Wiring my flat. Advice needed.

[tommmy]

Hi guys,

I need some advise on how to best carry out my wiring please.
I will have three floating shelves on the side of the chimney breast.
The router with the BT master socket will reside on the top shelf.

Now, I need one ethernet socket on the middle shelf, two sockets on the floor level above the skirting board for NAS and iMac and one socket on the opposite wall for the alarm (well this will be just a bare cable sticking out)

Here is where I need you expertise guys. Please, have a look at my shopping basket and tell me whether I got this right or wrong.

Top shelf:
Router, Bt socket and a faceplate with 4ports

Middle shelf
I will run one cable of the top shelf's plate to the middle plate
the middle shelf plate


Skirting Outlets for NAS and iMac
I will run two cables off the top shelf's plate the skirting plate

Alarm Point

This will be just a point ran off the top shelf's plate to the wall with bare wire hanging out.

I also need you advice when it comes to purchasing the best tools to cramp and terminate the cables and to test the whole thing.

All the face plates are apparently for cat6 but could I use cat6a with them?
Any point thinking about running cat6a as opposed to cat6

I would also take recommendation regarding the cable itself.

Any help much appreciated.

 

[bremen1874]

It generally seems like a decent plan to keep things tidy.

You'll want solid core cable, full copper not copper clad aluminium (CCA). If it doesn't say check.

Match the cable category to the faceplates. You don't need anything better than Cat6 so stick with that. Cat6a will give you nothing useful. You won't need shielded cable.

Use a faceplate for the alarm cable if you can. If you don't you'll need to get a crimping tool for a single plug.

Those faceplates have Krone IDCs so you'll need a Krone punchdown tool which are easy to find.

A Cyclops cutter would be nice for stripping the cable, but they're quite expensive for such a small job. You could manage with a sharp knife.

You should be able to pickup a basic cable continuity tester for under £10.

If you need patch cords buy them ready made.

 

[tommmy]

Many thanks for your help bremen1874.

When you say patch cords what exactly do you mean?

I was intending to buy a roll of cat6 cable and then terminate it as and where needed.
Having said that I have found rj45 face plates where you simply plug in the connector to the back of the plate. So half tempted to buy already terminated cables, however, the problem is I am quite unlikely to find exact lenghts that I need.

Also, you say "generally seems like a decent plan" Any ways of making it more than decent?

Many thanks,
Tom