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Posted: 4/1/2014 5:02:53 PM EDT
| Ran a couple more cameras today, and the most direct route was around the back of my attached garage and into my attic. I was able to hide the cables on the side and front of the garage under the soffits. The rear of my garage ( about 12 feet long ) does not have any soffits and the wires are a little too thick to push under my aluminum siding. I was thinking of a couple different ways to clean them up, and not have them just hanging there. First would be Cable Flex Clips. They would secure them, but not hide them. The second is some sort of an exterior cable molding, but I can't locate any that seem to work. Anyone have any suggestions ? |
| If you want to go hard core get some steel conduit and paint it the same color as the house, otherwise you can use the generic gray plastic tube used by electricians to run wire on the exterior. Or you could run them along your gutter if you have outdoor rated cable. |
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If you want to go hard core get some steel conduit and paint it the same color as the house, otherwise you can use the generic gray plastic tube used by electricians to run wire on the exterior. Or you could run them along your gutter if you have outdoor rated cable. +1 to this. I have an install in a LARGE commercial property - a 10 foot stick of 1/2" EMT (metal) conduit is $1.50 at Home Depot, and a bender is $50 or so and then you have it. If you secure the conduit correctly with clamps and sink the screws into something meaty, you can make it a pretty decent hassle to destroy. If you do this, you want to get the wire INTO a wall as quickly as possible; a wall is a bigger pain to rip up than exposed conduit... :) |
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use a bandsaw to cut it in half, or use something like a dremel to cut a slit into the conduit. You could always tack the wire up under the gutter or soffit and then paint it to match the house. Personally I wold use this as a lesson learned and pull down the wire, then do it the right way. Been there, done that. If you really don't want to take the cable out then cut the cable and then install your conduit and then patch the cable back together. Not ideal and you open yourself up to problems with moisture and connectivity (and reduced resolution), but it's your ass in the end.
On second thought I might have seen half conduit in a electrical supply store, could be wrong though. |
| Update.... I made a trip to the local electrical contractor store. After speaking with one of the guys there, I walked out with some metal cable runners. I re-routed the cables to a higher spot on the rear of the garage, and hid them behind the cable runners. They're high enough to be out of reach, secure enough to make it a hassle to get to them to cut, and are caught on another camera if they were to be cut. |
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