Residentail wiring 3

[mikeydidit]

I am trying to help a friend wire his new home and need some help. I will be installing a wireless network for his computers and video cameras. I would like to setup a comm closet for him with and extend the demark for phone service. I would also like to set this up so that I can just plug in whatever jacks need to be active.

Any suggestions or how too's are welcome.
As always, thanks for your help.



Mikey

 

[franklin97355]

Try Panduit's and Siemon's sites. They have lots of helpful pictures and good product.

 

[MarvO1]

I just wired my new home, and have a few items for you.
Hopefully your friend's new home is still under construction so that you can pull any cables that is needed before walls go in. Time it for just after the electrical contractor is finished.
I used my mechanical room for my central location and pulled home-run cables for:
Security system
Phone system
LAN system
Cable TV
Stereo speaker system
And a few camera locations.
I then installed open conduit from my entertainment center to the mechanical room to allow for any future technology that may come along.
I terminated the home runs on BIX blocks for the LAN and phone system, then to patch panels.
Audio and cameras are on some homemade jack panels.
Everything is working great thanks to planning ahead.
My cable system is still kind of messy until I get a chance to make it pretty with something still undecided.



MarvO said it

 

[skip555]

if it were me I would pull two cat 5e cables and a coax catv to at least one location in every room

evan though you are planning a wireless network It wont hurt to have the cable there in case you ever need it and it will add value to the home at resale time

 

[AvayaNovice]

Here's a real helpful tip...

If you can, try and homerun every jack to the wiring closet using smurf tube (blue plastic flexible conduit) which will allow you to put WHATEVER kind of cable in down the road if you need it.

If home running every jack with smurf tube is a problem, find a few places in each area of the house that you can home run your smurf tube to. From there, install PVC conduit from that area back to your main wiring closet. This will save you so much trouble in the future. You can pull out and install whatever kind of cable you want at any time, no fishing, no nothing. Very easy, and not too expensive.

Make sure to run pull string through each conduit with your wire to allow zero interruption cable additions.

Also, if you can, use mud rings instead of gang boxes. Easier to terminate cable, more room to work with.

 

[mikeydidit]

Thanks guys. It looks like the main problem that I will have is this is a old 8600 square feet home. I am sure that firestops will be EVERYWHERE lol. I do need some way to lay out the video and audio cables. Have any in mind that make for a good installation.

Thanks


Mikey

 

[AvayaNovice]

Layout? What do you mean by layout.

Like to support it?

I'm telling you... run smurf tube everywhere if you can, it will make that place so much more easy to work with and upgradable YEARS down the road...

 

[mikeydidit]

By lay out. I mean some sort of patch panels for audio and video?? I havent done much with that and really dont know much about it.


Mikey

 

[AvayaNovice]

How many data, phone, and video terminations do you plan on having?

 

[jacassc]

Is this "new home" as in being presently constructed or as in newly purchased by your friend?

 

[mikeydidit]

Well guys I actually got to look at it yesterday and it is ugly. I dont beleive I can fish anything down the walls. The telephone cabling that is in place is old 25 pair cables that the heads have been cut off and the w/bl used on single jacks. This is an older house (a monster 8600') I may need a map to find my way back out of it.LOL. Their is a old 1A key system in the attic. I am planning on removing the old key system and punching down all the 25 pairs on new 66 blocks. For network I dont beleive I have any choise but wireless. Where most of the 25 pair cables come up stairs in the attic there may be an opening about 2 feet or less. I did learn from this from your relies and will keep those thoughts in mind for the next new one I get to do. Thanks everyone for your help.


Mikey

 

[AvayaNovice]

Ahhh NOT new construction. That changes things.

 

[Bobg1]

In a lot of houses the interior walls are hollow.
In most cases this makes it quite easy to fish wires through.
Outside walls on the other hand are ussually a big big pain.

 

[TouchToneTommy]

You could TRY to use some spare pairs in the 25-pair cable and run 10-Base-T. After all, that's what 10-B-T was designed to run on.

 

[falcon771]

Where can someone get the "Smurf Tube" AvayaNovice mentioned?

 

[DToolsDesigner]

Home Depot carries it, it is actually called ENT, Electrical Non-Metallic Tubing.
Otherwise any electrical supply house would have it.
You can get it in 10' lengths ot 100' rolls.

Richard S. Anderson, RCDD

http://www.servamatic.net

 

[JBeav]

Is there anyway to post pictures in this forum?

Jeff

 

[franklin97355]

Most people put the pictures on a website and point to that.

 

[skip555]

if you click on the preveiw post it will give you the code as follows scroll down til you see

To include an image in your post:

 

[JBeav]

I'll check it out.
Thanks,
Jeff