Installing Home Network Wiring in a Friend's New Build House - An In-Depth Look

today's video has been in the works for quite some time and yep it's another networking stall now obviously this is my own house this is my friend's house but yeah probably a year ago something something like that my friend bought a new build house and since he did that i was i kept saying right i'll come in and saw the network coming it's all network never got around to it so finally doing it now and you have been kind of on tour as well because this is about over 200 miles away from home so yeah i've literally traveled all this distance to the stall network but i'm really looking forward to it because it's going to be quite a fun project where we're actually running quite a lot of cables through the building and doing a full-on install so yeah this is definitely a very long video but what i want to do with this is go into a lot of detail showing all the hardware we're using how we're running all the cables talking about all the logic behind why we're doing certain things and all that sort of stuff so it's gonna be a very long video but we're gonna go into a lot of detail and really try and show us our my methodology for wiring us at the new build house also if you hear any background noise in this video it's because i'm currently dog sitting this adorable boy as well so yeah yep very flattering big one yeah so you might make an appearance throughout the video as well or causing absolute chaos when if we get into something and it's a tool or something so yes it's gonna be interesting trying to do construction work around someone who's gonna try and eat everything that i've laid down but yeah yeah it's very good boy so of course i'll show the dog if there's a dog in the vicinity when i'm filming um but yeah so as you can see there's already sort of what looks like a sort of network installed but realistically this is all temporary so what we'll do is we'll take a look at what's already in place which is really just what came with the house and they will talk about what we're going to be doing so here we have the cupboard under the stairs and this is basically the same sort of setup you see in almost every new build house in the uk and that's where you have a fiber ont this case from open reach and the only cable coming into the property is a piece of fiber and it's cheap on fiber network so that comes into this omt here and this provides gigabit fiber of course you can have really any speed over that that you want not everyone will pay for gigabit but the connection here is actually gigabit here's why we want decent wire cabling and then what the builders provide it relates a couple of runs and for this house has more than i've seen in others where basically you've got a cat 5 run to the upstairs bedroom a cat 5 run for living room and a phone extension also goes to the living room and the idea behind this really isn't to really like have kit in the cupboard and link it to all the rooms it's really so what you would do is you plug your like ont into one of these ports to say run the connection when you went to the living room and you just put your isps provided rooter in the living room quite often or you may put the router in the cupboard but you've only got the two runs and then for the phone point the way this works is they no longer deliver copper phone lines to the property and interestingly this ont doesn't even have a phone point on it the the older ones did but this one doesn't so i think the way the phone service works is you'll use your isp provided router and it'll have a phone point on it and it'll do vibe and you'll run a cable from that router into this point here and that can end up your phone extensions however obviously this isn't really enough for what we're trying to do here in a certain modern house because there's a rental living room but it goes behind the couch in a really inconvenient place and there's a run to the upstairs bedroom but it's a master bedroom where you're not going to want like an office so these aren't really actually that useful so the plan is to install a lot more cabling into this cupboard as well as using the existing stuff so what we're going to do is we're gonna run five more cat sex runs to upstairs that'll give us two ports in the office two ports in the spare bedroom and we'll just keep the existing port in the master bedroom because that's fine and we'll also have one for the upstairs access point we're also going to install four more ports just to the right of the cupboard covered here where we have the tv because current there's nothing for the tv set up here so we're going to put four ports in here just allow all the tv stuff to be connected so that will also connect up and run into the cupboard and then for the existing cables we may as well reuse them because there's no we may as well use these because there's no point taking them out or anything but we'll replace all the jacks with new ones and what i think i'll probably do is try and take the cables out of this and bring them up into the same trunk we'll be installing later that you'll see in a minute and bring it all into the rack for a patch panel so we will use these existing runs just to maybe as well keep them in place but they're not hugely useful additionally i mentioned there's this phone run phone line we don't need that no one's gonna want an analog phone extension really but this is just wiring cat5e along with everything else so what i'll do is i'll replace the module on both ends with an rg45 module so this just acts as an extra an extra network run to the living room so both these ports the same media panel in the living room that we'll show in a minute and that will just give us the two network ports on that so that's that's fine so yeah that's really what's already installed so we'll now do it we'll take a look at the media panel and then upstairs and we'll come back and take a look what we're installing how we're gonna install additional cabling so here we are at the other side of the living room behind the couch and here's the media panel and these are very common in all sorts of new build houses in the uk and they always put them in the place you don't actually want your tv to be so this is actually like basically useless but what you have here if you have an aerial connection that goes up the attic there's no way you'll provide you but they just run the coax for you there's an rg45 connection that's the other end of that runs the whole cupboard that was labeled with an l and then we have the phone extension here which the module's missing i think yeah that needs fixed but as you can see here that's just cat5e so what we'll do is we'll basically replace both of these with new rg45 modules and have a pair of network points here just because we can really so here we are in the upstairs bedroom and as i mentioned there's a single network ports this is the master bedroom halfway up a wall it's not very useful at all i think so you could have maybe a tv on a stand here but it's right next to the door so why would you want that i don't know but we've got an 45 network port here and another aerial connection so as i mentioned before we're just going to keep this i'll replace the module with a new one because we're using quite nice modules and i'll replace this euro module faceplate because it's cracked but yeah we're going to keep this port here just because it may as well be used at some point but yeah we'll replace the module and the face plate as well so that was a look at what the house came with but if you're fairly observant or you know not remotely observant fairly obvious there is already some sort of stuff here that's already been put in but this is all very temporary set up so we have this cabinet here we got this cabinet literally for this project but it's just obviously my friend just put some kit in it now just to you know use it because obviously you have the cabinet sitting around but we'll be taking all this out and installing all the structure cabling into a patch panel in this cabinet now you'll also notice there's already a couple of holes with some cables running through it now these are just very much temporary runs they're just patch leads with rg45 on each end and there's two that go that go through the wall there and come out there to serve the tv and then there's like three more here that go up through to upstairs just to serve some stuff in the office just to provide a temporary connection but basically what this shows is my friend's already gone and figured out the cable route and it's actually going to be quite good so we'll take a look at what we have downstairs first now for the tv it's dead easy there's just a big void under the stairs here so that wall is just a big empty void that comes out here so that'll be dead easy just to put whatever report we want whatever we want it here and run the cables directly through that void and pop them out into the cupboard and for upstairs isn't too bad either this is the underside of the stairs and in the side here basically you've got that wood is the side of the stairs but there's this big gap here and it's quite a deep gap like that is a deep gap there and that runs through here all the way up to basically upstairs now there's a big bit timber roughly in line with the top of this door frame and also there'll be another bit timber in line with the ceiling so we'll have to cut the wall out and try and like drill through holes and re-patch it all but what we can do is we run all the cables from up front at least from under the floor upstairs down through the wall here down through the side of the stairs and bring them out on this face here and the plan is to actually install flexible conduit so what i'm going to do is run flexible conduit from here through this wall through to under the floor upstairs we'll go upstairs in a second and take a look at what we have up there but we'll then bring it up from under the floor upstairs through an upstairs wall and then through a cupboard and get all the cables up to the attic and then once we're in the attic it's very easy to drop down to all the rooms and by installing flexible conduit it means that we can very easily pull new cables in and replace them over time if you know what coax brought in they can do that they want fiber they can do that they just replace the cap six it can be done it'll be really really cool to have flexible conduit installed and it's something i've not done before so i'm really looking forward to trying that out so yeah we'll have the flex because it will come from down from upstairs through this wall we'll patch all these holes up and it'll pop out on this face the wall under the stairs what i'm going to do is install a big dado trunking it's going to come along here they keep like conduit will come out come out inside the trunking the trunking will then run along towards the back of the cupboard and then at the back of the cupboard we're going to hopefully bring these ports up and pull them out into the trunking as well if possible but it'll come onto the back here with a big bit of trunking that takes all the cables to the back of the cupboard what i'll also do is i'll install the vertical trunking on this wall here that comes up the wall and meets that trunk and it's going along the top in the vertical piece of trunking i'll then bring out the cables that are going through this cavity and feeding the tv and what i'll then do is on that piece of trunking that's vertical i'm going to install a brush plate and we can bring all the cables out of and into the cabinet and that should be a really neat setup and the plan will be to allow loads of slack on that cable create a big loop behind the cabinet so the cabinet can be easily pulled out to get in behind it because obviously we are kind of pushing the cabinet up against this equipment so if it ever needs to be serviced we need to be able to get the cabinet out so yeah that's planned here so yeah looks pretty easy so the plan is just yes around the cables in conjugate down that wall along the back and trunking and then down the side that side wall there hopefully now obviously this is very much dependent on whether it actually pans out that way and the roots work but i'm hopeful that's a decent solution so what i'll quickly do is we'll pop upstairs and take a look at what we've got upstairs basically what is immediately above here and we'll talk about how we're going to run the cables from under the floor upstairs to up into the attic and then what we'll do it'll take a look at the hardware installing so here we are upstairs and this is directly above that wall downstairs the cover is directly down here and those cables you saw earlier that were going up through that wall they're just popping out through the floor here just a very simple temporary install so the plan is to cut a hole in the floor here using that solid board access cutter i've used before someone's investigating and that will give us access to under the floor to help us get the conduit in what i then hope to be able to do is there's this bit of wall here what i'm hoping to do is cut the bottom of this wall out of the way patch it and then we can run the conduits through under the floor up into this wall and bring them up and because this corner this is this is within 150 ml of the corner of the room this is a safe wiring zone to run the cables in even though there's a light switch there already so that already makes a wiring zone but we can run the cabling through that and then i think rather than taking the conjure all the way up to the attic that would make it a bit tricky to roll cables and stuff we've got a cupboard here so if we go into this cupboard what we'll find is obviously we've got the wall in the cupboard here this is off the other side of that corner of the wall what i'm probably going to do at some point on this wall here i'm going to bring the cables and the conduit out the wall and have a bit of surface trunking that comes up through this cupboard and runs up and basically through up into the attic up there that means it's easier to roll cables through the trunking because you can kind of stand on the ground in the cupboard and feed rods down here rather than trying to do it in the attic and additionally this is quite a nice big upstairs cupboard so it could be useful you might at some point i wouldn't be surprised if you ever wanted to have equipment in this cupboard so having the ends of the conduits here is quite good because you could easily run additional runs into the cupboard itself rather than taking it all up in the attic so yeah that's basically the plan is run the conduits one of the floor up through that wall pop them out inside this cupboard and then run trunk and rest the way up the attic so yeah that's the plan but realistically until we actually install the cables and try it i can't say for sure whether that's going to work so that'll be the next the next thing to sort of try and figure out but yeah that's the plan let's go look at what harder i'll be installing so now that's the sort of plan out of the way let's go through all the stuff we'll be installing so obviously the first thing we have is a big cabinet and to be honest i don't actually know what this is we literally got this free um it's from the company well the company i work for obviously work has an office and the company in the office next door had moved out and i think there was like contractors in cleaning the office out or painting or redecorating or whatever and they found this to just be left behind new brand new inbox so i think they spoke to someone from our company and said oh do you want it so they came to me and said you want it and i was like well my friend can we hold it so we literally got this cabinet basically free it's been like left in a sort of vacated office so it's a very nice little cabinet it's hugely deep i don't know how many you that is maybe i could count it but pretty big someone's trying to sniff it and i think it's 550 deep so it's a big deep cabinet which is huge and we definitely wouldn't be able to wall mount it at this size but it works pretty well because in this cover it can sit right in the back and it's really solid so even though it is big we can very easily pile stuff on top of it and basically you store stuff on top of it really easily so yep that's a cabinet there and then at the top we've got the cables and stuff we've bought so here we have the cable this is our 305 meter of cat6 cable this is all solid core a lot more zero halogen cat6 cable and obviously when you're buying cats it's cable always make sure you get it from a reputable place because a lot of cat6 is copper cloud aluminium you really need to be solid copper so this is also a solid copper most of the stuff we bought here has been placed in the uk called comm tech direct and i think ultima's may be their own branders i mean you can buy it from other places as well but i think it's the comtech company has the ultimate brand and you can buy it from them or other places but it's a decent price and it seems pretty decent cable so 305 meters way more than we need but i wasn't sure if 100 meters would be quite enough especially for a bit allowing for future expansion and it was cheap enough that buying the big box made sense and the next thing we have is some flexicon so this again was from com tech i'll put all links in the description and i've got to bought some 25mm flexible conduit so we'll run two of these upstairs and that will let us run the cables in it that's much more capacity than we need i think really we can do everything we need in one of them but having the extra capacity make sense and i think i kind of didn't estimate how big 25 meters of flexible conduit is so yeah we've got a lot more than we need but yeah there's flexible conduit there so here we have more of the hardware installing and this is all around the faceplate and patch panel and stuff like that so for the euro module faceplates i've done my usual rule that i try and do and match the existing accessories that are here so all the existing electrical accessories sockets switches all that sort of stuff are deep from data from the data slimline product line which is basically the standard product line you're going to see in every uk new build house they're just a really cheap okay quality product so i've gone with these and that just means that they're next existing sockets they're the same shade of white the same sort of side profile same thickness and it just kind of matches and looks good the reason i do it is i feel it makes it look less like an addition the network doesn't look like it's been added after the fact if it all matches it looks original which is what i try and do so i've gone with these however i haven't gone for the data euro modules they're just a bit rubbish they don't have like a proper like label window and these don't look very good so i've gone with much nicer euro modules and that's these here which are again from the ultimate brand from contact direct now if you've seen the video of my flat you'll have seen that i really like using angled key angled euro modules where the network jacks are recessed at an angle so the cable comes out and points down the wall rather than protruding straight out into the room now in my flat i used ones from excel where you buy a keystone shutter so you have a shutter at the front that's got the angle the angled slot in the little you know sliding bit and then you have a keystone module that you put on the cable and click it into the shutter and it works well but it does mean that you have quite a deep assembly so it has gone quite a deep back box so when i saw these i bought them because i just wanted to try them out and see if they're decent alternatives to the excel ones because unlike the xl ones which yeah i need a keystone module this is just an all-in-one product so you basically have idc terminals on the back there's a little cap over it that'll that's covering it but i can't get that off but i'll show you i'll show termination on these later but you can just punch the wire straight down onto this without needing that separate keystone jack and then it's got a nice little cover that goes on to hold the cables in that clips in really securely space for a zip tie secure the cables in and it gives you a nice little angled jack at the front and it's got a proper labeling window as well so we can label these up so that's what i've gone for there and these do seem pretty nice they're maybe not as nicely built as the xl ones i used but being an all-in-one single part that's nice and shallow or relatively shallow compared to the xl one these do seem like quite a decent option next up we've got this which is just a sort of inline cable joiner it comes in a million different parts and this also raises up to cat6a but they do actually state this backwards compatible with cat6 and cat5 and it just seems like a really nice way of joining two cables in line so we'll try this out as well because i probably want to join those cables there through so if i end up doing that i'll be using these these seem like quite a nice solution because compared to ones i've used before they seem quite nice and thin they're not like a big chunky box so we'll try these out for every use for them and then we have the patch panel so as i did my own flat i've gone for a keystone patch panel i'm not going for the dual stacked one like i have but i've gone for one that i can replace the keystone jacks in and i think this is the way i like i'm going to go going forward if i've got the budget to get a better patch panel because what you do with this is you put the keystone jacks on the cable and then you can clip them in rather than having to punch them directly onto the patch panel this is quite nice because it means first of all you can actually mix and match the modules so even though everything here is just gonna be a regular rj45 module there's nothing stopping you putting say coax this phone lines hdmi that could all come to these ports which is quite nice you can also do things like say the modem for example or the ont sorry if i want the uplink from that to come to the patch panel i could put that all the way over to the right hand side and have all the structured cable into all the rooms on the left hand side you can kind of without having that and then you can blank off the ports that aren't used so it's not uninsured it's intuitive as to what ports are available so i quite like it but the main reason well the main i i wanted to use anyway but there's a particular reason why this will be why this will be very useful here and that is obviously because this cabinet is quite begging in the way if for some reason this did ever have to come out for example that that needed service or potentially even somebody needed to get into the consumer unit and needed more space in the cupboard it may be a case that the cabinet needs to come out now obviously if all the cables were terminated into the normal patch panel there's no way that patch panel is going to fit that hole on top of the cabinet so the keystone patch panel what you could do is you could take the patch panel out unclip all the modules from the back of it and then what you end up now with is a cable with all these little keystone modules on the end so that could easily be pulled out the top of the cabinet the cabinet could be totally pulled out the way whatever works being done in the cover can be done the keystone modules can be pushed back into the cabinet and clipped back into the patch panel so it makes it much easier to get the whole cabinet out of the way without having to actually re-terminate any connections so that's the other reason we're going for a keystone patch panel and yeah it seems pretty decent quality well the complaint is like it's got these little label areas but they're just literally a bit you could write on and i don't like writing on things in sharpie some nicer patch panels have like a bit you can actually put paper in behind the window but this will be fine we just need the numbers here so that'll do and it's also got nice tie points at the back so we can easily tie the wires on so they don't get tugged out so that's pretty good as well obviously we need keystone modules for this so i've just got maybe able to match the brand so just come with ultima ones just they look very basic i'll show them all you know how i actually use what they seem absolutely fine they're just standard tool-less kit keystone modules i like the tool this one's very easy to terminate basically push the wires in clip and line them up cut the excess off clip them together and then that works so we tapping these onto all the wires in the cupboard and clicking them into the patch panel so obviously for all the things here there's a lot more of them in a big box obviously i've got a bunch of blanks just to blank off the ones to keep some this keystone patch panel we're not using and as for other things we've got some flexicon grommets that will be going we'll be using them in a second so we're going to use them and we've got this cable sleeve so this is a big cable braid so it's just to sort of you know like one of those finger trap things that you can kind of like push in it expands out like it expands massively it's quite sure when i'm holding the camera in one hand because i've not got a tripod with me but yeah it expands massively so this is what we'll be using in this cupboard the cable will come out the trunking or yeah trunking it will run through this big braid in a big loop behind the cabinet and then come into the cabinet and it just means all the cables will be nicely inside this brace they won't be a big bundle of cables all getting tangled and look horrible it'll be one nice big thick braid coming out the wall which i think will look really really nice and finally over here we've got some patronus boxes so just standard appleby dry lining boxes standard you'd use i've gone before seven mil because realistically unless you're working a shallower wall i always just pay the extra few pence and buy the deeper box just because it's nicer so deeper box there and then we've got this click flame guard box now this is a fireproof drylighting box you may have seen me use this when i did my smart lcd control panel stuff where i use one of these but i'm not using this for any fire resistant property the reason i'm using this is because it's a dry landing box that has 25 ml knockouts so my plan for this is in the upstairs cupboard where we need to bring the flexible conduit up the cupboard bring the cables out of the wall and then up and trunking i'm going to put this in the wall terminate the flex will conjugate into the bottom of this using these glands so in the wall you'll have that and you have the flexible conduit coming out inside this box that will then be in the wall and i'll then install the trunking over it with a big hole cut out the back of the trunking so in the back of the trunking you'll have that hole in the wall where the cables then come out and it'll snake up and into the trunking it'll make more sense when i show it in person assuming it actually works but that's basically why i use these i've not used them for any sort of fire rating or anything like that i've just used them because they're dry lining boxes that allow for 25 mil grommets to go in but speaking of fire rating there's one fire rating i'm going to do and that is this high expansion intermediate sealant now this will be interesting to see what people's thoughts are because i don't i don't know if it's required but i may as well over engineer the solution rather than under engineer it and that is basically this cupboard here so this is also under the stairs and even though it doesn't seem to be part of the building regulations the nhbc regulation or nhbc's or requirements or quality checklist or whatever which is a sort of requirement that new new houses have to sort of adhere to to get the nhbc warranty they state that the underside of the stairs should be i think 30 minute fire rated which isn't much and i don't think this is actually fire rated plasterboard at all but i think it basically just means this has to have like you know i think even one layer of passport does count as a 30 minute fire barrier i think so if i'm going to be drilling into here i don't want to harm the fire integrity of this obviously these these holes already that i didn't put in but we'll get these all patched up but if i'm bringing the cables i probably don't want to really just have big holes because straight behind this plasterboard is wood and that wood's the stairs and what you don't want is you know something to catch fire you know all all this electrical stuff consumer unit all that sort of stuff and the fire to get through into the wooden stairs and then that's pretty bad so i bought this which is just intermediate sealant but this is high expansion stuff so this is rated for going around pipes you see there for um for fire stopping cables plastic pipes so the idea is that you can put this around a plastic pipe and it's high expansion so that if there is a fire this will expand so much that will actually crush the piping as it melts and seal the hole up so that's my plan with this is to use this so where the flexible conduit comes through the plasterboard into the trunking i'll be using this to seal around it just so that it maintains that fire barrier i don't know if this is required i imagine probably if this place was if this was done from new they probably wouldn't put this in but for the sake of a few pounds to buy something like this i thought i may as well just you know go belt and braces and put in the proper fire sealant so yeah that's out there and it's it's high expansion so it's not just normal intermediate sealant this will actually expand so it's designed for use around like a pipe so you can put it around the pipe and it'll expand and crush the pipe so yeah that's what that's for so yeah that's all those sorts of accessories and back boxes and patch panels and stuff like that and now for the final hardware we've got we've got all the trunking there's probably a little bit of extra hardware that i've forgotten about but i'll show that as we're going on really this is all sort of key stuff so we've got this trunking here and this is going to be used in the downstairs cupboard as well as in that upstairs cupboard and rather than just going for sort of basic mini trunking or is it midi trunking or whatever or maxi trunking just the cheap sort of generic trunking i've gone with this schneider electric dado trunking so it's not like three compartment writing it's just like a single compartment but it just seems a lot more solid so you've got the side pieces and you've got this piece that's also got protective film over it that goes in the front and this is really solid trunk and this is you know built like a tank it's also three meters long hence why it's a bit hard to get in shot and a bit worried about it falling over but yeah this is i think 100 by 500 mil by 50 mil so it's really large trunking it's maybe a bit overkill but it just seems really good quality and then also got some end caps that's just going to go on the end to cap it off but the reason i went for this stuff is because obviously this is designed for you know running along the wall of an office having your sockets and stuff in it so what we can do and then we can get this little mounting frame that'll clip into the trunking so basically cut the cover and basically remove part of the cover and clip this instead and that's a sort of almost like a patrice box but what's really good with this is it's not a patches box you can get ones that have a password have a hold back on them but this doesn't this is just a frame so this will just open up the inside of the trunking without any plastic behind this to restrict the space for cables so we'll mount this in here inside the cupboard and then what we'll do is we'll fit this brush plate so this brush plate will then be mounted on the trunking and then we've got that sort of cable braid with all the cables in it that braid will go into this brush plate and into the trunking so essentially all you'll see is just the cable braid coming out this brush plate and into the cupboard i think that's going to look really really neat so yeah that's planned for the trunk in there so let's put all pans out and actually works and yeah someone's being very inquisitive with drunking yes yes um but yeah that's all the harder we've got there okay so that was a look at the hardware that we're going to be installing so now we need to figure out some cable routes and i've done a little bit more poking around and i've basically resigned myself to cutting out a huge bit of plasterboard and i'll just go and buy more plasterboard and patch it all properly because there's also this wall here we just run it all down through but unfortunately there's not only timber at the ceiling level there's also timber about here and then obviously at the bottom of the wall but also diagonally coming down here as well so what i'm going to do is just cut a big chunk of this out just so i can see exactly what's going on drill through all the timbers and everything and then get it in and expect that's why they brought the cables out here rather than doing it here because it is a bit timber sort of running diagonally in here which is really annoying so we'll just need to patch it i mean it's in a cupboard and you'll be able to if you sand all in paint it you won't be able to see it but i'll probably just patches are roughly for now so what i need to go and do is basically i'm going to go away and just start cutting and figuring out the access i'll do that all off camera because i've done it before on video and i'll show what i've done afterwards but i'll go ahead and start cutting out and figure out the access and i'll come back and show what access i've got once i've cut the holes and figure out how we're going to actually get this these cables in yeah time to go in and destroy my friends walls okay so now i'm back after figuring out some of the cable routes and it's not gone quite the plan i mean who'd ever expect like i do to go to plan but i've figured out a solution i think will work so we'll need to take a look we'll take a look at that now so what does i cut this wall open here and i've also reopened that cut that was already done up there that's why it's a weird shape because originally two different cuts so that was done before me but we opened that and i've worked it that we can run the conduit down this wall it's got quite a big gap in it so loads of space the only downside is there's actually this big big bit diagonal wood as well like no this will be structural it's all just stud work but it is just additional stuff i'll have to go through but with this big access hole here rather than drilling lots of small ones i can easily go through this and through the bit wood at the top of that that gets me up into this area here where i can then go up through this wood which takes me up into under stairs i i'm under the floor upstairs that's where those original cables run so they're already running up they'll come out and that'll get me under the floor upstairs and we go up there we'll take a look at what's happened because there's a bit of an issue but what's always quite good here and i'm not sure if i'll do it i think i will is whereas originally my plan was to bring the conduit down here and down this wall to pick up the connection for the tv the problem is that this is curved you might able to see it this is actually a curved bit of wall so trying to do an angle on the conjugate there is going to absolutely suck so what i've looked at though and actually is that down here the camera barely fits but down here you can see there's also this bit stud this stud here but this little gap to the side of it here just to just the left of that between the plasterboard and the stud and that actually reaches into the area behind the tv now unfortunately i can't quite fit the conduit in that but what i'm probably going to do do here then is i'm going to drill through this stud here to bring the conduit will go through that stud and slope down this wall to go behind the tv so it'll come up through that void and then it'll come through that stud here and then that will bring it into this area here so when the conjugate smooth stairs will come down the conduit from the tv will come in here as well and they'll all come out the bottom face of this wall into the trunking so that's actually a lot neater um it'll be a bit tight bend radius on it but when we go upstairs you'll see there's a tight bend radius anyway we're gonna have to deal with but we'll work it all out but yeah that's kind of the plan here but now let's go upstairs and see what's happened because it's not going to be as easy as i hoped okay so here we are upstairs the plan's kind of gone at the window a little bit i cut this hole in the wall here with the intention of using it to drill down in the underfloor space and pull those two conduits up and then i took the light switch off in preparation of bringing the conjugates into the cupboard this would have been a bit tricky anyway because there's a wooden sort of noggin behind it for the back box to mount to and that's very much in the way of where the conduits we need to go past so the plan here was just to cut that noggin out with the multi tool put a dry lining box instead and then i could run the conduits up behind it but there's also this horizontal log in here that i wouldn't be able to get the right angle too to drill through the switch i'd probably cut the wall out below and drill up but i had that all planned out but then i cut into the floor just to see what's under here i was going to use my floor access cutter tool but i think i thought uh i i thought the joists were in a different place anyway and then it because i'm cutting so close to a wall it would the circle wouldn't it wouldn't have much space right at the edge because i can't rectangle it we'll just back it up put some wood under and screw it back down it's in the corner of the room so we don't get much weight here however unfortunately what we've seen is there's a big giant stud right here so that's right in the way of where i needed to bring the cable so i can't bring the cables down out this wall into the underfloor space because this stud this joist is right here and the other side of this wall is the stairs so there's basically no way that i can get run it at the other side of this either as you can see that's the original cables there they're running right up against it and you can see that they're not they've caught that joist from the drill down so that plan hasn't exactly worked so i've gone around under the floor poking with a bunch of rods and arms and trying to figure out what happens the way it works and it seems to be there's just seems to be joists everywhere and i think the main joists run this way across the building and this is like an extra one for the um stairs and there's a couple that run this way but they're just like little pieces of eye joist but not really attached onto anything i think they're just using it for maybe a bit of support so what i've done is i've poked around the rod and it turns out that if you go across the room which is the office there's another joist probably about here can i another eye joist about here and then on the other side of this door obviously is a wall and there isn't a joist below this wall joists about here so i think the plan now basically is just to bring the conduits up inside this wall and i'll just take them all the way up the attic because there's no cover to really bring them out also just have to take them up the attic and it'll do the job fine so what we'll need to do is work out first of all how we're going to get through this eye joist and second of all get up into this wall it's a little bit annoying because obviously i've caused some destruction there anyway and i'm going to create more destruction here and also there's nothing on this wall so i'll have to create like at least two access holes that'll just need fills but real estate is the only option i can think of or actually the least destructive option the other plan i had was to bring them up here at this point i've only had space for one conduit but there isn't any sort of joists below this so i would have been able to do that however i cut into the tiniest little bit just to check and weirdly this is metal stud work like everything else seems to be timber but this is a bit metal here so i don't know why they've done that i don't know if it's like a really small piece or something but yeah this is all metal and metal at the bottom there as well so i didn't fancy trying to drill through that and work out how all that works so decided to bail on that plan so we'll just need to plug that hole up again and that'll do so yeah a little bit making good to do but oh well these things happen but yeah so let's take a look in the other room and we'll see what i've done what we can see through the hole i've made in the floor in there too okay so here we are on the other side of that wall as you can see i have another hole in the floor just behind the door so again this won't take much weight or won't have much weight put on it and as you can see here i can't put the camera down it's a bit big but also there's some cables there that's actually the cables to the well it's two cat5s to the living room and some other really really thin almost like flex cable so no idea what that is try and get marking off it i wonder it's i think it's maybe like a doorbell i bet it's like something to the doorbell or like it seems low voltage i've no idea what that is but those cables are on there and yeah you can't see it but there's an eye joist back in the other room but there's nothing underneath this wall so that means if i cut into this wall and drill down i could absolutely get into under floor space now obviously i need to get through that eye joist but there is already services running through them they're just basically reasonably sized almost like 25 mil holes drilled just in the middle of the joist but the good thing is on that joist i need to drill through there's one pipe at the far end but then nothing really in the middle where i actually need to go through so i'm relatively comfortable i can just drill through that eye joints and run the services and that's fine so the plan is just to get the drill down that hole drill two holes that i joined and get a conduit through and that should be fine i'll need to be a bit careful because it is a couple of pipes basically right before the eye joints there's a couple of heating pipes and the other side there seems to be a cold water supply pipe or maybe hot paper some sort of water supply pipe so i just need to be very careful not to drill through those but at least i'm only going through a tiny little layer of osb so i just need to be very careful and just drill very gently and not put too much force on it but yeah that's the plan so that's what i need to do now is try and draw through i joist and then we'll come back once that's done and if that all works we can run the conduits so now after an absolute epic i'm back and i've got all the holes for the conduit drilled and yeah that was an absolute nightmare not only did the plan not exactly work and i had to try and reroute all the cables but halfway through i managed to catch the nail with my drill bit so i just run through on the joists and it obviously caught a nail so my drill bit is now not very happy and unfortunately everywhere shut now at this time so i don't i wasn't able to get another one so basically for every hole i did after i did this i had to go through with i think up do it like a 19 mil spade bit and then widen it out with this just to try and like ease the load on that drill bit but got it all through eventually so as you see when i got two holes well three there that one didn't work so two holes in the bottom just this choice here up inside there you'll see there's another two holes there up there you'll see there's another two on the left there one right was the original one but i couldn't get the drill in to do it so i've put two more in there and that's basically all those holes through to upstairs so i'm not running on the bottom face yet but because i've got two holes in this for the conduit two holes with one here for conduit and two holes up there conduit so let's go upstairs and see what we've got up there so here we are upstairs as we see under the floor in the office there's those two holes there that i've also drilled again that there is the old the hold hole it was just i couldn't get the drill and widen up so that's just left there but i'll just fill that up fill that in um yeah that's those two holes of the conduit and then what now happens is the conduit will come up it'll run under this floor here and round about here there's that eye joist i've drilled two holes through that so i can pull the conduit through and then finally here i've now cut into the wall in the office again this is we're going to bring the conjugate up top stairs so what i've done is i've deliberately cut this within 150 ml of the corner i think 150 mil marks here so it's all within the wiring zones of being in the corner of a room and i've drilled those holes down there into the under floor space now bizarrely and quite surprisingly it turns out that a lot of the stud walls here are all like metal studs which i've not seen like in our new build house i don't know is this like wood shortage because this place was built i think around about 2021 i think so i was it was a whole wood pricey thing they've actually moved over to metal studs so it is wood below that but then also there was this metal so they had to cut the metal out the hole saw that was a bit wider and then cut a smaller hole with a drill bit through it so it was a bit of a pain but it got there eventually but the good thing is that there actually isn't any horizontal studs across this wall it seems i don't know that's maybe something due to the steel framing so there's actually a clear run from here all the way up to the attic now i have no idea what the top of the wall is made of yet like where if there's timber in there if it's all metal i know there's metal up there but i don't know if there's any timber or anything so i'll need to investigate that but what i'm really hoping i can do is i can drill down into that wall from the attic and i won't need to cut an access hole but it really depends because there's lots of wood and then there's methyl i wouldn't be able to do it because i don't have a drill bit that can go through to go through the metal i have to use a hole saw for that so we'll see but at the very least i've got all the holes ready to put the conduit up to here it's getting quite late so i don't really want to bring power tools and i broke my drill bit so i can't really do much more today or i'm getting this in the attic i don't really fancy going off in the ask at this time of night so what i'm going to do is when we get all the conduit running so i'm going to run the shirt from downstairs up to here and given i've got so much of it i'll just pull up enough to get into the attic plus a little bit excess and i'll see tomorrow i can actually pull it propped up in theatic the only problem is i just didn't think and i used a 25mm drill bit to fit the 25mm conduit and while that sounds fine on paper it does mean that all the holes are extremely tight the one in the eye joist is okay because it was a very thin bit of well eye joist whatever material is osb or something so for that i use a 32 mil hole saw so it's actually a little bit wider so it's really easy to get through but the problem is because the only drill bit i had was 25 mil for the biggest one all the holes that have to go through a lot of timber i've had to use that so it is kind of tight now i think i'll be able to do it i've tested all these with an offcut and i can't sort of force it through but it might be tricky so we'll see if i can get all the conduit through if i can great if not i might need to go out tomorrow and buy a wider drill but then widen these holes out but hopefully i don't have to because that'd be annoying so yeah what i do is i'll go away off camera because we append it on camera and i'll put all the flex conduit in and hopefully i can get the conjugate from the from the under stairs cupboard to here and just leave a big bit of excess so we get up the attic tomorrow and we're back and i've got the first run of conduit installed and to be honest it wasn't actually too hard to put in i was really worried about these holes being you know exactly sized and sure enough when you're pushing a bit conjugate through it it is really tight and that's what i was testing when i was doing i was trying to push a bit conduit in but when you're pulling the conjugate from the other side it's actually okay because it's got the sort of concertina effects so when you've got it in tension when you're pulling it it stretches out and slightly narrows whereas when you're pushing it and it's in compression it compresses and slightly widens and that was the issue i was having so what i found the best way to do it is just sort of force it through the hole as best you can until you've got a little bit sticking out the other side and you can do it especially twist it you will get it through and once it's sticking out the other side of the hole and then if i grab it with a pair of pliers and pulling it just to get enough length and then just pull it with right pull with my hands the rest of the way and by doing that that stretched out enough and it pulled through perfectly fine i was able to leave the real flexicon down here go up upstairs and pull it and pull it through all those three bits of wood without any problem at all now one problem i have had though is getting the cable all the way from here up to the attic obviously the conduit isn't all the way up the attic yet it's just going up the office but i've got the right length in and i tried pushing a bit cat6 up and i got it essentially as far as being halfway up the upstairs wall towards the attic so i've got it most of the way but after a point the amount of tension or force it requires to push the cable through because the cable start buckling in the conduit and you can't get enough force to push it the rest of the way and that's only with one cable so having four or five in these which i think i'll probably have a bit bills get about five in each of these it's just not going to be viable to really force it all through i tried putting in a pool wire so i've just used this you know the washing line i've used in every network install video stuff absolutely great and i try basically putting that in and thinking well if i get that into the conduit can i just tie a cat6 one pull it through pull it back pull more through but even that is really really stiff and i it was doable with one cable you could pull one cable through all the way but i think if you had you know several cables in the conduit it's just going to get too much to pull through really but not all's not lost we've got another plan that still makes the conduit very useful and that is that i'll cut the conduit in three into three different sections so i'll have one piece of conduit from here to under the floor upstairs another piece of conduit from under the floor in the office to under the floor in the bedroom basically where we've got the two axis holes in the floor it's a bit conjugate between the two access holes and then a final bit of conduit that goes from under the floor in the office in the bedroom up in the wall to the attic and i've got those access panels on the floor what i'll do when i repair them is i'll repair them in such a way that they're easy enough to open up again and that way if someone did ever want to run cables in the future they can still push cable through this bit of conduit to them to the floor pop their hand under the floor feed it the rest of the way and it still makes it a lot easier because now you're not having to you know get a bit cable through these three bits of wood or four when you include the bottom plate once all the walls fixed you can get passed through this whole bit of wall with the wall repaired and likewise upstairs you can get it through under the floors which you wouldn't really need the conduit for but it does make it a lot easier and then to get it into the wall upstairs you get it all the way from the bottom underneath the wall under the floor all the way up to the attic again cut into the walls so that'll make it very easy to replace the cables once the walls are repaired so to be honest it's not really much worse than the original plan it literally just means you might have to lift the floor up occasionally and lift that little access panel to pull the cable through to be honest that's not a problem it's dead easy to do so yeah i'll cut the conduit small sort of go from there but what i'll do is before i show you all that i'll get the other conduit in get them all cut and set up properly and i'll show you how we're going to do it going forwards because i've shown in a while here's the dog he's being a very good boy yeah yeah i wasn't sure how he'd be when i was doing all the work because obviously i'm literally coming into his house and ripping holes in the walls but he's actually been really well behaved he's actually he's almost like he's not helping obviously but he's not actually getting in the way like there's one point i'm sitting with my head looking through a hole in the floor trying to figure out how to get the conduit up and he's just sitting next to me this whole there's a headstart looking down the hall with me he's like he's like trying to join in but yeah that should be really good let's feel if there's a dog in a house that i'm filming in i have to show the dog because he's adorable but now he's gonna fall asleep let me sleep okay so now the two conduits in and as i mentioned before i've split them at each point so they run up into above the ceiling here they split they run through the office they split there and then they go up into the wall and eventually go up the attic so a two here that run from here all the way up and throughout the route you'll see i've labeled all the conjugates basically one and two so one up and two up up just indicates direction so that's indicating these go upstairs and then when you'll see upstairs you've got up and down so it means it makes it clear which ones which so that's the two conjugates going up to under the floor upstairs so let's run upstairs take a look at the floor up there and see what we've got there so here we are upstairs we've got the other end of these conduits so you can see we've got one and two so that's one down and two downs that's the other end of those so it's when it's labeled up it means it's coming from downstairs and it's labeled down it means it's going to downstairs likewise with the other two conjugates here so you can see that is labeled two up and that one there is labeled obviously one up and also these are indicating that they're going up to the attic they're going towards the athletes these go through under the office floor to under the floor in the guest bedroom so here we are in the guest bedroom over the other end of those conduits so we can see we have two down and one down so these are the two from the other room that goes eventually you know these go through the office and that goes through the downstairs and then we have and again they've got the glands on stop and pulling out and here we have these ones which are labeled two up and one up these will go up the attic so i'll show you the other end of those and then we'll get them put up into the attic so here we are back in the office on the other side of the wall from that hole in the floor and that's where those two conduits come up so they come up through this wall and there's also a huge length of excess that i've put on obviously we have far too much conduit so loads of excess and that's again one down the other one's two down so that's the down direction of that these will go up the attic so also got this big void in the wall here all the way up there's the attic so what we're going to do is run these cables or conduits through the wall up to the attic so now here we are up in the attic i apologize the audio's a bit rubbish i've got a mask on because obviously there's insulation everywhere this is the one downstairs new build houses i mean it's great that they're really warm but there's so much insulation it's an absolute nightmare so we've rolled some of it back to get in and basically the wall that we need to access is inconveniently right under this board but i'm gonna go and see what if we work out what that wall's made of and how the top of the wall works because i really need to work out how we could drill down into that wall and get those conduits up so let's try and get over there figure it out and ideally not fall through the ceiling because that would be slightly problematic if i did so let's see if i can survive okay so now i think i've found the top of that wall so what we seem to have here is sorry i'm just falling down we have the wall i've got the i want to draw the conjugate in here and then the other wall that's running perpendicular to that is here and what's really good is they've brought the metal up to the attic and the plasterboard is butted up against it and even though there's this wood here above the wall we want if you look down there you can see there is metal so that's a really good sign because that means i don't need to worry about having a long drill bit that can bore through wood and then through the metal what i'm hoping i can do is use a hole saw to take this wood out potentially a slightly larger hole saw and then use a smaller hole saw through the metal and assuming that's the right wall i'll definitely double check i'll probably put a small pilot hole through first just to definitely check i'm in the right place that means i can bring the conduit up the attic really easily now the other thing i'm not quite sure how well it'll work so we can always try it is my initial plan was just to basically bring the conduit up and just have the bare ends just sitting up here but because we've got the metal directly here what i might try and do is drill a larger hole out of this wood and then use one of these flexicon glands so i can potentially have this coming up through the metal and properly gland it in so we'll see if that works it might not but if that works that'd be a really neat solution they're properly glanded in but at the very least i found the top of the wall there and i've got direct access to the metal so that should be really really good so yeah that's the plan time to figure out so what i'll do is i'll first of all just drill a really small hole through this is like a pilot hole just to just to check that i'm definitely in the right place because i can poke a rod down makes them in the right place and once we've done that we'll try and hold saw some of the holes all this wood out with a bigger hole saw and then cut a hole through through the metal with a smaller hole saw and hopefully we can get those two bits of conduit up into the attic cool so i've just drilled a hole out here to test and drop the rod down there which literally fell through the hole but that leads perfectly into the right place in the office so yeah that works so what i need to just do is hole saw out this bit of wood cut through it into the metal and get the conduit up in the attic cool so i've drilled those out so i've drilled out the woods with a larger hole saw and then drilled out the metal with a smaller hole saw and even though it's a bit too big for the gland that is still a suitable size for the gland to fit so i'll definitely try and land it in because i think that would look really neat and then we can see if we bring the cable up and clip them along but i think you can gland that in that would be so much nicer to sit under the insulation so time to do that and the good thing is because of all i'm going to cutting the conduit at different parts i've got all that excess so i can do i can put the gland on the end bring it up to here obviously leaving loads of slack into the wall but i can pull the excess into the under floor space and cut it shorter so i think that's actually a really neat solution so time to get the glands on and get the conjugate pulled up in the attic okay so that's the conjugate landed in so that's actually worked out really well so obviously brought two conduits up put the glands in around the metal and they're now securely held in and i'm really happy with how that's turned out that's great so we're gonna very easily bring the cables down here and in and out that conjugate without having to really worry about yeah any slack conjugate sticking up here and then we'll pull the excess down under the floor and cut it off so i'll show you what we've got downstairs in the office and then let's figure out how we're going to run the ports in so here we are in the office where i've also pulled the conjugates a lot tighter and that's now really neat they're now really nicely running vertically i was a bit worried about the fact like those holes up there being off to the side but actually they're not they're perfectly in line with here so that's great so they're all perfect running in zone 150 in the corner so that's great definitely did happy with how that's turned out so yeah now let's look at where we're installing the ports so here we are under the desk in the office as you can see we've just got a normal main socket and what we're going to do is we'll install network right alongside this so we'll probably put it along the side somewhere off to one side of it i'm not obviously sure where the vertical studs run in this wall so what i'll do is i'll take that socket off and work out from behind that where all the studs are so we can try and figure out what's happening and also interesting to see how to attach those boxes inside that wall like how they just presumably just use dry lining boxes or is there some smart way to mount a metal box inside one inside that wall not sure but yeah we'll pop that socket off and see where the studs are but before we do that we'll take a look at the other side of the wall and we're going to work out where we're going to fit the other port but bear in mind for that socket is because i'll be referring that in the next bit so here we are on the other side of that wall and there also was a moment tv here that was taken down for this section and the tv has a huge space above the bracket mode so we'll be putting the sockets in around here to keep them out of the way that'll still be behind the tv now in terms of where we're going to put the network port all i was going to do is put the network point in but i suspect he probably will want a socket for the tv i don't know if i'll do it in this video but if he was going to put a socket for the tv the most sensible thing to do would be spur off that socket in the office that's exactly the other side of this wall now that socket is basically placed about here on the other side of the wall obviously lower down but it's in this position relation in relation to the bracket now that's a bit too far off to the right but in terms of wiring zones also need to be vertical in line with an accessory i think if i put the socket here offset slightly to the left so that they still sort of overlap each other that would be fine because the cable will still be vertically in line with both sockets it'll just go between the two so if you want to ever add a main socket for this tv it would probably be around about here so what that means for the network point i'll put that more off the side here that way they can be kept away from each other but it means that the stock can be added in so if i had a network socket here then that would get in the way of a future potential main socket so yeah i'll put the network socket sort of towards the left here and then we'll see where that comes up in relation to the other side of the wall as well because if i could just drop four cables down one hole that would be really easy but yeah we'll see how that goes but yep time to pop that socket off in the office and see where the studs are okay so take that socket off the office and then use the space behind it try and work it where the studs were and then totally messed up and hit a stud it turns out these metal studs even though the actual vertical is like you know way over here they've got a huge overhang so i've just caught just the edge of it it's fine i just i'll just that just needs a little polyfill a bit paint it's fine it's behind the tv and that will rub off it's just pencil but yeah i've got a box in here and that's going absolutely fine and you can maybe see down there there's the edge of the metal stud so yeah it was really close to it we've just got a massive overhand i didn't realize that suppose is how you layer things isn't it yep that's in there that's perfectly fine so what i'll need to do is also need to cut another box in on the other side but in the office we'll just have them basically both above each other so i have one port here and one part in the office just on the opposite side of this wall lower down just keeps all nice and straight cable runs so all you need to do is go up in the attic move absolute ton of insulation out of the way and work out where this is where basically above this is in the attic and all you need to do is drill down run the cables in well drill down get the space and then start running cables okay so here we are up in the attic there's the grommet holes we've put in before and there's that wall so i've measured off that wall and i moved all the insulation and i've worked it roughly down there basically where the insulation stops that there's that bit wood in front basically just in front of that is where that what those ports are so that's perfectly fine so what i'm going to try and do is something very similar to what i've done here where i'll use a larger hole saw to cut out a big bit this would just get some space and then i'll use a smaller hole saw in the middle i think this time i'll try and use a 22 mil it's the smallest i've got and then into that hole i'll try and fit a normal 20 ml grommet it might be a bit loose but we'll see hopefully get it to fit and that should be quite neat i might have to do two holes next to each other because also we need to get four cables in for all those ports and that might be a bit tight through a 20 mil grommet i think you can do four so i might try it um but yeah so i just need to measure again because i just did a very brief measurement so i'll do a proper measurement getting that exact space cut a bigger hole through the wood cut a smaller hole through the metal and hopefully get some sort of grommet in there and that's done so as you can see i've cut out a larger hole here in the wood and i've put a smaller hole in the middle and put a grommet in it's just a normal 20 milligram that you have in a socket black box that fits in there really nicely and that'll perfectly protect the cables while they're going through that hole so you don't worry about that yeah you definitely do something with that because it's quite sharp i don't know how they've done it in the rest of the place but most of the cables here come up from the floor there's not much going through the ceiling it's only lighting and i can't really see any lights and see how they've done it but yeah um i feel that's a good way of protecting the cable okay so here we are through in the office and i've cut out this box as well now i have an issue here because what i want to do is put the box in here directly below the one in the in the bedroom just so i can i can drop the cables in that one hole from the attic but when i tried cutting in here interestingly i was hitting something i thought it can be a stud because i've measured it properly and turns out i have for some reason in this sort of cabinet studs probably here and for some reason at the bottom of the wall here there's like a sort of wooden structure it's almost like goes up along and then goes down i don't know if it's underneath the radiator mounting but i don't think it is i would it almost looks like it was put in what originally for a back box to be mounted on and the alterations like decided not to use it possibly it wasn't deep enough and then the views dry lighting box is over here so yeah for some reason i can't cut into that so that's a little bit annoying so that's fine all i've done is i've measured off this socket the studs here and i've cut a box in here so that'll work perfectly fine it just means i'll have to drill another hole from the attic so i'll have one hole in the attic to serve the bedroom and the other hole will serve the office but that's perfectly fine so should nip up to the attic drill another one of those holes and put a grommet in it and then we can start running the cables well a little bit more to do but then at least all this cable will be in it sort of figured out and finished so there we go that's the second hole with the grommet made so there's one down there and then the one we had before there so this one will serve the bedroom that one will serve the office and they're positioned perfectly so if you look directly down those holes you can see the top of the back box basically perfectly in lines that's really good so with that we're almost ready to run the cables the only thing we need to do now is get that trunking installed in the hole covered because for that we need to get the conduits through into the trunking and once all the conduits are in the trunk and cut to length we start fishing all the cables so let's go get that conduit in okay so now we're downstairs and i've got two conduits poked out the wall they do snake a little bit but it's because i wanted them to come out this face of the wall and have the trunking a bit lower down so that's some pokemon there and as you can see i've put the fire sealant around it big thick feet of it around around one side really deep in really hard to squeeze that stuff out but that's all in there now so what i need to do is get that trunking well hold drilled in that trunking and get drunk and put over now the one the problem i have had is i mentioned earlier my plan to get the tv ports was to use that hole i drilled in there or can't really see it was a hole down there unfortunately there's a bit of horizontal wood that goes across and it means i can't get the trunking at the conduit and it just gets hits it i can't get the bend so i've got another plan not as neat but it'll do so let's take a look at what we'll do for that okay so my plans for the tv port isn't going to be super neat but it'll do obviously the tv port is the conjugate inside this wall here which is that void under the stairs so i'm going to do is i'm going to mount this fiery dry lining box that i'm not using upstairs now somewhere around here that will preserve the fire integrity of the other side of the stairs and i can gland the flexible conduit into the back of this so it'll come to this box on the wall here what i've then got is a blanking plate i can put that over the front of this and i can drill a hole through the front of the blanking plate so that will be on the wall like that and then i'm going to put another flexible conduit gland into the front of the blanking plate so essentially what you'll see is a blanking plate flush on the wall with flexible conduit landing in the front coming out and how the flexible conduit will come out up at an angle and go into the side of the trunk and i'll gland inside this trunking so a little bit flexible conjure on show and unfortunately is black stuff i've got so it'll be quite visible but it's in the back of a cupboard it's not really a big deal and i feel that's a lot easier than my original plan which was to try and put the trunking down here and down here which involves costing a lot of trunking for only four cables it's actually quite bulky because a lot of trunking i'd have tried mount trunking around this weird sloped wall and this step and that was just gonna be a total pain so let's give this a go should be enough solution should be a lot easier so try this out and see how it works so yep next stage is to get that sort of weird conduit back box um blank platelet assembly put in and get the trunking mounted up here so yeah hopefully by the time you come back the trunk will be in place and that will all be ready now we can start fishing cables okay so that's drunky now mounted so i've mounted it there drilled two 25mm holes at the back you can access the conduit through and mounted it with far too many screws it definitely didn't need that many times this stuff's actually really really rigid so that's pretty good it's definitely using proper daily truck in the future because that's really strong then we've come on the back here we've got what the plan i've got for the tv ports so as you see what i've done is i've glanded the conduit into the trunking here brought it down and drilled out a blanking plate and then gliding the conduit into that as well and then in the wall we've got this fire rated dry landing box and i'm glad there's more conjugate to the back of that so what we can do is this blanking plate can also meet on top of this so that might on like that and that will sort of look like that which is neat enough definitely a lot easier i'm trying to mount conjugate over that sloped wall and stuff so i can go in there like that and have all the cables run through and then if the cables run into that conjugate there that conjugate runs through the back of this wall here and then it comes out into this box here so you probably just might make out there's more flexible conduit ground gliding into the back there i've got that box there so we'll have four network points here with conjure all the way through to there then up into trunking and they'll mount the brush plate somewhere around here on the back of the trunking here and that means the cable talks about it's actually pretty good now the next thing to do is as i mentioned we've got these ports here that came with the building i want to work out what to do these ideally i want to bring these up into the wall and into the trunking but as far as i can tell this is actually a dot and dab wall onto like breeze blocks so i don't know how easy it will be to pull these cables up so we'll see if we can great if not we'll just have to leave these down here but fingers crossed we can move these up into the trunking but i'll take a look at what those work we're going to do with them and we can start actually pulling all the cables in okay so i've pulled this plate off and unfortunately i can't pull any of those cables it's definitely a dot and dab wall and i think either some of the adhesives has been put over the cables or just clipped in really tightly and it's not gonna come out so i won't be able to pull these up into the wall as was my original plan so the cheating option would just be put those on and run additional cables from that into the rack but i want everything to come out trunking in a single big bundle so what we're going to do is look at the sort of equipment we've got and you know stuff we've got to hand what i think i'll do is i've got loads of that dado trunking left over i'll put a little bit deeper trinket trunking over the top here just blanking it off basically and i can join these cables through inside that trunking i'll put a flexicon gland in the top of it and bring the flexicon up out the top and into the main trunk in that way and that'll be fine and because there's this big open reach box next to it anyway having the trunk and coming out to the same depth won't really impact the use of the cupboard at all so i think we'll do that so yeah we'll get that in there and then finally we can run some cables okay so that's that in so i've got that trunk and cut down here and i've planned some flexible conduit into the top there and that runs up and into the main trunk at the top there so what we'll do is we'll use those inline joiners that i showed before join these cables inside this trunk in here and run them up but before we do that we now need to run the rest of the cables in so to get all the cables pulled through this trunking and through top stairs okay so we've pulled in the first set of runs there's eight runs here four is over to the ports upstairs two for each ap i've also put two ports up in the attic so they're coming out the trunking there all right the conduit they're into the trunking along through these steel bands we've put in so we just screwed these into the back that just holds up means the front cover can come off the cables falling out along here again and then through where the brush plate will go and we've left a huge bit of excess just in case it's ever required so we'll probably lose loads of this but i won't leave enough of the big loop behind the cabinet so they can easily slide that slid out with cable still attached so we've got that there so let's take a look at what we've got upstairs so here we are upstairs and as you can see we've pulled all the cables out the floor in the office and what we'll then and what basically does i pulled what is at least at least enough length a little bit of excess there's gonna be a lot of excess we've got so much cable it makes it easier to do it this way if you're doing a big you know a lot of this you'd probably have like multiple boxes and pull from each box simultaneously but because you know that i've just measured the right way don't have that i've just just measured the right sort of right length so they're pulling out there i'm currently bundled up in the hall so at this point the living room ap will come up will just come straight out here and go straight down through the ceiling so that won't carry through the conduit the rest of us will continue through the conduits we'll pull them through the other two conjugates through here into the guest bedroom and from the guest bedroom we'll pull up this wall and into the attic so tend to pull the rest of the conjugates okay so here we're in the guest bedroom we can see we've pulled the cables through the conduits again so all the cables that were in conjunct one are now pulled back through to conduit one and for conduit two we've pulled two of the cables through that'll go up the attic and the cable for the living room access point hasn't been pulled through and it's still in the office because that'll drop through the ceiling there so yeah what we need to do is get these pushed through the other two conjugates that'll take them off the wall and into the attic so here we are through the office and as you can see we have the cables going between the conduit so you can see this cable is called this conduit once it comes from downstairs and the cable connects across through the conduit that goes through the guest bedroom i've conjured two it's the same deal they come from the conduit that comes from downstairs and they come up and go throughout the conduit that goes to the guest bedroom apart from this one which is the access point for downstairs because that will come up and it'll go through the floor or the ceiling that downstairs round about directly below here so we've pulled it out here and that will push through the access point so yeah don't forget this cables pulled up in the attic cool so in the guest bedroom that's cables now all linked between the two conduits and pushed up to the attic so let's take a look up there and here we are up in the asset where all the cables have come through so we've got these three cables coming out this conduit two of these will go the attic port which i'm just going to install basically here somewhere i'm going to basically bring them along under all this insulation up one of these posts and just stick it here just so it's easy to access from standing up the bladder so you can freaking stand up the ladder and easily connects up to the pores and then over here we have the other four ports that come out the other conjugate and these will go down there to the two rooms so they're gonna run down inside that joist there and pop over and down those two holes into the rooms to fix it on office i could just use four cable clips just use cable clips for each cable that's gonna be quite a lot of cables all sort of tacked down that joist that's gonna be a bit of a pain so what i think i'll do is i'll use a cable clip and then a zip tie so i'll put a cable clip into each bit as it goes along put a zip tie around each cable clip and use the zip tie to hold all four cables as one big bundle saves a lot on the clips and that'll probably work perfectly fine so yeah we'll do that there so yeah time to get these cables clipped along and drop down into the walls and we'll get those ports terminated first and then we'll work out these ones oh and the other cable here one of these will go for the access point which will probably be placed round about down here so it's coming again under the insulation through the ceiling and go into the access point so yeah if you've got all those cables run down into the walls so there we go i've just clipped all those cables i've just put one cable clip in every soft and put a zip tie around it i'll cut the excess off so it swoops out there runs down there over and under the various beams just to keep it reasonably low down i kinda wanted to keep it vaguely in the middle so it's not too close to the plasterboard in case someone never screws up but also not too close to the top of this will all be covered by installation so comes down here as you can see here it comes off at this point down that whole set of the bedroom and off of here down that hole serve the office and as you can see both these holes have grommets in them to protect the cable so and deadhead with how that's turned out and obviously down in both the rooms and i've got dry landing boxes installed with the cables hanging out ready to be terminated so now the next thing we need to do is get the cables in that conduit to serve the tv so that's tv ports in so we've got four cables coming out there and they come up into the cupboard through that blanking plate with flexcon on it up into the trunking and join the big bundle that's coming out likewise for the points that were originally down here they go into that trunk in there that will join them through in come up with the flexible conduit up in this trunking and all the cables join together and come out in this big bundle here so loads of cables here thought it'd be like that next big sort of cable slot sock sleeve stuff to make it look really nice and it all comes through that loads are patra's fixing up there that we'll put a brush plate over so let's cut the trunking lids down but that's fine so yeah that's almost there so really i think we need to now do is start putting the jacks on so we'll go around get some wall plates put on get the keystone jacks put on these cables and get the patch panel installed so here we're in the guest bedroom with the port behind the tv so what i always do is get some of these jacks on so i've got the cables already pulled through unless they're numbered on the ends so i'm going to do is fits the euro modules on just you punch down on the back and then we'll just mount the your module faceplates and put them in so basically do that to the ports here the board's in the office ports in the living room get the keystone jacks off the patch panel and then do the stuff in the attic in the access points and stuff as well but next step is to get these euro module plates on so i won't do action on camera and show how to do it because it's punching down onto the thing but i'll get one on show how it's done and then we'll continue to get the rest on there we go so that's that jack terminator so i'll just punch down into it brought the cable directly at the back at 45 degree angle these jacks are actually quite nice because you can bring the cable out either straight out the back out the bottom there or out the top here so that's kind of nice you can actually bring out depending on the way it's going into your back box so we've brought out this angle here which is really nice for these boxes coming out the top but if you're looking at the bottom of the box you could actually bring it out there which is quite a lot nicer than those excel models that i use in my flat because with those you had the keystone and it had to come out the top which is fine if you're coming in from the top of your back box but if you're coming in from the bottom that could be really tricky to sweep around sort of quite thick cat sticks so that's pretty neat there so yeah it's in there made in the face plate the color match is actually quite good because i was worried mixing modules from ultima and a data faceplate but actually the color matches pretty much banging on it's a little bit different but no worse than the original stuff in this flat in this house so nice to see that see that one's in time to get all the others terminated get screwed back and get them labeled so yep time to go and do all that and then we can work on the patch panel okay so now i've got the ports in the office and the guest bedroom done obviously there's still the tv ones to do and the ones up um the access point the attic stuff but what i want to do is get the keystone jacks put on the other ends of those four ports of putting just now just to test them out just so you'll immensely have a bit of progress we can finally feel like we're doing something so all the cables are coming in here and for the patch panel we just need to put these keystone jacks on so there's standard tool-free keystones these are the ones i tend to use because they're so easy to terminate you basically put the wires with that thing at the end and clip it in so i'll show you that and what we'll do is we'll put those on the end of the fork and four cables that have already terminated just test them out but before i do that i want to get that sort of big sort of sock over those cables because i don't know how well that'll go on if all these jacks are on the end so we'll get that sock over all the cables and get those keystones on okay so we've knocked the cable inside the big sort of cable braid so you can see that comes out here put a zip tie around it to keep keep it in place and then i've got the pattern so that'll be where the brush plate will mount comes all the way down here we've got the brush plate over it that'll need to go in in a minute but i need to cut down the trunking cover first that then snakes down through this big long trunk trunking thing or sprayed which looks quite neat another zip tie to keep it secure and all the cables come at the end so now we need to do is put the keystone jacks on so i've got these ones here which ones we've used which are again ultimate brand it's a brand i've not used before but they seem basically the same as the kinetics for excel ones i've used before where what you do is you get this little guide that you put over in the cable like that you bring all the wires up through the guide and you basically put them through little slots and you line them all up like that and then all you do is you cut them off flush at the edge take that connector plug it into the back of the keystone jack match up the colors and then you basically just push it down and clip this jack shut and when you click that shot it will push this piece forward and it'll engage it and make all the connections although interesting these keystone jacks even though they are the tool-less type they do actually come with an option to use a tool which is not seen before so you get that there with that little piece here but they also come with one of these little covers like the rest of the modules have so what you it looks like you could have not tried it but what it looks like you could do with this is you could actually punch down to that with your regular idc tool and then clip that over it secure the wires in place i don't really know why you would not use the tool list nature but equally these can be kind of fiddly so maybe in case you actually prefer using the tool in which case you can which is quite nice so it's nice to have that option with these but yeah what we need to do is cut this flash and connect it into the keystone jack so there we go that's all cut off flush like that so we can take the keystone jack and connect it off so there we go that's now connected so yep put the connector in the back clipped it shut and that's now on so what i need to do is go and get a cable tester check this out and fingers crossed it works and if it does i've got a lot more of them to do so that'll be fun okay so we connect the tester up and unfortunately as we can see connector through wire three at this end it hasn't been connected so we need to figure that out we are using this our cctv test i think i've made videos on before link is in the description if you want to buy it this thing's absolutely great because as you can see it's actually told me which end the problem's at so you can see it says the problem is at the meter end which is here not the other end so that's ideal because now i know that this is the problem with those little blinky light testers you get your ones have a number just count down in order they're total pain because they'll tell you that wire three isn't connected but you won't have a clue which end it's at and you'll have to re-terminate both so that's made it very clear that the problems at this end so i can pop the jack open see what's wrong with it and fix it so yeah when i made this video i mentioned that this feature could be worth its weight in gold and it really is because this could save so much time especially on this job with this many cables so yeah time to fix that and we'll hope to have a working connection cool so i've retimidated that and that's it now showing a perfect connection which is good it turns out when i've done this i'd also nicked the one man of course and stripped the insulation off and that had broken it so that's all that was but yeah this test was absolutely worth its weight in gold for showing actually which end was broken so that's really good so yeah that's our first working run in now to do a lot more of them so we're still working getting all those keystones on but that's just thinking about edge so we're just still doing that in the background but i've now got all the trunking put together so i put the top on that and take the brush put the brush plate in and that looks so neat i'm so happy this turned out so the final thing we need to do in this cupboard is this down here so this is where we have the original ones that came with the game of the house the new cables here i'm going to join them together so we'll take a look at the joiners we're going to use join them together in this trunking put the cap back on and then that will be ready as well so these here are the online joiners we're using and again these are ultima brand and i wanted to try these out because they seem a bit bit nicer than the ones i've used before that are just basically idc terminals that you punched out onto these are actually raised up to cat 6a but they do state their back was compatible with cat6 and cat5 so that's what we need here and it seems like quite a neat design so you've got a metal butterfly mechanism here and they've got these little rubber plugs but i think these just literally just so it doesn't like lock itself shut in transit so you can just pull those out and then you can see in there there's those pins and you've got this guide here so what you basically do is you've got two different coloring schemes here you paid you push the wires through those holes there presumably until they stop so the top roll goes to there in the bottom will go all the way at the end and you place this sort of face down inside the connector there you'll peel that label off and then you basically i think you just clip it shut and that should work it also comes with a strain release that you can put on i don't think i'll bother with thieves just because going in quite a tight space and it's not going to actually get straight because it's not like it's actually sitting in line on a cable that's being moved but it does come with these stream release if you were doing something like that so yeah these seem pretty neat so we'll try these out and i'll let you know how i get on but hopefully these are quite a nice little option cool so i've just tested those into there so basically it's quite neat all you do is you push the lower ones through and the top one just sort of rests in that sort of gap you can see i've already cut off the solid brown so all you do is cut off the excess on the top line up to that ridge and cut off the excess on the bottom and in theory that should push down into the connector i've never done these ones before but if this works it seems like quite a neat solution cool so that's those three joins in apart from the fact i'm having to lean over all this stuff to get it in that's not very pleasant to do these are quite nice connectors are dead easy to do you just basically line them up in that little guy cut off the excess with some snaps place them in and then crimp them shut it actually works pretty nicely so i do definitely like these these are quite nice they're not much different to the ones you punch down into really but they are quite slick and they're a lot thinner which is quite nice you could quite easily push those through a hole that you wouldn't be able to get a traditional idc terminal ones through so yeah they're quite nice so a bit of excess wire on there but get all that cleared out and then we can just put the trunking lid on in the end cap and that'll also be ready and then what i'll do is go away off camera test everything and i'll come back and just once it's all tested and fixed if there's any interesting problems we find i'll come and show them but i'm not going to show re-terminating every single one there's a dodgy connection on because that would be a pain but yep going to go away test everything get trunking cover back on then we'll finally be ready to fit the patch panel because currently it's three in the morning and i really want to get this done okay so you know i've tasted all the runs and most of them are fine there's an issue with the stripper we're using where it was cutting through one of the cores on some of the wires so we've ended up we swapped it we noticed that part way through and swapped and used strippers that weren't causing that but i meant there's a few that we had to re-terminate that we found the problem with but apart from that it's mostly been fine the only issue i've had was this join here and this was on the original cable that was once the phone line which is cat 5e the others are all cat6 and when i first put it into this joiner here it just wasn't working it was just saying that when the wires were disconnected it was getting really annoying i kept re-trying it i blamed the joiner i really spent so long re-terminating multiple times and eventually kind of gave up and thought it might just be the joiner because this cat5e is a bit it's quite thinner it's a lot thinner wire than the other stuff and it wasn't sitting in this joiner as well so i took it off and just put a keystone jack on it to test it and found it still showing a broken orange conductor so i think at this point it's actually fought with this cable in the wall because i've used my network tester here and as you can see it says the fault is at 2.4 meters this is a tdr test that measures the length of the cable and it's saying that most of the pairs are 12 meters which is about right but the orange pair is 2.4 meters which obviously is not right and that is longer than the length of this cable going to the jack so it's definitely not this cable it's not it's definitely not broken at this point because that is same 2.4 meters and in fact i worked out that if i go into here and i disconnect the orange wire which is where it says it's broken when you do the continuity test if i pull that wire out there which is fiddly there if i pull that orange wire out and do the test again it'll now say that the orange pair has zero meters length so that shows that the connection here to the orange was definitely correct because disconnecting has made a difference but with that connected it shows it's still too short so at this point i basically have to like conclude that this cable's damaged somewhere in the wall it's possible that it's been when this has been put in it's been you know someone's screwed or nailed into it or whatever in fact i do actually see a nail in the wall there so i wonder if that's gone through that wire so yeah it's possible something like that so it's not the end of the world this is just the phone lines behind the couch there is already another cat 6 run to behind the couch so there's already network there it basically just means there's only one port there rather than two so we'll have to deal with that so yeah i'll just disconnect this cable here and just mark it as faulty and then the cable i've already got to go into this trunking i'll just leave it in here and i'll just label what it does and we'll leave the keystone jack on at the other end maybe like not put it into patch panels have it set behind the patch panel because this could be useful in the future for example it could be used to extend into the ont or it could be used for the alarm panel which goes to ethernet connection the on panel comes down to trunking and yes the professionals plugged it in yes yes reasons um but they could actually use this like wired alarm or something so there is use for us i'll leave the cable coil up here just in case it's required in the future but yeah i think this cable is just faulty so yeah and again this tester has been super useful for pointing that out because otherwise it'll probably start retargeting that and definitely trying to get it to work thinking it was definitely something i was doing wrong and not that the original cable was faulty so yeah let's get that take it out tight it up get trunking back on and take a look at the fuel install okay there i've just cut it cut all the connectors off and labeled that that was a spare and that was damaged but yeah so that's annoying but it's fine i mean that could still be used for a phone line like it was being used for before because there's only one wire that's broken but yeah there's no point in using it so we're going to leave that coil up in there so it gets trunk and cover back on of course that's basically everything done the only thing we need to actually swap over now is just this point in the bedroom here just because the faceplate is cracked and i want to swap out this module with one of the nice angled ones just because i want to be consistent and i want the proper labeling window not this little recess that you might stick a label in so pop this off and we'll swap out and this is what happens when you wire a network point like you're wiring a socket with network you don't strip back all the insulation and do this oh well i mean realize the best i can do is just fix it just put it back in i mean there's not really anything else you can do i'd have to re-terminate it and just live with this mess i mean i could possibly put a bit of insulation off another bit cat6 over it but because the inner separator has been cut back it won't really make a difference so i'll just re-terminate it as best i can and just it'll do i mean it's in a bedroom it's not used for much but and it is a very short run because it covers directly below here but yeah that's just annoying isn't it oh well the joys of yeah stuff is put together quickly with people that don't really specialize in there we already terminated not the best but i've just put a bit of spare sleeving or insulation over it just to try and protect it but yeah it's not the easiest but it'll do i mean that will push down into the wall it's best i can really do without replacing the cable because i can't pull any more up so that's fine so let's get a new faceplate on this to replace that cracked one and then screw it back and then we'll be done and there we go that's our port now replaced that looks a lot better so now we're finally ready to get the cabinet started and get the patch panel installed and there we go that's covered totally finished so we've got trunking running along there big cable coming out in that sort of braid through the brush plate i've got that bit in the back there all the cables are joined in and i was a bit worried about that looking silly but to be honest that was perfectly fine i think so yeah that definitely works so yeah we've got the cables down there so what i need to do is get everything taken out of the cabinet just to sort of tidy it all out clean it all and we'll get the patch panel in and there we go that's patch panel installed apologies for the lights we can't currently turn the lights on because there's smart bulbs no networks down but anyway um all right that's patch panel installed so you see we've got all the modules up to port 14 and the rest are all blanked off and these could be used for future expansion and yeah let's put up pretty neat in there obviously if you look coming at the top you see the big sort of brady snake of cables all coming up and into the trunking which is really nice so the next thing you need to do is install the switches when you put the switch in the udm put a shelf in for the little flex mini switch as well and i'll put the server in here and you can put everything up and it will be working again and there we go that's all installed so you can see at the top there we've got a little switch flex little eight port one patch panel the 16 port poe switch which has most of the stuff on it udm pro and a little micro server there and then the pdu is just installed in the back so yeah it's pretty neat and this really goes to show the benefit of having that cable braid because that cabinet is installed or currently pulled right outside of the cupboard so that means if someone ever needs to get into the cupboard to work on any stuff at the back or somebody's coming to work in the consumer unit they can do that the cabinet can be pulled out even while it's powered on slid slightly off the side to go behind the tv and it gives you full access to the cupboard so that's pretty good rather than having it fixed in and being permanently in there so yeah definitely happy with how that sort of worked so now time to push this back in the cupboard and power on and see if it all works and there we go that's cabinet push back so that's pushed back in the corner of the cupboard leaves loads of space because i can sit on top there neatly in the space around it definitely very happy the unique that is so now let's power it all up for the first time and see if it all works there we go so yep that's all the device stuff starting up and the printer so what we'll just need to do is wait for it to boot up and hope it all works and there we go that's all i powered up so we can see if you look in here the switch the udm server everything's powered on and it's all working so yeah that's all fully installed and all fully functional and i'm so happy with how this turned out with that trunking in the cable raid and all that sort of stuff so yeah that's all installed now so the final thing is do a quick tour of just everything that's installed click quick round and then we'll wrap it up so obviously here we've got the cabinet as you can see we've got a patch panel at the top there above that's a little eight port switch the unifi us18 poe switch udn pro a moto hp micro server so there's a printer on top and then that's all power from the back and then for all the cables they come through this trunking here drop down that braided sleeve and into the rack and the patch panel and those flexible conduits the one going vertical carries the joined cables that go to the stuff that's originally sold in the house and the one going into the wall connects the tv ports speaking of tv ports we've got them down here now all finished off as you can see we've labeled them all up with little numbers so that's all numbered and that connects all the stuff at the tv additionally living room behind the couch we've got this additional port here which is one that was already there we've just got a new jack on it and we've just blanked off where that faulty port was because i could have put the phone jack back but it wasn't really required and the cable's faulty so i'll just blank that off and just let a single network point there obviously i've numbered that as well and then finally in the living room we've got the access point up here which obviously is not meant to be like that we just lost the mounting plate so friends ordered a new mounting plate for it so that'll be mounted eventually it's currently just stuck in the hole in the wall that obviously needs to be filled along with that hole there that can all be filled and once we get the mounting plate that can just be screwed up there so that's dead easy to do yeah that's the access point there and this is a unifi six light which is quite nice access point yeah that's downstairs access point upstairs and lighting because we have the access point here such as installing ceiling pretty neat through the guest bedroom we've got those two ports there that are installed a little bit wall these patched but yep that's there and next thing we've got time we can put another socket in there powered tv but that ports they are now powering the tv and the sky q box as well so this guy keep boxing the wired which is good so here we are in the office and we've got the two ports installed in here next to that socket so that'll serve everything in this room and then here we are in the attic and as you can see we've now got some like cable roots but i've clipped off all the cable ties i'm really impressed how that looks it looks really really neat and all the grommets are still in place it's a pretty neat setup and then the other thing up in the attic that you wouldn't have seen before is these two network ports here so there's two network ports they go into patch panel and these can be used for some sort of radio equipment or whatever it's going to be installed in the attic which is nice to have these for for the future because i'm pretty sure you will need these after these cables just run into joists clip along there neatly they'll go under all the insulation and as before they just come up on those grommeted holes so that's all pretty neat the other thing left to do up here is get this insulation back down and there we go that's all the attic insulation put back to normal so all that's less period of that insulation there and then the network point is just up there from that on that joist so that's pretty neat up there so there we go that's all installed and as i probably keep saying i am super happy with it it is such a neat setup and it was a really fun project to do because first i was on a sort of full installment in a freestanding house rather than a flat we have brought all the cables back to a single point i did the video previously but that was where we usually run from downstairs to upstairs it wasn't quite the same so this was really good fun to get it all installed and i'm so happy with the end result obviously there's currently some big holes in the wall and access point mountains like that but once the access points mount you properly those holes are patched this will be a super neat slick setup so yeah so pleased with how this turned out so yeah thank you very much for watching and also stay tuned for other sort of networking home smart home type videos i can't also do full house installs that often but it is great when i get to do them and this has been such a fun video to make so yeah thank you very much for watching

Channel: Cameron Gray

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Length: 87min 47sec (5267 seconds)

Published: Fri May 20 2022