RE: How would you do this?

[Paul Gale]

Hi gyre,



Does the coax cable seem quite loose if you pull/wobble it around? Reason I
ask
is that in my house, the coax is laid between the blockwork and
plasterboard and
held in place with dabs of plaster making it impossible to pull out (or use
to
pull through other cables such as Cat5). May be difficult if not impossible
to
use the same route.



When I retro-flood wired my house with Cat5, I had to lift (or chop up) the
upstairs floorboards to be able to route cables from loft, down a central
cableway (in the back of a wardrobe), under the upstairs floorboards (with
loads
of new holes drilled in joists) and then poked down the downstairs walls
between
block and plasterboard. A very time consuming and messy job not to be
undertaken
lightly. You could also make use of waste pipes etc as these often have
space
around them where you can drop cables from roof to lower floor with only a
few
bits of chopping to be done with hammer and plasterboard saw!



You'll probably get many more responses asking this on UKHA_D as well.

Paul.



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Subject: [KAT5] How would you do this?



More from the newbie.

I've just been up in the loft... and lo and behold I have a co-ax cable
that
runs down into the lounge.

If the co-ax cable can make it, so can a cat5 cable, right?

The route it takes seems fairly tight... and fairly hard to get to... it is
in the furthest corner of the loft. Quite a squeeze.

Sooo... what's a foolproof way of getting a cat5 cable to take the same
route.

By foolproof, I mean that I don't end up with 20' of useless co-ax cable
downstairs, 20' of cat5 cable upstairs, and a small hole with no cable in
it
and no way of re-using the hole :)

Thx! :)

-- gyre --