rewiring house

Looks like the sun really does shine out of her arse and other places too.

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Sangmo
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Definitely. The stupid rules on socket heights should also be scrapped and then we can have skirting with integral busbars and ducts to allow us to fit or remove power, data and AV sockets whenever we want at any time. Lighting should also have wireless switches, making it easy to add or move them at will.

SteveW

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Steve Walker

You can put the sockets at any height you want in your own house.

Running mains and data close and parallel is *not* a good idea.

Great. Some 40 + batteries needed in this house, then. Talk about a nightmare of your own making.

Reply to
Dave Plowman (News)

Every modern office uses 3 compartment trunking with mains in the middle and networking in one of the outer compartments - it's rarelya problem.

Reply to
Tim Watts

I've got plenty of experience of running things like microphone cables close to mains.

The answer is don't do it.

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Dave Plowman (News)

I don't doubt your knowledge of AV cabling Dave - but equally, networking is something I have experience of. Cat5/6 is of course a balanced system with isolation transformers both ends and a huge amount of error detection built in.

I have never seen a problem with Cat5e completely mixed up with mains cabling (common on the backs of servers - impossible to avoid if you have cable management arms.

And 3 compartment trunking is completely the norm these days and has been for a while - you'll have a bundle of Cat5e/6a within an inch of single cored mains or busbars for long parallel runs.

Cheers, Tim

Reply to
Tim Watts

Yes - you'll likely get away with it with CAT used for its correct purpose. But the post I replied to also mentioned AV signals. And many of those - including digital ones - are nothing like so robust.

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Dave Plowman (News)

Ah - thread drift - I lost track of the original context. That's entirely fair.

Reply to
Tim Watts

Just to drag things back... has a consensus been reached on data provision during a rewire?

Currently done with two Devolo ring main transmitter receivers. The proposed house alteration has no near neighbours but I have no idea if the existing plasterboard has a foil surface. Chalet bungalow so easy access along eaves.

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Tim Lamb

It is unlikely the PB is foiled - at least not all of it; maybe just a location where a vapour barrier was required.

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Tim Watts

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