As someone who lives in central europe this is fascinating. Houses are built so different over here.

@TheWebstaff

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah as someone from the UK I can double down on that..

@tomtalk24

4 жыл бұрын

For that age they seem quite similar, stud walls and fire breaks with plastered wooden slats all sitting on joists with a brick outer and supporting brick chimney. Modern is totally different.

@ThatKoukiZ31

4 жыл бұрын

We have a huge variety of building styles, I have a basement (and my whole house is like Wendel's being a 1920 build) where as houses in the south/florida don't have basements and are built differently for hurricanes. Its quite fascinating but can be a pain as building code can be massively different area to area, but for good reasons.

I love him walking around the corners on the jump cuts

@0FFICERPROBLEM

4 жыл бұрын

Makes me feel like a kid again

Just finished replacing our cloth wiring and running ethernet in our 100 year old house as well. Keep these videos coming!

@warw

4 жыл бұрын

@@deminybs it's an insane amount of work, but it's so rewarding. The other people bidding against us were planning on knocking it down, so it feels incredible to bring it back to life again. Glad your uncle is doing the same!

@cdoublejj

4 жыл бұрын

yuuuup! i installing wifi switches and the cloth just fell off so i put on heat shrink, at which point the cloth was set ablaze with the lighter before i blew it out preventing a house fire. no way i way plugging in a new OLED to that garbage. new romex and Cat6a

@garyadams7913

4 жыл бұрын

Cloth wiring a.k.a. Nob & Slob learned that from an electrician who did work in gentrified rehabs.

@warw

4 жыл бұрын

@@cdoublejj good call dude. We weren't gonna replace it til there I felt it and how brittle it was. Started ripping it out that week lol

@warw

4 жыл бұрын

@@garyadams7913 I love that, hope you don't mind if I steal it lol

"OSCILLATING MULTITOOL" or whatever it's called: that thing is a must have.

@freezingCode

4 жыл бұрын

My brother gave me one, and it's been really handy on a few occasions.

@Nomaran

4 жыл бұрын

I love that tool so much, and yes it makes sheetrock work a cakewalk.

@ac.creations

4 жыл бұрын

I always borrow my coworkers. Might have to get one soon

@andljoy

4 жыл бұрын

I need to get one too , borrowed one to get some super manky vinyl tiles of a crumbling concrete floor, way faster than using an old wood chisel and hammer.

Awesome house, Wendell! Make sure to do more videos from it.

This is amazing, lots of "This Old House" vibes. Please keep this series going if you can Wendell!

looking forward to seeing more of this series!

Loving this series! It's giving me many ideas, and making me look forward to being a homeowner more than ever.

Really enjoy videos like this. Can't wait for more!

Thank you for putting time into this segment.

tackling a similar project in a house I just got built in 1800. We didn't get electricity in this area until the early 30s, and it's apparent most of the wiring in the house is from that era, but luckily it's a relatively small house with not that much to it. In any case, thanks for the tips. This is my first time in a place without a parent or a landlord telling me not to cut holes in the wall so it's been a learning experience

Please keep this up! I am hoping to get a house in a year or two and plan to DIY IOT the crap out of it. These are all great tips!

Best content ever. Super consistent - always informative. Plus Wendell has the best voice!

This is a FANTASTIC series . very much getting " This Old House" vipes LOVE IT , MORE please

Great video! This whole video reminds me of my everyday life. This is what I do, still learning all the time. I haven't installed pex or data before though.

Love this. Lived in an old timber house from 1870. Wiring is fun.

Nice informative video. I live in Historic Downtown Savannah so many of the homes here are similar to this one. Definitely picking up some Bob Vila vibes.

Wish this came out yesterday, I was up until 2AM running wires had to learn on this the hard way. Still a great video

I enjoy this type of content. And I have a new found appreciation for conduits

Those oscillating multi-tools are really nice, they even make bits for cutting either single or double gang boxes. Cuts all 4 sides at once.

I just love the character your videos have wendell! Keep up the good work

I really like this series of videos

These are so comfy. >tfw ywn spend your days wiring up old houses with Wendell

I love the building featured in this. I have a soft spot in my heart for old ass buildings.

I've thought about building my own house, if I ever do I plan to include 1" pvc piping that runs to each room so that I can easily run whatever data wiring is popular of the day.

A friend and I are finishing a retrofit and gave it the works... we've just finished up our first spool of CAT6, 3/4 pipe drops to every box, provisions for data in every room and even the uninhabited mechanical spaces. We already have a Grafan dashboard set up, but we're really looking to catch any problems before they happen with stuff like plumbing, electrical and heat. It's an expensive undertaking, but if it catches just one leaky water heater once, you've made your money over many times.

I'm really looking forward to this whole series. The world needs a better IoT and I trust that Level1 can make it happen!

Fantastic. Should do more vids like this with everyday tech tips.

Great video, plenty of good ideas.

Hope you do more videos on the house as it progresses!

Hope we get a follow up to this. Sounds like an epic endeavor.

I feel your pain! I have a home built in 1905. The walls are supported in the basement by 12x12 beams. And the base and top of the walls start with a 6x6 beam, from which the lath and plaster is secured. The outlets are in the baseboard sideways. In order to install new outlets I have to get out a hammer and chisel and carve out a space for an outlet box. Then do some really tricky measuring in the basement to drill straight through 12-18 inches of solid wood and hope I hit the box alcove I created.

living in the UK in a Victorian House built about 1890 we have solid brick walls it was very interesting to see in detail how a old USA House was constructed

20:14 Yes! Those are the gang boxes to use for old work. Screw them in exactly where you want them and they are solid. Big box stores only have the flimsy drop in boxes with the tabs that grab the back side of the drywall. Or new work boxes requiring a guy to uncover the stud and nail them in.

wow for me it's amazing looking at the complete different approach you guys took and evolved over there for home construction. to me it all looks weird. i'm not being inflamatory, i couldn't give a flying IEEE1394 about "who's better" here, in fact running wires across floors like this in italy at least would be a hard NOPE unless the cilent is reeeeeally good at _motivating_ the contractor. the flexibility for modifications is inspiring. :)

👌Top notch stuff mate

Couple of additional tips. #1 The sewer stack often has room around it, giving a chase from basement to attic. #2 Metal Coat hangers make great finder bits and only leave a very small hole. Straighten out the hanger and cut one end on an angle creating a sharp point. You drill it into your attic or basement, then enter the attic/basement and find the hanger. You now know where the wall is, and can drill the larger hole for your wires. (you can also use them to test drill into the wall prior to using a larger bit)

Bruh straight dropping that weight too. Great job!

I enjoyed this project!!!

I just bought a house with lath and plaster so I'm looking at replacing the wiring in the walls because a 15 amp circuit for 3 rooms won't work. Good tips from your project. I ran cat 6 to APs and POE cameras, everything else is wireless. I know some people don't agree but my 4 Ubiquity pros cover the house well and I've never had an issue. You just need quality AP's and network cards, especially in your desktops. It will be expensive, way more than wired but you get rewarded with not having to run wall boxs.

Iron Giant in the intro. 10/10. Wendell love grows.

I havent seen a rear projection TV on a long time, love grabbing the lenses, and fresnel panel from them and making.... things

Sadly this is more problematic in Europe (or at least Germany) because we have mainly thick brick walls or even reinforced concrete instead of hollow American walls. While I think our approach is better for isolation, it's worse for changing cables.

@Jmystro

4 жыл бұрын

In America, the building codes have only changed because of nature like hurricanes and earthquakes. In Europe, building code is based on bombs and bullets. I guess the building mentally boils down to fear of invasion vs no fear of invasion. It's not something I've really thought about until I read your comment.

@johnbuscher

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jmystro Further, though this is somewhat more universal at least in the US rather than the Earthquake or Hurricane resistance building codes, Fire Code also dictates that commercial buildings must have their doors open on push from the inside. That way, people don't have to grasp the handles or touch them for very long if you do, and the consistency across the board tries to make sure that no one is confused about push vs pull.

@tomtalk24

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jmystro Europian buildings are far too beautiful to be built to protect against bombs and bullets, we call them castles. Plus the Blitz proves if that was the case, they didn't do a very good job.

@mr.needmoremhz4148

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jmystro So wood and plaster is better VS Hurricanes and earthquakes ?

@Jmystro

4 жыл бұрын

@@tomtalk24 I guess no one got the joke. lol. It's about the Nazis affinity for exporting concrete and rebar to Poland and France instead of using it domestically. Imagine what Germany could of build with those resources.

I did the same thing as Wendel did to fish up through the floor but my installation was two 7/8 O.D. coolant lines, a 1/4" hole to poke cat5e through and another 1/4" hole to run a 40W 5VDC for the fans.

I have put cat.7a in my new house based of your recommendation. Keep videos going. Also cat.7a costs pretty penny it's about 1 euro per meter but prices are dropping right now

What's the tape measure for again?

This is pretty awesome video. How long did this took to do? It feels like days at least. Thank you!

If you don't need the crazy speeds and your building is quite new, try Powerline Ethernet. Also a great option if you're renting and aren't allowed to drill holes everywhere. A pair of Gigabit adapters are pretty cheap. Mine gets around 800-900Mbits/s which is fine for everything I do. The speeds are consistent throughout the house unlike Wi-Fi so yeah, would recommend.

this is a interesting series :D please keep the videos coming :D are you planning to do any control system for the lights? if so hopefully wired and not the wireless shit :D

Loving the 'This Old House' Series with Wendell

Really like these iot vids. Would you be up to doing a video in a good way too isolated iot devices from the network so they can't do anything crazy.

Liked this a lot

Im gonna have to do a similar project in a few days. Lately Ive been having internet issues, and noticed the cable modem has a weak signal. I come to find out whoever built this house 30 years ago had all RG-59 Coax ontop of the AC power lines for the entire ~100-120ft run. Ive been told that this probably has is the equivalent of trying to have a conversation while a young kid is crying tight next to you. Specially since the signal coming into the house isn't that strong to begin with. And while I was rewiring that I thought, why not look into setting up some Ethernet cables to rooms where it might be useful someday.

You also want to make sure that the vertical runs are riser rated. What that means is in case of a fire, it wont travel up the cable.

Respect for being your own camera guy Wendall 😆

Hi Wendell, great video! Very timely for me as I may be about to run some cables myself at home. I am wondering what equipment you plant to make smart? Is the intention just to have ethernet ports on the wall or are you going to have data wires going directly to e.g. your light switches so they can be remotely controlled? If so I would be interested to know which switches you plan to use because I am also interested to know how to make all of this secure. Will the IOT network be separate from the public internet?

The plain simplicity this land builds its houses based on what I would call cardboard materials will never stop surprising me :)

@arceom07

4 жыл бұрын

same

@jadoei13

4 жыл бұрын

Haha, when he said old house, our house is from the 1800s and that's just normal around here. Old would be at least 200 years old for me, more like 300-500.

@tomtalk24

4 жыл бұрын

Funny that as ~1800s UK city center buildings are built in just the same way. In fact Wendells house is only an RSJ and some plaster board away from a newbuild here! Although my shed is around the same as a newbuild over there these days.

Thank you for this excellent video. May I ask, if you would recommend how to choose short UTP patch cables to run from the switch to patch panels? Is there any particular brand you may suggest? Are they all pretty much the same?

Living in Germany (where pretty much only full brick walls exist) its always weird watching videos like this where people run wires through their walls like its nothing.

God I love this channel

1:34 that Ninja 5 tho I really like mine, since I'm not worried about overclocking, it's just quiet even without headphones on.

I love all these IOT videos, they always assume you already have a rack loaded with xeon gold blades and it's all ready to go. Would like to see a starting from nothing video.

Can anyone link me to the video which talks about flashing the security cameras? I can't seem to find it.

Great video, appreciate the companionship? Doing the same thing, concrete walls don't make it easier. Are you also running fiber?

Are you in New England? Not much of the country has basements like that. If so, I could potentially hook you up with some HVAC stuff, whole home filters and air monitors and such.

5:03 That's kinda me, measuring without even actually reading anything, I remember messing wall, floor and ceiling as a wiring technician.

"For any computer that you're at for more than 15 minutes, run a hard line." I wish someone would've told me this instead of figuring it out the hard way xD

Are they the Arisa 7050T? Ran some of them and they were great, but they went end of life last year, will be bargains on the used market!

You guys are so lucky , my house every wall is solid brick. I want to run a cable , its chancing out capping and re plastering .

Just thinking if you use steel conducts to carry the mains cables then maybe TP-Link Broadband Over mains Adapters can be used provided that the conducts are grounded to earth so no radiation gets out of the conducts

I like that case

Imagining the cost of that 48 ports 10g switch with 40g uplink. I watched Tom describe these tools and actually bought many of them for my installation. 10g for a camera is a bit overkill even 4k

you have conduit, you could just pull in individual wires instead of romex, probably would be easier to pull although I guess using romex saves buying a lot of excess wire that you probably wont be using elsewhere

8:42 you said most studs 15" on center, it's 16 in the construction world. NOT like I did it for a living on wait I did

Is that Keanu Reeves wearing a Robocop suit on that painting? That's a very sweet house though :)

Is there a forum thread or video about flashing the hikvision cameras? I have 10 of them and want to wire up my home with them but they are super sketchy

@btw111

4 жыл бұрын

I second this!! It would be wonderful if Wendell put out a video for making Hik cameras less sketchy!

@stevewang

4 жыл бұрын

in a HiK video he did, he did mention to just separate switch/router non-internet network isolate to DVR/server separate port . guarantees no outside access and easier to detect internal hacking. less sketchy than random firmware.

@btw111

4 жыл бұрын

@@stevewang I was hoping for a good firmware in addition to isolating the networks. Or also in the cases where network flexibility is limited, firmware would be nice. Thanks!

@yfs9035

4 жыл бұрын

@@stevewang anything is less Sketch than the default firmware

Wendel alot of old housed in the 50's were made like that hear in Australia to exactly the same we dont have basements hear though same with wiring hear in the 50's the wiring was what we use hear for light wire very small gauge wire now its only for lights and power wire is alot thicker gauge

My housemates were trying to get me to use WIFI on my desktop because they don't like the Ethernet cable running out of my room haha. They don't realize that WIFI sucks.

Studs in the US are generally 16 or 24 inch centers.

@scoo73r

4 жыл бұрын

Homes built prior to the usage of standardized sheathing materials will not necessarily follow any rules.

The value of a tape measure can be felt.

nice house dude :)

I want more Wendell!!

You need to go over what you are running that requires 10Gbit in every room of your house, that by itself seems interesting. I've been running Cat6a (not a big price difference between it at Cat6) throughout my house and I'm planning on only having the main office get 10Gbit for ingesting into the NAS. I can't see what you'd be doing that'd require that bandwidth in say your livingroom.

Why CAT6 and not straight to CAT7? I've done some renovations to my house in 2018 and I've used CAT7 cables 1200Mhz shielded everywhere and I don't do this professionally. The price difference between both cable types was not that big. Really interested on how you've made your final decision.

Current House has Coaxial wired in each bed room. So im replacing those runs with Ethernet as needed.

How did you go about flashing the hikvision cameras to make them safe??

@22:10 what do you use the mac pro for?

Please save and post pictures of the old brass cover plates, bakelite receptacles and switches. That stuff is much better built than the residential grade junk they sell at the hardware stores these days.

Friendly reminder to those outside the US - check if running your own ethernet wiring is legal or not. Failure to use a licensed installer may void your insurance. In Australia, you need a license for basically all cabling that is fixed into place, including TV antennas, etc now.

I love that pause ... "an electrician" :awkward: ... can install a power plug there. I'm totally cracking up about how invisible your proverbial "electrician" was there... helping you. I think we actually use the same guy, Wendell! "The electrician" is such a legend. Literally. #facepalm #dadjoke #nerdydadjoke

iron pipes are great when they crack and leave a huge hole in it, also our houses are only 2 years apart in age

You don't even need to have fire breaks for those long bits to just "eff" right off lol Was using one to wire the house, and when going down from a bedroom to a cavity behind a closet on the entry level (split level), keep checking the bit from time to time "White... crap, that's drywall" open the closet, hole right in to it lol Well... gonna have to mod the closet now :D

@dh66

4 жыл бұрын

LoL...ICR to that. I had to drill horizontally through two studs to an outside wall with power cables in each cavity, next to a door. Well, I was very careful to get past the electrical using an endoscope to see the progress, only had to go through the exterior wall but something was making my bit walk on me, turns out I hit an old steel bracket from a previous door installation, managed to get through it without too much damage to the auger bit and it came out just beside the new door frame. I locked up my 5 amp corded drill several times, wrenched my wrist a half dozen times.

22:22 Oscillating saw ;-)

That old black pipe could be the old gas pipes for fixtures. Common to find electrical wires run through them as the house was switched from gas to electric lights.

@nschubach

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, that stuff was Electrical conduit. Probably thick wall steel conduit which is a PITA to bend :p

From my experience best option is cat. 6a. Usually cat. 6 are not shielded, but 6a are. In modern environments there are lot electrical noise coming from poorly designed PSU that are everywhere, but mostly led lighting. Of course there are lot more things that generate EMI. With properly done cat 6a. you are immune to this. In my country price difference between cables are big. Cat 6 is 0.381€, Cat 6а is 0.559€, Cat 7а+ is 0.797€, Cat 8 is 1,042€, per meter. Interestingly they all uses 23AWG wires, but not always. One time I found 24AWG cat. 6. But one time I buy 1000 meters of cat. 7 cable that was 22AWG. People say that is good, but. When you try to buy modules you are in problem. Shielded module for standard 23AWG is 2.1€, but for 22AWG is more than 10€ per piece. For me, cat. 6a is best cable on the planet, and I use them for everything. I'm using it for data, CCTV, audio... For example one pair for signal, one for power security camera, and two pairs for two speakers. One time I used to wire 3 camera over one cable, but that was only 8 meters. Cat. 6a is ok also for transmission of audio signal unbalanced and balanced. Used for SAS protocol in casino that is similar as rs232, for over 50 meters. This is also a bet that won me an iPhone.

Any reason you didn't mention Cat 7 ethernet? Is it not worth going over Cat 6?

Woah... flashed to not be dangerous? You must elaborate!

If you're really scared about making clean cuts to mount your single or double gang boxes, various companies manufacturer a blade that mounts to that oscillating tool and will cut a perfect box every single time. (Just don't get scammed. Some companies charge upwards of $50 for one, and it's complete bunkum pricing).

Video on flashing the camera's? I've just got mine on an air gapped network but a better firmware would be great with that

@AugustusBohn0

4 жыл бұрын

check the channel, there was a video all about flashing the cameras a few days ago

@btw111

4 жыл бұрын

@@AugustusBohn0 Really? Got a link?

What switch is that?