Possible to do decent carpet installation after alarm company bodge?
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Running alarm wires under carpet is asking for trouble from faults and false alarms later. One wire you might get between the wall and the gripper-rod but not 4.
If there isn't enough slack to use minitrunking above the skirting, lay the carpet and use quarter-round trunking at the join between the carpet and the skirting.
If there isn't enough slack to use minitrunking above the skirting, lay the carpet and use quarter-round trunking at the join between the carpet and the skirting.
There's not enough slack to move them above the skirting.
The whole installation is a disgrace - there's surface mounted trunking all over the place. In one of the bedrooms, slap bang in the middle of the wall, there's some stick on trunking which runs two thirds of the way up the wall, at about a 5 degree angle off the vertical to feed the external sounder. It would have taken seconds to make a couple of discrete holes and fish the wire behind the plasterboard, or if that really was too challenging, just run the damn cable up the corner of the room and move the sounder a couple of meters over.
I know it's difficult doing this work retrospectively in a finished house, but there's no excuse for this level of shoddiness.
I think I'll just rip it all out - we never use the alarm anyway.
The whole installation is a disgrace - there's surface mounted trunking all over the place. In one of the bedrooms, slap bang in the middle of the wall, there's some stick on trunking which runs two thirds of the way up the wall, at about a 5 degree angle off the vertical to feed the external sounder. It would have taken seconds to make a couple of discrete holes and fish the wire behind the plasterboard, or if that really was too challenging, just run the damn cable up the corner of the room and move the sounder a couple of meters over.
I know it's difficult doing this work retrospectively in a finished house, but there's no excuse for this level of shoddiness.
I think I'll just rip it all out - we never use the alarm anyway.
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I come up against this all the time. Wires all over the show.
But it's easy to put them under the carpets. I spoke to a alarm man who said he asks customers do they want to pay extra for skirting be be removed so wires can go behind. No one does he said.
But it's easy to put them under the carpets. I spoke to a alarm man who said he asks customers do they want to pay extra for skirting be be removed so wires can go behind. No one does he said.
Hi folks. In the end, it was straightforward to do this properly.
Bizarrely, in that room, the first 'row' of joists run horizontally, and the rest of them run vertically. Downstairs in the entrance hall, there is a 45 degree wall which the two opposing runs of joists rest on. All that was needed was a single access hatch in the corner of the room and a hole through one joist. I was able to cut all the cables, pull them through the floor and re-join them.
Quite lucky due to the layout of the joists though!
The decision to surface mount the cable leading to the sounder still baffles me though. Dot and dab plasterboard with a good 15mm gap behind it. At the bottom of the wall (in the hole they had already made for the other cables) was a void. It took me just two minutes to fish that cable through the wall.
Hey ho...
Bizarrely, in that room, the first 'row' of joists run horizontally, and the rest of them run vertically. Downstairs in the entrance hall, there is a 45 degree wall which the two opposing runs of joists rest on. All that was needed was a single access hatch in the corner of the room and a hole through one joist. I was able to cut all the cables, pull them through the floor and re-join them.
Quite lucky due to the layout of the joists though!
The decision to surface mount the cable leading to the sounder still baffles me though. Dot and dab plasterboard with a good 15mm gap behind it. At the bottom of the wall (in the hole they had already made for the other cables) was a void. It took me just two minutes to fish that cable through the wall.
Hey ho...
A vertical floor, what next, horizontal walls......
sorry, temptation over came me....But then there is this
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