RE: back to basics - laying cables

["Alex Monaghan" <alex@xxxxxxx>]

Your best option (but most work) is to sink necessary back boxes and channels into the wall, fit your desired cables (keeping necessary distance between data & power) and then plaster the whole lot flat again and fit the face plates (or decorate & then fit the plates - we're making the mess through the whole house and then decorating later)

 

Easy option is to get some simple trunking (screwfix / tlc etc... will have this available) and lay it on the surface (there's even some self adhesive stuff).

 

I'm going for option A, but it's hard work even with an SDS drill & chisel (although much easier with the SDS than my old drill), but looks far nicer - if you have a SWMBO then you may not get away with surface mounted cables.

-----Original Message-----
From: TAWN Jonathan [mailto:jonathan.tawn@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 03 July 2002 12:16
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] back to basics - laying cables

Hi…

 

Ok – I’m going to start the slow process of re-decorating my house (mid-terace brick built)

 

I want to lay a quantity of cable around my house – to a small cupboard in the storeroom/soon to be office /box room…

 

However, the partition walls in my house are brick.. not the conventional stud (they are all supporting walls)

 

I want to lay 8 cat 5’s in the front room.

4x in the dining room / dining kitchen

4 in the master bed room

4 in the spare room

and back to node 0 – the box room.

 

I also want to lay some more power cables + some speaker jack-points on the walls.

 

How do I go about laying the cable? – I presume I don’t just lay the cable on the wall and then plaster over it?

 

Is there a trunking product or conduit available for me to adhere to the wall, to drop my cables down?

 

Any help really appreciated

 

Regards,

 

Jonathan.

 

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