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| BadMouth:
As a renter of my current house I drilled a bunch of holes in the hardwood floors to poke whatever cables I wanted into each room. (Landlord said he didn't care how big of holes or how many...wish he hadn't said that now) Now as the owner of the house, I want to repair the hardwood floors and find other methods. :-[ I had a powered amp/splitter for antenna tv, HDMI, and a gigabit switch for Ethernet. I liked having HDMI distributed. I live by myself, so I can get away with only renting one cable box (and only during football season because I'm cheap). It's also nice to be able to watch something while moving around various rooms in the house. I have three RF remotes around the house with an IR blaster in the living room. I'm currently leaning toward conduit large enough to pass an HDMI cable going to a blank box. Anyways, I figure the people here are probably more wired than the average joe. So how are you set up? |
| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on April 21, 2015, 09:58:46 am ---As a renter of my current house I drilled a bunch of holes in the hardwood floors to poke whatever cables I wanted into each room. (Landlord said he didn't care how big of holes or how many...wish he hadn't said that now) Now as the owner of the house, I want to repair the hardwood floors and find other methods. :-[ I had a powered amp/splitter for antenna tv, HDMI, and a gigabit switch for Ethernet. I liked having HDMI distributed. I live by myself, so I can get away with only renting one cable box (and only during football season because I'm cheap). It's also nice to be able to watch something while moving around various rooms in the house. I have three RF remotes around the house with an IR blaster in the living room. I'm currently leaning toward conduit large enough to pass an HDMI cable going to a blank box. Anyways, I figure the people here are probably more wired than the average joe. So how are you set up? --- End quote --- I have a single story home, so it's easy. I run everything through the attic, making drops down into closets, and putting wall ports in by making pass-throughs from one side of the closet wall to the other. There's only one instance where I had to use raceway coming down from the ceiling, but it's in our home gym and so it's not a big deal. When I remodeled my family room, I was able to cut up the walls to run cables before I refinished them, so those are completely hidden. |
| BadMouth:
I was looking at large conduit, but I'd have to cut open the walls. Now I'm leaning toward low voltage open back boxes and a hole in the bottom plate drilled from underneath. (and the wires just loose inside the wall, assuming my interior walls aren't insulated) Half assed, but probably easier to run wires and will look the same in the end. Paired with a bulk wire face plate, it should be just as functional as a 3/4" hole in the floor. |
| eds1275:
My house is 2 story, the lower level being half in ground. When I moved in, it was unfinished down there. Looking up, you could see the rows of nails where the wall baseplates were attached, so it was easy to know where to drill. I installed a Leviton Structured Media box in one room where the telephone and cable was connected to the house, and from there just ran wires to everything. Everything just goes to the big patch bay for coax, ethernet, and telephone lines and I can move stuff around if I need to. Which I don't because I bought a box big enough for everything. But once I put in the new shed, I may need to take say the guest room off the system to run stuff out there. All the cables just run to the open back low voltage boxes and are zap strapped together and latched on to whatever stud was closest although I feel that part wasn't nessasary. |
| jdbailey1206:
I wish I was as structured as eds. I have simply ran coax, phone and ethernet from the spot where they originate to each room. Mind you I have ran everything from my basement to a wall port to each room. I only have one phone port because we run a dsl modem for our internet (Welcome to farm country). I would recommend doing wall plates and not worry about conduit. For as much as technology changes it is easier to use these in bulk and run everything at least 2" away from any electrical and doing quick wall fishes to wall plates. As for your floor 'problem' I would just use the same size dowel from the Depot and stain it the same color as the floor and call it good. The holes are behind the tv so no one will notice. |
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