Home DIY

but seriously running the ethernet here is like the job i'm most dreading now out of all the remaining jobs prior to moving in.

i need to.

• figure out an ingress point in summer house that makes sense but won't interfere with wall placement when i get to building out my office
  
• install external box with 2 glanded flex steel pvc conduit runs to trench.
  
• fit another glanded junction box on back of house (on top of cladding)
  
• drill hole through cladding and wall large enough to run 2x cat 6a (armour sheath removed) cables into another box on the inside which will house 2 cat6a inline connectors linked to indoor cat6a cable
  
• run indoor cat6a cable under skirting in living room then drop it under floor boards in dining room and have it come up under the stairs.
  
• fit double socket to terminate the cables so i can patch from there into my switch.
  
  

I also need to run phone extension wire around front of house, into external box, then i'm running conduit from the back of the box under the front room floorboards to under the stairs into a second master socket (latest sockets support a direct data extension like this with secondary a&b point in the socket to extend from ) this will also be how I get fibre into the house when it gets switched on in our road next year, i'll dig a small trench through the flowerbed and they'll just be able to pop the cable up into the box and feed it through no drilling or tearing up carpets.

speaking of we're booking all of our carpet fitting in about 2 hours to happen in about 2 weeks so i have to finish decorating and do all this by then.

Thanks for the offers both - I think I'm a bit far away from you though, @stevo_com

^ I'm doing similar. Again. Because fucking ethernet.

I have 2 shielded & gel filled exterior cat6e cables coming from the house (into which I drilled a BigHole), then into the shed (MoarBigHoles), then from the switch to my office (YetMoarBigHoles).

But, I'm a fucking idiot, and the turns are probably too tight, and instead of glorious megabit connections, I'm getting ~10MB, which is a bit shit, as I'm doing a bunch of modelling on 100+GB datasets.

I've picked up 50m of flexible conduit, and a load of glands, junction boxes and clips, so I'm going to run interior cat6 that is a heap more flexible & easier to terminate, from the house to the shed, and from the shed to the office.

When I finally get round to lifting the floor in the front room, I'll extend the incoming fibre through previously installed conduit (actually domestic waste pipes) so that we can watch telly in the middle of the house.

Threading cables under floorboards. Fuck that noise so hard.

thankfully the joists run the direction i need to go in both rooms. and the points the cables will be coming into where i need them to go under the floors are in line with where I need them to come up under the stairs. still dreading trying to get the old boards up and doing it all though.

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Probably a fox; they’re a fucking nuisance.

How rude. FWIW, rats love chewing cables for some reason.

Some flexible metal conduit would be ideal, but looks quite expensive and hard to buy in shorter lengths, so a metal shower hose might be good.

It's defo a fox - got him on my wildlife camera all night, and just got back from Regents laps and he was asleep in a currently empty huge terracotta pot.

It could be a losing battle - there would be so much wire to protect - all in short sections between each bulb.

Yep, they are real destructive little bastards are foxes.

Ha I'm doing the same at the moment and have dug a trench with a big conduit for SWA and CAT6, nearly broke me doing that solo by hand over 15m...

Now need to do the holes into house and cables behind kitchen units (solid concrete floor in extension) and under the floorboard from kitchen to front of house for router one end and CU other end. Because we have a sanded og floorboards floor though I'm only lifting a couple and going crawling under the floor to do the run.

Can you not rod a draw wire then pull the cable(s) through? Crawling around an ancient subfloor is nasty business…

I could but then it still means lifting a few boards in area where I've fitted furniture and risk breaking the boards etc which I'm not keen on whereas going under I know what it's like, I can fix the cables a couple of times along the way and just feed them up through a hole I drill in the boards.

But yes, need a shower immediately after doing it ...

@HatBeard Do you have a link to the cat6a inline connectors you're planning on using at the wall entry point?

@HatBeard Do you have a link to the cat6a inline connectors you're planning on using at the wall entry point?

https://www.kenable.co.uk/en/networking/network-accessories/network-plugs-couplers/11264-cat6a-ftp-inline-punch-down-coupler-joiner-ethernet-8p8c-cable-metal-011264-5021196806141.html

Thank you!

how much of a headache am I going to give myself if I try and remove this tiled hearth from our dining room chimney breast?

It is remarkable how much it winds me up that you lose a foot of useable floor space for a non existent fireplace for absolutely no good reason. we have 3 of them in rooms in the house we're renting while we decorate this new place and every single one of them just makes the room less practical and they all look shit.

left as-is that lip is going to make seating someone at that end of the dining table a constant pain in the arse and will mean we have to push the dining table right up against the walkway through the room between living room, kitchen and hallway.

there's a photo of the side of it there too. is that just tile laid on top of a sheet of wood attached to the floorboards?

if so do i just smash the tiles off and unscrew/pry the nails out of the board?

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and in other news I finally got around to removing the rotten posts from the deck and replacing the boards to cover the holes they made. quick coat of stain on the new boards, will powerwash tomorrow and apply a second coat to the whole thing this weekend.

then I can start thinking about getting the gazebo and my outdoor kitchen area setup.

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I need to put some brackets on the wall to hold some road bikes, back in the UK I had the Milwaukee M18 drill and driver set, which I liked.

Looking online here I can find what I think is the same set:

SGD $872.99 is £508.14 at todays exchange rate - which seems expensive.

I paid £250 for from Screwfix for the same set, in the UK.

I'm used to Singapore being very expensive for almost everything, but double the price is a bit tough to swallow.

But - has the price in the UK shot up since I bought this set? Is the SG price around about correct?

You will probably find that the hearths sit on a big concrete or stone slab. It can be done but it’s a big messy heavy job requiring an SDS. YouTube as always has some decent examples

That is a lot, even for the Fuel. I bough drill, driver, circ saw, router, multi tool, double fast charger, 4 batteries for about a grand less than a year ago.

I would look at an M12 Fuel set, or the one with different heads. M18 is more than I need.

That exact set is £400 at TS right now. I don't think your old set was Fuel, though.

How much are other brands? (edit: Bosch and Mikata look best value out of the good brands. Dewalt is £££s)

What's the equivalent of Erbauer out there? I've been impressed with the Erbauer sander I got and someone else's SDS.

Also I'm assuming you're not going to be doing a tonne of DIY. In which case a dedicated impact driver seems excessive for what, 8 screws?

While I like having an impact driver and SDS, I did all of our first 5yrs of DIY with 'only' a brushed Dewalt combi.

Just get a combi.

E.g.

.... which TBF still looks like double the UK price.

But 2 x £250 > 2 x £100

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https://eezee.sg/product/milwaukee-brushless-2-pcs-combo-kit-13mm-hammer-drill-and-impact-driver-m12-fpp2a-632x-8693dd5261

bloody drills, I wonder if festool dump their stuff there, tsx 18v

asleep in a currently empty huge terracotta pot

Ha, typical. Presumably the wire is plastic coated, they definitely love plastic for some reason.

This is the M18 set I have. Paid about £200 a couple of years ago.

Yep, the wire is plastic coated!