Creeva’s World 2.0

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.

Tom­morow I’ll be run­ning phone cable, it’s incon­sis­tent qual­ity by the pre­vi­ous own­ers but I should be fix­ing the as of tommorow.