RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] home rewiring: the next to final chapter?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Matt Ross wrote:
>
> > [jking wrote]
> >
> >   http://www.missouri.edu/~kingjw/wiring.html
>
> Any objections to boring holes through the support beams?  Of course,
> I'm going off how they wired my house originally, this may be a very
> bad idea. Check with someone with sense before taking my advice.

Um...guess I wasn't clear on this.  The stuff you see here is the "before"
pictures, indeed, before I had to take out the ceiling too.  The wiring
I put in was indeed in the ceiling space, and consisted of many carefully
placed holes in the joists.  And a couple of less carefully placed holes,
for that matter. :-)

> > At the moment, it looks like I can do the faceplates in the various
> > rooms for surprisingly cheap using either Panduit or Hubbell stuff,
> > and nothing beats a TV splitter for the low cost cable TV
> > distribution solution, but I'm less than sure about phones.
>
> Those wall sockets are a lot easier to do than the plugs.  The ones
> I've seen (at Lowes) snap together, rather than needing any special
> tool.

You mean the leviton stuff?

> > Oh yeah: a simple question.  How long a "tail" should I leave coming
> > out of the boxes before the drywall dudes come in?  I've got very
> > very very long tails now, since I didn't want to screw up in the
> > other direction, but I don't want stuff to get in the way...
>
> As much as you can stuff into the box.

Yes, it looks like I'll be doing some trimming...I'll have enough left
over to make many nice short patch cables. :-)

jking


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