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RE: best method for cabling



As you say, conduit looks very ugly. I've recently (with the help of several from this group) retrofitted CAT5 through most of a 90s, brick and block house, with plasterboard walls. In bedrooms with fitted wardrobes, we've allowed conduit to run down INSIDE the wardrobes.

When you say "brand new", do you mean "finished" or "still partway through construction"?

Internally, we've dropped inside the stud walls as you say. Takes a bit of fiddling on a retrofit, which is therefore much more labour-intensive - should be much easier on a new build if you can get in at "first fix" stage.

Couple of building terms:

- First fix: laying cables and pipes before walls get put up around them
- Second fix: putting sockets, taps, etc onto cables and pipes once the walls are up

Actually - thinking about it - James/Phil - do you have piccies of the wiring in progress at my house... might be worth adding to my new website ;-)



-----Original Message-----
From: siu98pd [mailto:siu98pd@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 April 2002 14:30
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: [ukha_d] best method for cabling


What would be the best way to cable the entire house with the said
recommendations?

The job will be easier because the house is completely brand new. I would
have liked the cable to be completely hidden, ie. inside studded walls or
in channeling in the plaster.

I gues the most obvious way is to cable using a conduit or other housing
but doesn't this look ugly?

Pankaj.



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