...is not easy but can be done.
Our home was built in 1995. It was long before structured wiring was the norm. I pulled the wire in my last house, which was built in 1961 and I really enjoyed the results. So I thought "How bad could it be". But I quickly starting having questions that I was not able to answer. The last house was a ranch with a crawlspace...very easy. However, this house is 3 stories with the 3rd story partially finished. I needed to find a channel that I could pass all the cabling from the second story. I ended up hiring some home theater installers to help me pull (2) Cat5e and (2) Coax to every room in the house to a large hole in the wall in the front hall closet where I finished off everything in a panel. We also pulled all new wiring for an old intercom system that I upgraded. We also added 3 new intercom locations in the process. All-in-all the project went well. We were able to pull all the wiring in about 12 hours. I was paying them by the hour. I was able to get everything up and running now and I recently upgraded the punch down from 12 Ethernet ports to 24 Ethernet ports.
If you have any questions about the process and any decisions we had to make, let me know.
Our home was built in 1995. It was long before structured wiring was the norm. I pulled the wire in my last house, which was built in 1961 and I really enjoyed the results. So I thought "How bad could it be". But I quickly starting having questions that I was not able to answer. The last house was a ranch with a crawlspace...very easy. However, this house is 3 stories with the 3rd story partially finished. I needed to find a channel that I could pass all the cabling from the second story. I ended up hiring some home theater installers to help me pull (2) Cat5e and (2) Coax to every room in the house to a large hole in the wall in the front hall closet where I finished off everything in a panel. We also pulled all new wiring for an old intercom system that I upgraded. We also added 3 new intercom locations in the process. All-in-all the project went well. We were able to pull all the wiring in about 12 hours. I was paying them by the hour. I was able to get everything up and running now and I recently upgraded the punch down from 12 Ethernet ports to 24 Ethernet ports.
If you have any questions about the process and any decisions we had to make, let me know.
My husband has recently started a similar endeavor in our split level townhouse. Our living room (which he's wiring for a surround sound system) has a crawlspace underneath, so since you said your ranch was very easy, maybe you can help us out!
ReplyDeleteHe's successfully used a "Greenlee 12-04-72A D'VersiBIT Type A Auger Bit, 3/4 by 72-Inch" to drill holes within the wall to make channels the speaker wires can go through, but when he go to the back wall of our living room, he ran into about an 8 inch block. He's not sure if it's wood, or a fireblock, or what. Have you encountered anything like this? Any words of advice for us?
Thanks!
Your project is probably long over by now. Sorry for the delay in the response. We only ran into one location where we hit some blocking in a wall. We ended up removing a small amount of drywall to make sure there was nothing else going through the blocking that we could damage. Turns out there was not anything so we sent the auger through it no problem. It was only a 2x4. How did the project turn out?
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