Re: momentary push switches/LD11

["graham_howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>]

> I started out by getting an electrician to do the wiring for me -
got
> a lot of tips from watching him. To re-wire new spot lights into the
> living room he drilled all the holes first (using a small drill to
> check there were no joists above first). He then pushed all the
wires
> back along the joist spaces as far as he could - he bent the wire
> ends and hooked them over the end of a piece of plastic cable
trunking.
> He only had to open up a small slot in the floor above to access all
> these cables which he either joined up or routed through a small
hole
> drilled through each joist. The hardest bit was cutting the slot in
> the floor above to gain access - it needed a circular saw set to the
> right depth. He did the whole room (11 spots and 2 wall lights) in
> half a day.
>
> It may have been easier for me though as I have a set of small
> narrow rooms/pantries etc that run along the back wall of the
> house - ideal for stacks of AV and HA stuff. But the lesson I
> learned was that I was right not to be scared to go the whole
> distance rather than looking to settle for switch replacements
> and socket rockets.
>
The problem I have is that this is a very old house, the floors, wall
and ceilings are not standard, nor even consistent. In some areas I
have pretty standard plasterboard-on-timber-frame walls, but many are
lath and 'plaster' (horse hair and shit) and some are 2-3 foot thick
stone. Floors are a mixture of concrete, centuries old floor boards,
hard board and chip board. Ceilings are a mixture of plaster and
plaster board, lath and plaster and some stuff that is bulging so
much that I daren't take the paper off to find out exactly what it is.

However, despite all this, I am a cable junkie. My brief flirtations
with a wireless alarm and the current wireless network have proved
that physical connections are the only way I can transmit anything
realiably in my house. The 12 empty CAT5 boxes and 6 empty CT100
reels and 4 empty Speaker cable reels will soon be joined by at least
10 empty T&E reels. But I will have a 21st century house that just
happended to be built in the 16th century.

Graham