sabregen
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Guys and Gals. "Okay, here's the situation, my parents went away for a weeks vacation. They left the keys..." Wait, that's not my life. /Reset
My wife and I bought a home last October. We were originally looking at having one built with all of the options that we chose, but a pre-existing home to someone else's spec came up for sale when the original buyers backed out, so we snapped it up. In the house that were were going to have built, I had negotiated to show up during the framing portion, after all the electrical was in, to run my own cables, but that went out the window whn we bought the spec home. So, we have a 2 story house, almost 2500 square feet, and computers all over the place. I currently am running a wireless bridge between the upstairs and downstairs connected devices.
The problem is, of course, that I've always hated wireless, and have no intention of continuing to use wireless, as I am building out an HTPC and busy converting all of my HD-DVD's to .MKV contained files for playback over the network. Long story short, screw wireless.
I am completely capable of running cable in normal single story environments, punching down cables, etc. My personal issue is in the multiple story house scenario, and trying to find a good way to run cables to all rooms in the house. I do have attic space, but no crawl space, and no basement. My computer room is on the upper level of the house. There's 4 upstairs bedrooms, a downstairs office, and the living room where the current DD-WRT wireless bridge is.
I just am not sure how best to run the cables from floor to floor, and doing it externally, surface mounted with cable retention mechanisms is against the home owners association rules, which is fine because It'd be pretty ugly. I know I'll need a fish tape to do this. The upstairs room solution is pretty obvious, go vertically up through the wall in the computer room into the attic space, run the cables to where they need to go, then drop then down into the rooms, punch them into the back of a wall plate, done. However, I know that I will have to go through horizontal 2x4 cross beams to make it all the way through the wall. How can I accomplish this, or am I mistaken in that assumption? Most construction that I have seen of walls that are 8 feet high have a crossbeam at about chest level.
More concerning is how to get the cable downstairs without going external? I have done rough sketches of the layout of the upstairs and downstairs. They're not to scale, to be sure, but more of a reference to anyone that might be able to help me out. Thanks in advance.
Josh
Upstairs:
Downstairs:
My wife and I bought a home last October. We were originally looking at having one built with all of the options that we chose, but a pre-existing home to someone else's spec came up for sale when the original buyers backed out, so we snapped it up. In the house that were were going to have built, I had negotiated to show up during the framing portion, after all the electrical was in, to run my own cables, but that went out the window whn we bought the spec home. So, we have a 2 story house, almost 2500 square feet, and computers all over the place. I currently am running a wireless bridge between the upstairs and downstairs connected devices.
The problem is, of course, that I've always hated wireless, and have no intention of continuing to use wireless, as I am building out an HTPC and busy converting all of my HD-DVD's to .MKV contained files for playback over the network. Long story short, screw wireless.
I am completely capable of running cable in normal single story environments, punching down cables, etc. My personal issue is in the multiple story house scenario, and trying to find a good way to run cables to all rooms in the house. I do have attic space, but no crawl space, and no basement. My computer room is on the upper level of the house. There's 4 upstairs bedrooms, a downstairs office, and the living room where the current DD-WRT wireless bridge is.
I just am not sure how best to run the cables from floor to floor, and doing it externally, surface mounted with cable retention mechanisms is against the home owners association rules, which is fine because It'd be pretty ugly. I know I'll need a fish tape to do this. The upstairs room solution is pretty obvious, go vertically up through the wall in the computer room into the attic space, run the cables to where they need to go, then drop then down into the rooms, punch them into the back of a wall plate, done. However, I know that I will have to go through horizontal 2x4 cross beams to make it all the way through the wall. How can I accomplish this, or am I mistaken in that assumption? Most construction that I have seen of walls that are 8 feet high have a crossbeam at about chest level.
More concerning is how to get the cable downstairs without going external? I have done rough sketches of the layout of the upstairs and downstairs. They're not to scale, to be sure, but more of a reference to anyone that might be able to help me out. Thanks in advance.
Josh
Upstairs:
Downstairs: