House update: Wednesday, with other bits

[electricland]

My aunt reports:

Cheers all,
Today, Dan, John and I had for lunch penne with sausage, and Caesar salad.
Yesterday I was out.

Following is an email from Dennis on important progress.
"The plumbing task is accelerating at a rate faster than I can keep up
with it. The connection to the cold water in the basement was redone
today. The supply to the hot water heater that was cut when the heater was
moved will be reconnected tomorrow after the Gofer buys the required
parts. The resulting conglomeration of pipes would make a Rube Goldberg
contraption look neat. Still to do is the plumbing on the third floor.
Dennis."
Dan has been rebuilding door frames on the first floor. He said that Bill
gave some advice about strength of same and he totally agreed.
Bill is doing difficult work on the party wall on the third floor.
Stuart is working with lumber and on insulation (sound and fire) above the
first floor.
John has been working on the telephone, ethernet and cable TV wiring. Son
Mike found a source that said putting all together would interfere with
transmission.
(John rolled over in bed this morning and suggested that I go let people
in and he could work on the crossword puzzle. I said, "That's why you're
being paid the big bucks" . . . and reached for the crossword.)
Love, Helen

But how are the DUCTS?

Comments

at risk of a serious **bapping**

[raithen.livejournal.com]

I feel moved to say that you perhaps have a voicemail message on the subject of said ducts....

*DUCKS*

Duct, duck. GOOSE!

/ goofy....

Re: at risk of a serious **bapping**

[electricland.livejournal.com]

and a "quack" to you too, missy! *bap*

(No voicemail. Note that you have made me paranoid, though.)

Re: at risk of a serious **bapping**

[raithen.livejournal.com]

my work here is done ;).

[nellisir.livejournal.com]

You can bundle cable/coax and ethernet/cat-5 together, and with telephone line if you have such (we mostly use cat-5 now - it's just super-duper phone line). You Cannot bundle them with electrical wire; if electrical & coax/cat-5 must meet, they should cross at right angles and then go their seperate ways.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Have passed this on.

We had a fine time in Rona on the weekend gazing at plugs for the various bits of cable. All very complicated.

[nellisir.livejournal.com]

It is. It's simple if you understand it, but I've found such insight fleeting at best.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

In case you don't see my latest post, my uncle has a follow-up question: when low current wires – coax/cat-5/phone – are running parallel to house wiring, how far apart do they need to be? Is 6” enough, or should it be 1’, or 6’?

Am hoping you know the answer to this...

[nellisir.livejournal.com]

They're usually run in adjacent stud bays, so 12" - 16" should be more than sufficient. I have to talk to the electrician later, so I'll ask him for an "official" distance. I'd guess you're probably good after 6" or so.

Most of my wiring in my basement runs along a triple 2x6 support beam. The electrical is on one side, and the coax & cat-5 on the other; that's 4-1/2" of wood between them, and it seems to be enough.