7/6/2023 0 Comments Mounting putty to route cords![]() Sadly, the secret is out, and the junkstream is awash with fake gaffer tape, basically relabeled duct tape. "Gaffer tape" is NOT a regional word for duct tape. ![]() The ground floor is normally a concrete screed and upper floors generally have the plasterboard ceiling on one side of the rafters and floorboards on the other side of the rafters, leaving no access points you could use. When drilling the hole, don't forget that it needs to be the diameter of the Ethernet plug, not the diameter of the cable.ĭepending on your house construction/layout, there may also be options under the floorboards or above the ceiling. More likely though, your best solution will be drilling a hole at the bottom of the frame, passing the cable through, and filling and painting the hole. If you're lucky, the architrave may not fully reach the floor and you can run the cable underneath, the same way as you would do under a baseboard. Note that refitting carpet needs a special tool called a "carpet stretcher" or "knee kicker" to pull the carpet firmly onto the gripper strips.ĭoorways are generally the problem with running cables, of course. Instead lift the carpet around the edges of the room, run the cable around the edges, and refit the carpet. This is not recommended, because you'll be left with a ridge across the carpet which will damage it. If your floor covering is carpet, you could lift the carpet and run the cable across the middle. Remove those mouldings, run the cable round the edge of the wall, and nail/glue the mouldings back. If your floor covering is wood or laminate, typically the wood/laminate sits almost against the baseboard, allowing a little room for expansion, and an extra moulding is nailed/glued to cover that gap. If this gap is wide enough, you may be able to slot the (flat) Ethernet cable into the gap and run the cable round the walls. Typically this doesn't fit completely against the floorboards, so there's a gap between that and the floorboards (to accomodate movement of the floor and/or wall over changing humidity and temperature). Of course it could look better, it's having this status at least 10 years, only this year I'll be going to improve that wall & door for better optical appearance.Ĭheck your baseboard (what they call it in the US) or skirting board (what they call it in the UK). Very primitive, yet very effective nearly no cost after you have a stapler in your home-office. Here is one example where I fixed my ethernet cable along the door. Make the "tongue" (? english noun?) as small (or long) as you need for the staple. I took green color card-paper here to makeit better visible for the reader. The problem of destructive tapes doesn't occur, and the holes in the wall/carpet/wood are so small that they are nearly invisible when the cable must be removed one day. If appearence is not critical and money-is-out, instead of using tapes I use my stapler and cut rectangular pieces of card-paper to make a loop around the cable keeping a tongue to be stapled to the wall. Hmm, when I see your first try then maybe my improvisation-style is sufficient for your needs. ![]() I definitely advise against switching to WiFi as others have suggested. But if you don't care about the look, stick with the existing cable, it is just fine. If the main part is white and you switched to a white Ethernet cable then the whole thing would come pretty close to "background noise" on a white wall. ![]() For Ethernet (and similar), a single nail is strong enough. There are some with a single nail and some with two nails. ![]() There are plenty of varieties, but generally something like this: My recommendation is cable clips/staples. Aesthetic considerations may not be an issue right now (when I was a kid, I definitely ran wires around in unattractive ways, though not Ethernet, that wasn't an option at the time), but a "temporary" wire hanging around is less troublesome than peeled patches of paint. The problem with almost any adhesive is that the longer it stays on, the more likely it is to either fall off when you don't want it to fall off, or stay on when you don't want it to (typically this means "top layer of paint comes off with the tape"). ![]()
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