Anyone who knows me (James) knows that I love computers and I love fiddling (not with the musical instrument, with electronics). For example, I would love to have a smart home some day. That’s the type of house that your can program to turn on your lights and stuff and the house can call you when you’re kids get home from school if your out of town. Stuff like that. Anyways with that small rant, here is what I did just recently.
I cut a hole in the wall of our living room.
You may be thinking, what an odd shape to cut into the wall of your living room. Why not a triangle, or an octagon. Rectangles are so boring their almost, as our parent used to say, “square”.
The reason for the rectangle is because I am wiring up a cable output. Previously the cable (for TV/internet) cam out of the floor itself. See this before picture below, it’s coming out of the floor on the right side of the room. The white rectangle you see next to it on the wall next the floor is not the cable output. The cable is literally coming out of the carpet.
Before I go too far, notice how thick the wall was when I cut through it (2 pictures up). It must have taken me an hour or two to cut through it and here is why:
- I couldn’t find any studs so I didn’t know where to cut. The reason I couldn’t mark studs is because the wall is too thick for our “deep” stud finder. Seriously, it’s a “deep” stud finder.
- The wall was so thick and took a while to cut through. (About 1 and 3/4 inches thick.)
- There were 4 layers to cut through: drywall, paper, plaster, and wood planks.
Anyways, enough stalling, here is the finished product:
What’s that you say, not a cable output only? Of course not. I had to add internet too and while I was at it I though I would add video and audio lines that connected to the DVD player, TiVo, etc in the basement. This the video/audio lines we can watch on the upstairs computer monitor whatever is on the downstairs TV. Nice hookup eh?
