running Cat5 cable through the house...

[TechHead87]

Here's my delimma. I have 100' of cat5. I need to get it from one room, down the hall to another room, but I want to run the cable this way: from the floor, to the ceiling, and eventually, back down to the floor.

How would I achieve this without taping the cable or stapling the cable? I'd rather not chip paint from the walls/ceiling, but I dont want to possibly destroy the cat5, either...

Any other methods, besides the obvious "wireless"???

 

[ScottMac]

Go to your favorite builder's store (HD, Lowe's, etc.) and look in the wireing area for Panduit wire channel.

Is basically a plastic cabling raceway that can be stuck or screwed to the wll, baseboard, or doorframe. It's a decorative sort of conduit and it blends OK on top of baseboard or up near the ceiling.

Good Luck

Scott

 

[ktwebb]

Yeah, typically raceway is your best choice here. If you can snake the cable into a closet and go up/down through there, with the rest hid under carpet at ground level, it can be pretty much non visible.

 

[doug]

You can also look into putting it behind the baseboard or trim. Some of those have a small channel in behind them.

 

[theknight571]

What floor are you on?

If you're first floor... could you drill through the floor at the edge where the carpet and baseboard meet (the carpet hides the hole)... then feed it along the ceiling in the basement and back up through a corresponding hole in the floor of the other room?

We've done that with our cable (cable TV cable) in our living room, for when we want to move the TV from one side to the other.

Our walls are plaster, and we didn't want to risk trying to put boxes in. 🙂

 

[TechHead87]

We're in a one-floor house. I'm probably going to go the Panduit wire channel route.

Thanks for all the advice! These forums are a huge help.

 

[zig3695]

dude youre in a ranch its way easy. get a cut-in box from lowes and outline it on the wall where you want your ethernet jack. make sure its not on a stud, and cut out the hole but dont put the box in yet. then you need to go in your attic and drill down with a 1/2" or 3/4" hole where your wallspace is, and drop a chain inside that hole thats long enough to reach the box you cut out in the wall. then simply tape the ethernet to the chain and pull the chain back up through the hole.

i do this stuff everyday, its much easier then it seems. if you have lathe and plaster walls it will be more difficult, but its still the same procedure. hardest part is finding the wallspace in the attic and avoiding nailer boards that sometimes block the path down the wall. and, if you have insulation in the wall you need to use a real fish tape.

once you do the same to the other end you just feed the wire through the boxes and stick the boxes in the holes. tighten two screws, fasten wire to the plate and bam, a completely built-in ethernet jack. good as new construction.

 

[dfnkt]

was going to suggest running it behind your baseboard