Drilling holes

[simont]

A man came to drill holes in the afternoon
And by the evening, most of the afternoon had gone

– Marillion, ‘Drilling Holes’

Dad came up today to look over my new house for the first time, and help me run network cables throughout it. We spent most of the afternoon drilling a lot of holes all the way through walls, which was somewhat nervous-making but also thoroughly satisfying in an ‘it's my own house and for the first time I am beholden to nobody in the matter of where I see fit to puncture it’ sort of way. Now there's CAT-5 strewn messily all over the place and I shall have to go back at some point and hide it all in trunking. And hoover; never drill holes in walls without having a hoover nearby.

I was a bit nervous about what Dad might think of the house, since he hadn't had a chance to give an opinion (or at least one informed by anything more than verbal descriptions) prior to me deciding to buy it; but although (as I expected) he produced an enormous list of things that could usefully be tweaked, repainted, fixed, grouted and generally meddled with at some point, he seemed to think it was basically a viable dwelling and certainly an order of magnitude better than my current place. Which was, after all, the plan.

Also I've now spent a day in the house in daylight and didn't get a repeat attack of the screaming abdabs at any point, so I can only assume it was indeed just post-completion nerves and nothing to do with the house itself. Phew.

Comments

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

I mostly didn't bother with trunking for cat5 here; I just used cable clips to nail it to the skirting board. A couple of spots have/had a vertical traversal on the wall, and I used thin self-adhesive trunking (intended for the mains) for them.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

SIMON: Aaaaah, house. *relaxes with tea*
ABDABS: Eeeeeeeee! Yeeeeeeee!
SIMON: *sigh*

[simont]

You're not entirely sensible, you know. ;-)

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Ssh! Don't tell anyone! ;-)

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

Woo, congrats on house! *is really jealous*

[sparrowsion]

I've got several metres of narrow self-adhesive trunking lying around from when we cat5'd our upstairs and had a change of plan (run most of it under the floorboards instead) half way through. That said, I'm not sure how adhesive they'll still be.

[simont]

Rats. At the point you posted that comment, I'd just gone out to B&Q to buy my own. So, thanks, but no thanks...