Homebrew PCBs

>Let's say you have a part - an IC socket, some traces run from the top pads,
>and some traces run from the bottom pads and some run from both.
>
>Normally, the hole would be thruplated creating a connection between both
>sides of the pad, but I don't have any kind of thruplating equipment.  So,
>How do you all compensate for this?

Back when I did not had my own through plating station I simply placed
an aditional Via apart from the IC socket and solderd some small wire
into it.

HTH

Markus