My daughter bought an old house and asked me to install an alarm system with all the wiring hidden . Not too difficult I thought, as she had the builders in and the floors up, so I ran all the cables under the floors and down into a cupboard in the hall.
When I came back to fit the control box the builders had lined the cupboard with plasterboard, bringing the alarm cables out through a cutout. I fitted the control box over the cutout, but in the process of drilling the fixing holes I cut into one of the cables (which weren't running where I thought they were) .
Never mind, I'd left plenty of spare cable to pull through in case repairs were needed, so I cut out a piece of plasterboard only to discover that they had fixed it to the wall with lumps of glue and in the process had glued my cables to the wall virtually all the way up . That stuff is as hard as rock.
So now I'm faced with cutting the cables off near the ceiling and splicing in six new lengths - that's 36 connections. I guess the most reliable solution is to solder each one, but I wondered if there might be a quicker way. Does anyone one make a 36 way tamper proof junction box?
Mike
When I came back to fit the control box the builders had lined the cupboard with plasterboard, bringing the alarm cables out through a cutout. I fitted the control box over the cutout, but in the process of drilling the fixing holes I cut into one of the cables (which weren't running where I thought they were) .
Never mind, I'd left plenty of spare cable to pull through in case repairs were needed, so I cut out a piece of plasterboard only to discover that they had fixed it to the wall with lumps of glue and in the process had glued my cables to the wall virtually all the way up . That stuff is as hard as rock.
So now I'm faced with cutting the cables off near the ceiling and splicing in six new lengths - that's 36 connections. I guess the most reliable solution is to solder each one, but I wondered if there might be a quicker way. Does anyone one make a 36 way tamper proof junction box?
Mike