On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 13:53:55 -0500, "TomR" wrote:
bob wrote:
I'm going to install network cable like in this guide (this guy is
installing coax cable, but the idea is the same):
http://www.prettyhandygirl.com/2013/...tallation.html
When drilling a hole in the floor between two walls, should I put the
hole in the middle, or at the bottom of one of the walls?
In the guide, the person apparently drilled at the bottom of one wall
and avoided drilling into the beam below the floor board. Is this
better because it doesn't weaken the structure of the house, or is it
insignificant?
I think it is confusing what you are asking and what you want to do. Are
you just running one network cable or are you trying to wire several
different locations/rooms with network cable with a centrally located patch
panel?
If it is just one network cable, is it going to come up from below in an
open ceiling basement, or down from above in an unfinished attic space with
no attic floor?
If you looked at his url, I think you'll find it's neither of these two.
He wants to go down from the room where the wire will end into the
basement. If he were going up from the basement, it would be hard
though maybe not impossible to tell where the walls are above. It would
be even harder to tell where the studs in that wall are.
Vic is right: The heating vent grills are at the end of heating ducts,
which almost always run between joists in the basement ceiling, just
about centered between 2 of them usually. If the wall you, the OP, are
putting the wire in is parallel to a rectangular heating vent grill****,
you can use one of those vents to figure out where the joists next to it
are, and since joists are every 16 inches or whatever you measure in the
basement, you can calculate where the other joists are.
***If you can't see the ducts from the basement, you could remove one of
the grills and see which direction the duct is going, maybe see where
the joists are. The orientation of a rectangular grill is not full
proof of which direction the duct comes from.
If the wall is perpedicular to the grill, maybe the whole wall is over a
joist**, or it's not. Once you calculate, maybe you'll use the floor
outside the wall. **Hey, maybe that's why I drilled through one.
More information is needed for anyone to be able to help with this.