Broadband wiring to face plate

jonnybravo · 27-10-2020 12:19PM #1

Hoping more knowledgeable people on here can help. We're renovating a house at the moment and as part of this we are putting in Cat 6 cables. Electrician is saying that he won't terminate these (either to wall faceplate or other end) as it is a specialist job. A few of my friends have renovated houses have had their electrician do this as part of work.

Contract states wire only which I thought meant it would go from faceplate to broadband hub and would include attaching and putting the ends on. (They have wire only on the TV wiring too & I know that is straightforward).

Should this be standard or is it very hard to do?

DublinDilbert · 27-10-2020 01:52PM

Not hard to do, you could figure it out from youtube.

Does require a tool which costs €10.

https://www.screwfix.ie/p/philex-auto-trim-idc-impact-insertion-tool/67391?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-pyMzNvU7AIVROvtCh0zkAq6EAQYBCABEgK5bvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Patch panels are quite cheap for your utility room where the cables come out:-
https://www.freetv.ie/cat6e-16-port-patch-panel/

And you'll need RJ45 face plates.

Any electrician should be able to do this work these days, it isn't hard. Maybe there is some old school ones who don't like to touch it.

Effects · 27-10-2020 01:56PM

Yeah, it's down to lads not wanting to work with small gauge cables I guess. It can be fiddly for some people.
As mentioned, it's easy enough to do yourself, with some tutorials.
Have they labelled each one at the comms end, so you don't have to trace them afterwards?

jonnybravo · 27-10-2020 09:16PM

DublinDilbert wrote: »

Not hard to do, you could figure it out from youtube.

Does require a tool which costs €10.

https://www.screwfix.ie/p/philex-auto-trim-idc-impact-insertion-tool/67391?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-pyMzNvU7AIVROvtCh0zkAq6EAQYBCABEgK5bvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Patch panels are quite cheap for your utility room where the cables come out:-
https://www.freetv.ie/cat6e-16-port-patch-panel/

And you'll need RJ45 face plates.

Any electrician should be able to do this work these days, it isn't hard. Maybe there is some old school ones who don't like to touch it.

Thanks. That's what I thought. He said he can do but he won't "stand over" it if it doesn't work.

jonnybravo · 27-10-2020 09:17PM

Effects wrote: »

Yeah, it's down to lads not wanting to work with small gauge cables I guess. It can be fiddly for some people.
As mentioned, it's easy enough to do yourself, with some tutorials.
Have they labelled each one at the comms end, so you don't have to trace them afterwards?

Yes has them labelled. Makes it a little easier anyways.

antoinolachtnai · 01-11-2020 09:26PM

jonnybravo wrote: »

Thanks. That's what I thought. He said he can do but he won't "stand over" it if it doesn't work.

If he doesn’t have the right testing equipment he can’t really stand over the work. It will probably be fine but he is not in a position to test and certify it. It may well be to his credit that he is up-front about this.

Broadband wiring to face plate

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