Shelves, Doors and Structured Cabling

Here’s a post we wrote months ago and just haven’t had time to finish. Instead of pretending we’re posting then, it now includes more updates about the same things.

After the heating was done we finally got around to sorting out our upstairs doors. They all needed planing to actually fit back into their frames (most of them had never fit even before the new carpets were put in, honestly what was wrong with the previous people?? This took maybe half an hour to fix per door), but we hadn’t had the heart to tackle it yet.

We tried planing at first, but it turned out there was just too much to come off, so we switched to the circular saw once we had the bottoms flat.

We don’t have any photos of the process, but it went something like VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR clonk! Then lots of swearing while we tried to manoeuvre the door into place. Standard stuff. Those doors are heavy. We’re also going to have to take them back off to sand and paint at some point to finally banish the puce.

Now, when we got rid of the bits of built in wardrobes, we kept some bits back to use for some improvised shelving. We wanted to fill in some of the gaping voids in the kitchen counters with something more useful, and the cupboard in the study will eventually be my comms cabinet, so needed some shelving to hold the equipment.

Since then I have upgraded the networking setup a little and moved it into the cupboard, and run underfloor cabling through to the kitchen so I could put in a second Wireless Access Point (the signal didn’t make it through the kitchen wall).

I did however fail to take any pictures of running the cables.