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RE: back to basics - laying cables


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  • Subject: RE: back to basics - laying cables
  • From: "James Hoye" <james.hoye@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:43:10 +0100
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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.

 

/me thinks you don't have enough CAT5 there dude ;)

 

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?

 

<plug mode="blatant">Have a look at http://www.home-automation.info/ for some information.</plug>

 

Having the right tools for the job certainly makes life much easier.  I'd recommend an SDS Plus drill with rotary stop, a back box sinker and SDS chisels.  Much easier - I recently had to channel two short runs (6 inches) from the floor to back box to accommodate some more CAT5.  It took about 5 mins to mark, drill and chisel out a channel that would take the conduit.

 

James H


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