Re: Cat 5e Cable running tips needed!

["Pete Shew" <pslists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Have you tried taping one of your CCTV cameras to the end of a rod and
pushing it under the floor floor a look see? Or pop a still camera down as
far as you can reach and take a bunch of flash pictures. I must admit
they're sometimes difficult to interpret, but I quite often get useful
information that way.

Pete



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On 13/01/2006 at 17:24 darren_karp2001 wrote:

>Hi All,
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>I intend to install my home CCTV system over the next couple of days
>and need some cabling running tips.
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>All 4 cameras will be mounted outside and I need to fathom a way of
>getting Cat 5e cable from the cupboard under the stairs to each of the
>two locations outside.
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>Normally this wouldn't be too much trouble as I have electricians rods
>but the cable runs need to go from an airbrick outside the kitchen
>back door to the cupboard and the kitchen floor is tiles on top of
>concrete! The concrete isn't too thick and somehow rests on top of
>joists (I can see these joists when I shine a torch from under the
>loose floorboards in the cupboard). The issue is that something is
>blocking the straight path and I am short by around 1.5 metres. I'm
>not certain if its a sleeper wall or what as I'm unable to see far
>enough.
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>The alternative is to take the cables from the cupboard, through the
>downstairs loo and outside by drilling a hole through the toilet room
>tiles next to the overflow pipe but I really don't like the sound of
>this as the wife will probably go crazy, it will look messy, and I'll
>probably end up ruining some tiles.
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>I have looked behind the skirting in the kitchen to see if the
>previous owners had a 'route' into the kitchen for pipes and cables
>but they are clearly going under the floor / routed into the concrete.
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>Does anyone have any tips on possible ways I can 'see' what is going
>on under the kitchen floor or other ways I can run these 2 cables?
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>TIA
>Darren
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