[plug] wiring a house

[Ari Finander]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Holland" <myk.list at westnet.com.au>
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] wiring a house
> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:08:23 +0800
> 
> 
> 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.

That does not sound like fun.

>    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.

That's how they do it now, or that's how they did it back in 76/77?

>    The solution is to drop the cables from the ceiling into a wardrobe
> or other cupboard. (late 70s - has built-ins?)

No, unfortunately they are not built in: add on wall cupboards.

> Or discretely behind a door in the corner. Just remember to get beige
> cables, not blue :-)

Dangling cables...hmmm...perhaps trying to beef up the dodgy wireless would be better?

> 
>    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.
> 
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