See Picture- Long story short, I live in an attached townhome in California that was built in 1985 and has horrible existing RG58 coax and 1980s phone wiring throughout my house, as well as the four townhouses attached to me built on my block. I am the very last house at the end of these five houses, so the fifth out of five in a row. The length from the cable demarcation closet to my house is over 165’ total. All of our attics are attached and separated by drywall firewalls in the attics, with access holes cut through each for wiring runs. All phone and cable runs use the same conduit from the panel/closet, and up into the first (Home-1)attic where they emerge from the conduit, and then all cables run together from there into each of the other 4 homes attached attics in no conduit, and then onto whichever cable/phone setup they have in each neighbors home. Currently all five of us have only old RG6 coaxial cable to the first two houses (Home-1 & Home-2) from the demarcation closet, or only ancient dual RG58 coaxial cables from old 70’s/80’s analog cable television systems ran to the last three houses (Home-3, Home-4, & Home-5), including mine at the end.
The HOA in our community, as well as the all of the local cable companies (Cox Communications is main provider here) refuse to run new wiring into our houses as it is the homeowners responsibility for indoor wiring, which I understand. I have lived in the same house for 24 years and sick of never having any type of internet connection, bad phone lines, and almost no good cable TV connections to speak of. Everything is limited and my house crawls along just to be able to have cable TV at this point, let alone high speed anything. All of the cable companies just walk away and say there's nothing they can do as the wiring is too old and our HOA would have to upgrade everybody's wiring in the 300 house neighborhood at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars, which the HOA flatly denied due to costs and being able to coordinate wiring multiple homes together at the same time and trying to schedule with multiple different homeowners for same day installations through multiple home attics. After this many years, that's not good enough for me anymore. I do heating and air conditioning sales and design, and used to be a mechanical installer for over 15 years. I have banded together with my four other neighbors and have come to an agreement that I will go into each of our attics individually and run new coax, ethernet, phone, fiber preps, whatever is needed, to each of their attics from the demarcation closet on the side of the first house on block. I will mark and label each run for use for each of my neighbors and myself now, as well as future proofing all of our homes for the future. I will be doing all of the work myself, as well as paying for all of it for each of us to get this finally done and good wiring into my house at the end is the main goal. That is how frustrated they are, and especially myself seeing how I am the farthest away and the most affected by having almost nothing to speak of connection wise in my home.
I have offered to do this to not only improve my home connections finally and live happy, I also want to help them because they are all great neighbors of mine for many years who are also as frustrated. I know how to fish wires and have all of the tools and materials for fishing wiring long distances. What I will do is remove each of our houses existing old coax cables from the demarcation closet that runs into each of their attics, and run new coax cables into each person's home. I will also prep them a new ethernet cable, phone cable, as well as fiber optic cable, and leave long spools of marked excess wiring in each attic for them. I will be doing this all on my own time and money to help myself and my neighbors as our HOA and every cable and networking company refuse to go through each of our five separate attics and help us. Just looking for some advice and knowledge on which cabling and conduit types I should be running to each of our houses? I want the best for myself and my neighbors that I can buy right now and still be reasonable, but also accommodate the far distances, especially for my house at over 165’ away, for cabling used in today's market and for future proofing our homes. Looking for any and all help with suggestions before I start the project shortly. Once I have access into each of my neighbor's attics over the course of a day or few days, I'll be able to run preps for each home into the attic as I go along until I FINALLY get down to my home at the end. I want to run what is best for my home, since I am the furthest away from the closet, and once in my home, I can do all of my own cabling and drops throughout my own home from my own attic. I want to get this done now and for it to hopefully be the only time I need to do this for my house and theirs. They will be free to do whatever they like with what I prep for each of their 4 attics. All of us have accessible attics, and easy access for future changes to extend off any of the prep I leave each of my neighbors and myself in our attics. Thanks for any help and suggestions!
The HOA in our community, as well as the all of the local cable companies (Cox Communications is main provider here) refuse to run new wiring into our houses as it is the homeowners responsibility for indoor wiring, which I understand. I have lived in the same house for 24 years and sick of never having any type of internet connection, bad phone lines, and almost no good cable TV connections to speak of. Everything is limited and my house crawls along just to be able to have cable TV at this point, let alone high speed anything. All of the cable companies just walk away and say there's nothing they can do as the wiring is too old and our HOA would have to upgrade everybody's wiring in the 300 house neighborhood at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars, which the HOA flatly denied due to costs and being able to coordinate wiring multiple homes together at the same time and trying to schedule with multiple different homeowners for same day installations through multiple home attics. After this many years, that's not good enough for me anymore. I do heating and air conditioning sales and design, and used to be a mechanical installer for over 15 years. I have banded together with my four other neighbors and have come to an agreement that I will go into each of our attics individually and run new coax, ethernet, phone, fiber preps, whatever is needed, to each of their attics from the demarcation closet on the side of the first house on block. I will mark and label each run for use for each of my neighbors and myself now, as well as future proofing all of our homes for the future. I will be doing all of the work myself, as well as paying for all of it for each of us to get this finally done and good wiring into my house at the end is the main goal. That is how frustrated they are, and especially myself seeing how I am the farthest away and the most affected by having almost nothing to speak of connection wise in my home.
I have offered to do this to not only improve my home connections finally and live happy, I also want to help them because they are all great neighbors of mine for many years who are also as frustrated. I know how to fish wires and have all of the tools and materials for fishing wiring long distances. What I will do is remove each of our houses existing old coax cables from the demarcation closet that runs into each of their attics, and run new coax cables into each person's home. I will also prep them a new ethernet cable, phone cable, as well as fiber optic cable, and leave long spools of marked excess wiring in each attic for them. I will be doing this all on my own time and money to help myself and my neighbors as our HOA and every cable and networking company refuse to go through each of our five separate attics and help us. Just looking for some advice and knowledge on which cabling and conduit types I should be running to each of our houses? I want the best for myself and my neighbors that I can buy right now and still be reasonable, but also accommodate the far distances, especially for my house at over 165’ away, for cabling used in today's market and for future proofing our homes. Looking for any and all help with suggestions before I start the project shortly. Once I have access into each of my neighbor's attics over the course of a day or few days, I'll be able to run preps for each home into the attic as I go along until I FINALLY get down to my home at the end. I want to run what is best for my home, since I am the furthest away from the closet, and once in my home, I can do all of my own cabling and drops throughout my own home from my own attic. I want to get this done now and for it to hopefully be the only time I need to do this for my house and theirs. They will be free to do whatever they like with what I prep for each of their 4 attics. All of us have accessible attics, and easy access for future changes to extend off any of the prep I leave each of my neighbors and myself in our attics. Thanks for any help and suggestions!
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