[plug] wiring a house

[Mike Holland]

Ari Finander wrote:

> ng at spending? and 2) if I go with my wife's DIY spirit and try and do thi=
> s ourselves, are there any good guides to doing this in the double brick an=
> d tile sorts of homes built in Perth in the late 70's?

The good news is that you have a nice roof-space to run the cables.
The bad news is that its really hard to drop them through brick walls.
   To get down the gap between the double-bricks of the outer wall,
you need to get up on a ladder and remove roof tiles.
   The inner walls almost certainly have no conduits, so you need to
gouge a hole from ceiling to outlet, put in cable, fill, plaster
and paint. Thats how they build 'em.
   The solution is to drop the cables from the ceiling into a wardrobe
or other cupboard. (late 70s - has built-ins?)
Or discretely behind a door in the corner. Just remember to get beige
cables, not blue :-)

   I found it useful to run a length of that black "poly-pipe" (sold
for water-reticulation) from the study wardrobe, through the ceiling,
to the central linen cupboard. It makes a good conduit for phone, 
ethernet, coax and audio cables.