Slightly late, but what's another week and a half between friends. The timber has arriven and the frame is starting to go up. Above, a big pile of timber and below, starting to be turned into house.
On day three the roof trusses started going up.
Today I bought 100 m of polypipe to use as network cable conduit. This was my friend Steve's idea. Rather than run 100 m of network cable throughout the house which will inevitably be obsolete within a few years, run a flexible conduit in a star configuration which you can then put Cat5, Cat6, optical fibre or Qubit channel -- whatever you want. This would have been an even better idea if Steve had thought of it before I bought all my network cable -- I could have just bought as much as I actually need, when I need it. But I guess that's small fry. Less than half of the networking cost so far has been the cable itself, although it was certainly the biggest single cost.This is the breakdown so far:
- $120 for 80 m CAT6 cable from Jaycar
- $12.50 for 10 stud brackets from Ebayer Sysintonline
- $20 for crimp tool, punch down tool, network tester and wire stripper from Ebayer
- $30 for 100 m of 13 mm polypipe conduit from Bunnings
- $8 for 100 cable ties with nail holes for anchoring conduit from Bunnings
- $40 for 10 CAT6 jacks from Ebayer Eascable
- $30 for 2 x 4 port faceplates with shutters, plus 8 CAT5 jacks I don't really need (not my best deal) from Ebayer Easycable
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