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Re: Conduit to run cable outside



On Wednesday 02 January 2002 18:20 pm, James Hoye wrote:
> Well, I ran some 20mm galvanised steel conduit from the barge board
(access
> to lft) to about a foot above ground level (access to back of newly
fitted

<snip>

> sod because it's about 5m in length (no bends thankfully) and I had to
feed
> the bundle of CAT5s down a few inches at a time on my own.
>
> Of course, 20mm conduit restricts you to at maximum 4 x CAT5 (fewer if
it
> has bends, believe me), and you need a special threading (as possibly
> bending) tool.  It looks OK though.  Mark Harrison has used
ventilation
> ducting (bathroom/kitchen extractor fan stuf) and you can get LOTS of
CAT5
> in it :)

Or you could run loads of cat5 in your wall cavities, as I have done, see
http://www.smgsystems.co.uk/ha/
for more details.

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