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Eh? Pulling a few meters of 2.5 t&e down 20mm round conduit is ridiculously easy!

I'd use 20mm round in plastic as it's cheap. You'll be limited by the knockouts using 25mm. I can't see any reason to use metal. I did my ring circuits with 2 x 20mm round and lights with oval. Also did cat5e and coax with 20mm round. New work is generally all done with capping, so anything in...

You can use old wireless routers as wireless access points. There are loads of guides if you google "how to turn a wifi router into an access point". Essentially you disable DHCP. I've done just this with an old netgear router from an ISP. I set the same SSID so the device just switches to it...

This is similar to my setup The equipment at the top is the patch panel. All the network cables from the face plates are terminated on the back of this. You then connect each used port of the patch panel to a network switch (pink/orange cables). For a very small wired network (say 4 face...

I guess the "proper" way of doing it would be to run all the network cables back to a rack mounted patch panel and then into a rack mounted switch. This is what I've done with about 20 face plates throughout the house. I'm about to add a load more as we've extended. You would then just plug the...

I've done this kind of thing three times now, every time the electricians were more than happy not to do the chasing and the making good. Just discuss it beforehand with whoever you would like to use to actually cable it up and test and make sure there are happy. Also the electricians were...