Welcome to Home Power UP. I have many exciting ideas for this blog but for the moment, let’s get to posting.
Some background on me – I am an advertising professional in the media industry by day and a Do-It-Yourselfer by night. My days are always packed and sleep is what seems to suffer.
I’ve been a home owner for just under a year now and am about to continue the adventure with my girlfriend Lish. Together we are shaping a 1920s house into a home. I look to use it as a giant experiment in home automation, security and technology. Plans are far reaching and I am always looking for new systems and gadgets to integrate.
Feel free to send comments and thoughts to either one of us. We looking forward to everyone’s thoughts and feedback on our updates and remodels. Should be a fun ride.
Nick
Hey Nick!
my wife and I recently bought a 50′s house which is overall in really good shape, but I’m curious what work (and how much of it) you had to do to cable your house. Mainly things like going through walls, wiring between floors, getting through studs, whether you had to cut holes and redo drywall/plaster, etc.
Luckily, the plumping and the wiring was replaced since the 20s. However, the previous owners wired 7 phone lines, Ethernet and cable to nearly every room. The problem is, they weren’t very good at it. They drilled outside of the house from the basement ran up the outside wall and drilled back in to each room. To make it worse, it wasn’t even in conduit. I’m slowly removing all of that and replacing. I’m taking the time to fish all the wires which is a bear. I’m finding remnents of knob and tube electrical (disabled) and double walls. It’s painstaking work that requires patching of drywall as needed. I recommend getting a good fish tape as well as a camera snake. This is the one I have from Ryobi and it rocks – http://www.ryobitools.com/catalog/tek4/documentation/RP4205. I’m a sucker for Ryobi tools. Fairly inexpensive and take a good beating.