Do It Yourself

7733 readers

1 users here now

Make it, Fix it, Renovate it, Rehabilitate it - as long as you’ve done some part of it yourself, share!

Especially for gardening related or specific do-it-yourself projects, see also the Nature and Gardening community. For more creative-minded projects, see also the Creative community.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Gaywallet

alyaza

circularfish

How to pass low voltage ethernet cables through drywall with insulation (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by HurlingDurling@lemm.ee to c/diy

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hello everyone, I am pulling my home's existing ethernet cables from the garage and into my home to install a network rack. Currently my garage does not have insulation (for a future project), so it get's too hot during summer for my router to live there, so I want to install it in my mudroom where there is insulation. My question is if I drill a hole to put some sort of cable cover (ie. https://a.co/d/1hHosME) will it affect my home's insulation too much where I should be doing something else? If so, what should I do to improve the cable runs?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] agegamon 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, the most I've ever seen is six on a single plate. I wouldn't go that route either.

Honestly if it was me I'd just make one or two runs through the wall and add a network switch on whichever side needs 10 runs. But if you need 10 separate runs then I'd throw a larger piece of conduit through the wall next to a stud, anchor it, make it look nice on either side, and shove some fire-block or some loose foam in (not sure if loose foam is to code but I hate fire-block spray foam so much lol) to keep air from flowing. Pretty much exactly what you originally planned honestly.

There are downward-facing hoods that IMO are a little prettier than the fuzzy wall plates, but if those don't bother you then that's probably fine.