My old boss had a non-working central vacuum in his old house. He used the conduit to wire cat5 through the house. It was a four (3+basement) story house. He had to do some creative fishtaping but it ...

Q: I’m building a new home and wondering whether I can install all the electrical wiring myself. It’s not a big home, but it has quite a few three- and four-way switches. I have watched a bunch of ...

Hey, I'm planning on wiring up my house with Ethernet in the near future, and I was able to get some Cat5E remnants from my employer. I'm thinking this should be good enough to wire up the house with, ...

At the intersection of saving a few bucks and expensive home insurance claims due to a house fire, we find clones of certified and tested electrical connectors, even when many would argue that ...

Hi, a house is currently being gut renovated and I’d like to run telephone, ethernet and coaxial cables through the walls. Can anyone point me in the direction as to who I would need to contact to get ...

Welcome to the fourth installment of our continuing exploration of signal distribution for the residential installation. In part one of Whole House Wiring Basics we explored various aspects of ...

During a recent blitz to knock out a long list of to-do items, I came to an outlet in Daughter #2’s new-to-her old house that sent shivers up my spine and triggered nightmares of two similarly scary ...