It’s been a long day at work. You’re tired, and you want to push back, pop a cold one and watch some Netflix, perhaps. Just as you make it past the opening titles, your TV switches off. You go to check what’s wrong and see the TV power cable damaged due to your drywall. A leading cause of why this happened is an absence of a cable grommet for drywall. To understand what a cable grommet for drywall is, first off, drywalls are walls made of plasterboard, wallboard, sheetrock, gypsum board, buster board, custard board, or gypsum panel. Any wall that is made from any of these materials comes under the category of drywalls. 

A grommet is an eyelet that is used as protection for cables and wires to go through metal and other materials that might have rough edges. This can be damaging for the wires and the cables as it ruins the integrity of electrical transmission. This leads to wires being cut and resulting in the entire device malfunctioning. Cable grommets are especially important if you have wires passing through drywall that have substantial movement. An example of this would be if you were to move your gaming consoles all over the room. 

There is a high likeliness that the wires brush against the rough surfaces of the hole. This would most likely tear up the rubber of the wire. Cable grommets eliminate this problem by serving as protection in between the wall and the wire or cables. They can also be used on computer desks and are often found in corporate work environments. Employees working with computer systems have a lot of wires running around. The cable desk grommet channels all the wires safely into the desk without having the wires brush against the rough desk edges.