How not to be conned on ethernet throught the home?

[WJA96]

House purchase moving along, got a second quote (just for ethernet cable runs). Take your seats....



Definitely need a rethink on this. An electrician upgrading single power sockets to doubles and adding more doubles in the upstairs bedrooms is essential. My ethernet kitted house is more of a mix of want/need. I've sent out quote emails to a bunch more local companies.

Perhaps a run to the kitchen, 2 x PoE cameras to the outside and 1 run to each floor for the AP backhaul is a more modest solution.

That‘s probably double what it should be, and the builder will want £1000 to cut and make good the walls and ceilings.

I would suggest that’s a fornicate-off price. It’s SO much easier cabling up offices with suspended ceilings and waist-level trunking. Why would you do a domestic job unless it paid really well.

As I read that it doesn’t even include the patch panel or cabinet. Scary.

 

[doodah]

Got through to a TV aerial/cable installer, who was able to provide me with much more information and has a great track record on Checkatrade.

He says it averages about £125 per run with some runs being easier (cost a bit less) and some being harder (cost a bit more) including labour. Rounding up to £150 x 6 runs = (again rounding up - because life) that's about £1,000.

 

[doodah]

Got an electrician coming to the new house on Friday to do an EICR report but also allows him to have a look at the house for the other jobs including cable runs. Also wondering if I need more coverage for the kitchen/garden. My current AP-LR struggles to get a strong connection into our current garden and it's only separated by one wall and about 10m. Seeing the electrician on Friday also gives me another chance to review where the best place to terminate all the runs (utility room is currently my target).

I also need to start buying all of this equipment.

 

[R4z0r]

do you have phone sockets in any of the rooms? If you do, take the face plate off and look at the cable. Often they run CAT5 and just use two pairs. If it’s cat5, and you don’t need the phone sockets, you can simply re terminate it to rj45 plugs.

The drawback is that it will likely be a daisy chain of Ethernet cables so you’ll need to put switches by the sockets to use it.

I’ve done this in two houses now.

 

[Deleted User 298457]

An alternative is to run the cables externally. There is a lad on Instagram who does some mega installs using conduit ran behind waste pipe. Looks super neat.