A house is very different than a typical commercial building, and in a fire, behaves differently. You don't need a plenum, to benefit from the safety offered by plenum rated cable in a home installation. The higher cost of plenum cable to deal with it is likewise, not a big deal in a home, where you aren't going to need miles of it as you might in a commercial installation.
Don't put the cheapest locksets available on your doors, either.
I was referring to crimped connectors. The fact that you prefer something else (punch down) doesn't mean crimped connectors don't exist.
I don't trust any wiring done by a cat.
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The point is in a house there are so many other sources the relatively minute amount of Cat-5 cable insulation is absurd to think is a significant factor in comparison.
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It's enough of a problem that it's worth using the better cable. The fumes it gives off are VERY toxic, not just a little toxic.
If you say so--I have a hard time believing it would be significant in the scheme of things in an actual fire.
I am sure that is true. I plan to go outside my house catches fire.
Good plan!
The cat is there to chase the rat. It's the rat that does the wiring :-)
My understanding is that the plenum fumes are _more_ toxic than those of the non-plenum cable, but there's less of them and they take longer to get started -- again, it's not a simple choice. In a commercial setting, you would expect the sprinkler system to activate before the plenum-rated cables ignited, but in a house there's no sprinkler system.
Pop quiz:
Which is more deadly: Clorine gas or Cyanide Gas?
I find these connectors easy on my 51 year old eyes ...
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