Re: The Most Cabled House in Britian?

["Alan Shields" <alan@xxxxxxx>]

I live in a listed house, I don't have quite as much cable as this:

about 40 runs of cat 5,

5 of coax for tv distribution

plus the alarm cable for comfort.

 

I was a little bit worried about the listed aspect but when I contacted the planning office prior to having the house rewired I was told it should be treated more or less as normal, - it IS normal to run plenty of cat 5 isn't it? ;)

 

Anyway you can't see any of it now unless you open the cupboard at node 0.

 

Alan Shields
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----- Original Message -----

From: Simon Coates

To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 10:29 PM

Subject: Re: [ukha_d] The Most Cabled House in Britian?

Graham

 

I've just used Cat5 for structured wiring (which includes Keith's KAT5).  Then the rest is as follows:

 

Futronix switch plates - 4 core screened (can't use Cat 5 - must be screened)

Occupancy PIRs - 4 core screened (can't use Cat 5 - must be screened)

Comfort - 8 core screened (can't really use Cat 5 - should be screened)

GJD PIRs - 6 core alarm cable (could use Cat 5 I suppose)

DS18S20 - 6 core alarm cable (Craig doesn't recommend Cat 5 cable)

Curtain Control - 4/6 core alarm cable (could use Cat 5 I suppose)

Other sensors/switches - 4/6 core alarm cable

 

Did you have any problems with your local planning office - since your house must be listed and you've run so much cable???

 

Simon

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Graham Howe

To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Sent: 16 October 2001 20:48

Subject: RE: [ukha_d] The Most Cabled House in Britian?

I use CAT5 for all my alarm stuff except for comfort keypads and door phone. I also use unshielded CAT5 for CCTV with no real problems at all. The only other cable I use is speaker wire and CT100. As I said to Mark earlier, I may well go for the title of the most cabled 17th century house (about 5/6 km in total).

 

Graham

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Coates [mailto:ecolume@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 October 2001 20:02
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: Re: [ukha_d] The Most Cabled House in Britian?

That's a hell of a lot of Cat5!  Someone's going to be busy punching all those connections.  An average run of Cat5 is around 15m - so that's 400 runs with 800 ends to make off.  That's over a week's work!

 

But Cat5 isn't suitable for all HA wiring.  I've installed lots of 4 and 6 core alarm cable, and lots of 4 and 8 core screened cable.  I'll probably have close to 6000m of signal cabling when I'm finished but it won't all be Cat5 - so I can't be a contender for your competition! You're a 'Cableist' you are! :o)

 

Grrrr....

 

 

Simon

(PS. Does it count if I throw a few thousand meters of Cat5 in the cellar to win - or do I have to make the ends off and use the cable?)

 

 

 

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Mark McCall

To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Sent: 16 October 2001 15:29

Subject: [ukha_d] The Most Cabled House in Britian?

Is this the most CAT5 cable in any UK house? Tracey Gardner has run over 7 Kms (yes Kilometres) of CAT5 in his new house!! For our US readers that's a bit under four miles! Is this a record?

 

Check out the pics from the NEWS page.

 

M.

 

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