I've been using a wireless card for years now and I'm finally getting tired of it. I've ordered 30m of cat5e cable and I plan to hook up to my router which is down in the kitchen.
The route I plan to take is as follows:
I have the "box" room on the first floor at the front of the house. Router is downstairs in the kitchen extension at the back of the house.
I plan to run the cable up into my loft, through the loft and then down the back wall of the house which I'll tack down with those cable pins and then drill a hole through the wall into the extension and hook myself up.
The problem bit is this. I want to run the cable up the wall in my room with as little damage as possible so I plan on buying some plastic cable trunking and running it up to the ceiling. However, there is coving separating the ceiling and the wall. What would be the best, neatest and tidiest way of running it into the loft without obliterating the coving?
One idea is to drill as small a hole as possible through the ceiling and then try the make the cable run in the corner of the coving neatly. But the chances are it'll just sag and look silly. Or should I just drill neatly through the coving as low down as possible and try and run the cable up the wall still?
I think the second is the better option personally as I could then use a junior hack saw on the truning to make it cover any damage around the edge of the hole in the coving.
But I just figured I'd get GD's opinion first
The route I plan to take is as follows:
I have the "box" room on the first floor at the front of the house. Router is downstairs in the kitchen extension at the back of the house.
I plan to run the cable up into my loft, through the loft and then down the back wall of the house which I'll tack down with those cable pins and then drill a hole through the wall into the extension and hook myself up.
The problem bit is this. I want to run the cable up the wall in my room with as little damage as possible so I plan on buying some plastic cable trunking and running it up to the ceiling. However, there is coving separating the ceiling and the wall. What would be the best, neatest and tidiest way of running it into the loft without obliterating the coving?
One idea is to drill as small a hole as possible through the ceiling and then try the make the cable run in the corner of the coving neatly. But the chances are it'll just sag and look silly. Or should I just drill neatly through the coving as low down as possible and try and run the cable up the wall still?
I think the second is the better option personally as I could then use a junior hack saw on the truning to make it cover any damage around the edge of the hole in the coving.
But I just figured I'd get GD's opinion first
