Running cable through modern house

[SeanT]

My TV downstairs isn't being moved whilst we are here (it's surrounded by a painted contrast coloured border and hung on the wall with half an av stockists supply of cable buried behind it) - but when my daughter moves out of a cot into a single bed and therefore different bedroom and my wife's study moves into the guest room I'd have a lot of outlet plates in really stupid positions all over the walls - the way I have done it I can just cut the connectors off and poke the cables back down under the floor, and/or have the floorboards up and pull them back or extend to somewhere else. Like I said, in the next house I'll do it all properly as I'll be planning to be there longer. The point is it's not technically inferior to do it all this way, and can still look neat if it's all hidden by what it's supplying anyway.

 

[Softus]

I do data wiring and IT for a living, and don't see a problem with it, in fact it's good to eliminate the frankly rubbish krone connections on all but the most expensive socketry, and the silly patch cables hanging out of the wall behind each pc / router / switch when they could just originate from under the floorboards and through a notch out of the carpet gripper

In that case you should be sacked. Data and coaxial cable emerging from the floor is not properly protected from damage, and at best looks amateurish.

...it's unlikely that the next person to live here (not staying in a three bed mid-terrace forever) would have 7 PCs, 5 TVs, 3 wireless routers, an internet connection in the shed, all their cat 5 run to a box in the small bedroom and a server in the cupboard under the stairs, so why spend the money making the infrastructure for this permanent.

Because permanent is more robust, that's why.

 

[disinfo]

I've networked my home recently,

double socket in living room

double socket in front bedroom

double socket in rear bedroom

All terminated to a proper CAT6 patch panel in the loft, then patch cables running to switch and router.

I found it easier to run external grade cable and neatly pin it outside the house.

I would never terminate to an RJ-45 plug, apart from anything, you'd end up changing them every few months when the clip breaks.

 

[SeanT]

In that case you should be sacked. Data and coaxial cable emerging from the floor is not properly protected from damage, and at best looks amateurish.

I'll send you over my manager's email address
Seriously, I wouldn't do it in anyone else's home, or whilst at work (other than in trunking, for a charity, for free, iirc)