I live in a one-story ranch with an unfinished basement and attic, in the middle of a project where I’ll have access to a bare, un-drywalled wall. I know that eventually I’ll want to run low voltage/Ethernet cable from the basement out to my attached garage, probably through the attic as the garage is only separated from the rest of the attic by Sheetrock.
I just don’t know how much Ethernet cable I’ll be wanting to run.
I think conduit would probably be the best for traversal/future proofing this, but I have no clue what kind to get.
Any suggestions? Things I should look out for?
Check your local building code, conduit is probably not needed
I think the idea is to run conduit now, so they can just feed the cabling into the conduit in the future after the walls are closed up, even if they’re not required to run in conduit
It’s probably not required, but wouldn’t it be easier for future runs to just go down a pipe vs blind feeding it/using a snake through a wall?
Rather than buying the conduit, the tools, the fittings that you would need to install conduit just buy A spool of cat 60 and run more than you need that would be cheaper and much less work since it’s just drilling a hole andpushing it through
Or, run some smaller gauge wire with the cat5 so that you can use it later to pull more through easily. (The wire you pull through later should also have some small gauge wire attached, for the next time)
Not needed but really nice. You don’t know what you will want in 10 years. Conduit will be there and the low voltage stuff is cheap.