I thought that this blog would contain some serious stuff from Software Engineering field but there are also other areas of life which deserve our attention. In my case I often do some other interesting stuff that complements things which I do for living. When it comes to weekend activities I often neet to fix broken gadgets in our household, repair sporting gear for my kids or maintain my car or motorcycle. I could leave it for professionals but I like to do big portion of these tasks by myself. You know, to get my hands dirty also on stuff other than computer keyboard.
This weekend was no different. From at least 5 home projects which I do in parallel where the priorities are usually decided by my wife; it showed that the highest priority for today is to finish an installation of 2 new network cables which connect ground floor with attic. That is a prerequisite for starting another project which is a paint job which is a prerequisite for mounting the TV on the wall and finishing living room furniture which is a prerequisite ... and so on and so fort.
There is nothing special about installing new data cables into the wall. Yet there are some nuances. Walls of standard family houses in Europe are built from bricks, floors are made of concrete and attics built under wooden roof delimited from floor beneath by drywall. Walls also have cement plaster that covers bricks. Making a groove inside such a wall involves use of heavy machinery such as this for cement plaster, brick and concrete
and this for drywall
Then of course that has to be accompanied with a vacuum cleaner
otherwise your interior would be covered with thick layer of ugly cement dust. I've done it once without vacuum cleaner and my wife almost killed me.
This time I am quite proud of doing it all "the right way" and hence this post. I managed to find the optimal route for cables, not to make it too long or too hard to create (note the concrete floor that I needed to cross between the floors) and also the resulting finish is going to be like there was never any fixing done before. I already have some experience with touching-up walls (replacing alarm sensor, replacing ceiling light), so yeah, I am quite optimistic about it. And I again learned something new along the way.
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