In addition the fish tape you might also want to look for something like this:
http://tmt.stores.yahoo.net/fiberfishiikit.html You can find them much cheaper than the price listed here and I find they work great for pushing your way through insulation. On 4/25/07, Joe Fruchey <jfruchey at gmail.com> wrote: > > As it's been said, solid over stranded, definitely. And I didn't even > know you had a choice over the translucent insulation. Man, that stuff > sucks. It's hard enough to see in broad daylight! > > I'd say run an extra cable or two at every drop. Yeah, it'll be a > little more expensive, but if you can get a 1k' box for $65, that's a > measley 6.5? a foot. An extra 50' run costs you $3.25 now, and quite > possibly a lot of time later. > > We used to buy cable from this place in Mandeville for $50/1k'. > Granted, we were buying 50 boxes at a time, so that was probably a > contributing factor. I'll check at work tomorrow. > > Joe > > On 4/25/07, Terry Stockdale <linux at dadstoy.net> wrote: > > At 04:35 PM 4/25/2007, Michael Dolan wrote: > > >I'd like to wire my house with cat-5. Can anyone recommend a good > > >(cheap) place locally to buy a few hundred feet of cat-5? Should I > > >just order it? > > >I also have no experience running cable, but seems like it should be > > >fairly easy. Anyone have any good tips? > > > > Thinking of tools: > > 1) get a 2-piece cable tester set. CompUSA has/had one that I > > bought for about $30 -- made life a lot easier to know which wires were > crossed > > http://tinyurl.com/yp6zo2 > > > > 2) borrow a "fish tape" for running down through walls > > > > 3) get or borrow a long 1" or 1.25" flat drill bit to bore holes > > down through the 2'sx4's in the top of the walls. By the way, you'll > > probably be boring through 2 of them. Not sure why, but there always > > seems to be a second one in the attic above the one at the top of the > > room's wall. > > > > 4) Run the cables through the attic in the morning before it gets > > hot in the attic. > > > > 5) Run -- and tie off -- an extra piece of nylon twine or two down > > the walls. That way, if you decide to pull another cable later, > > you've got an easy way to do it > > > > and, finally, > > 6) cut and nail down some plywood to work on. Don't step off the > > rafters . Sheet rock doesn't support weight very well. <grin> > > > > -- > > Terry Stockdale -- Baton Rouge, LA > > My computer tips site and newsletter: http://www.TerrysComputerTips.com > > My general topics and photo blog: http://www.TheNextWindow.com > > My web design blog: http://www.DrawingOnTheWeb.com > > My computer blogs: http://www.PCRepairSite.Info , > > http://blog.TerrysComputerTips.com , > > http://www.XPRepairSite.com and http://www.VistaRepairSite.com > > My personal site: http://www.TerryStockdale.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070426/750f6c1c/attachment.html
