Converting an 80 year old home into a modern media center

Posted by Creeva

June 22, 2006

Moving on with getting settled into my home I’m working hard at getting everything modernized as far as the home wiring goes.

The house we moved in has 95% ungrounded outlets, a terrible quality phone line, no network cabling and a terrible cable setup. Let’s start what I done so far. I started by starting to build a wiring closet in the basement. From here the end goal was to make sure everything is in a centralized location.

I was also running into issues with having so many computers Nd power strips and having all the plugs being two pronged. So far I’ve managed to change out 3 rooms to now having 3 prong outlets. The plugs are still ungrounded - but the physical plugs are cheaper then buying adapters or tearing the ground plug off the surge protectors. SO that is the start of the wiring nightmare. We have also ran into the fact that hte basement is on the same breaker as the basement. So if we ran the washer dryer and hte microwave at the same time the circuit would trip. SO we are re-running the washer dryer to be on their own breaker.

My centralized location for home cable was located on the outside of my house. Well now that I’m planning a wiring closet this just wasn’t going ot do. I’ve since brought all the co-zx termination points into the wiring closet and have a centralized location for adjustment at my finger tips.

Network cabling - so far I have do not have a good spot to get the network wiring where I want it through the house. I do have 3 network jacks prewired but I have about 10 mre to go, the further out the trickier the wiring.