How much showing cable is too much showing cable?

[morph]

WHile we are on this topic, anybody know a supplier of wire coat hangers, getting a bit low and the suspended ceiling wire is not quite the same and plastic coat hangers well just very un-engineer friendley.

Use welding rods, easilly available in large amounts.

[arfur mo]

better still, invest in a set of fibre glass 'fishing rods' from Screwfix.com, they come in a tube of 8, with bendy, magnetic, hook & eye ends for about

[bri]

Strange but true, the same fire guys are on at the same time most nights doo doo do... are we a breed apart

[Guest]

WHile we are on this topic, anybody know a supplier of wire coat hangers,

Bung your local dry cleaner a couple of quid, saves the embarrassment of being court rifling through the subscribers cupboards (unless you realy are looking for the "toys")

along with my cable tracers

you use the progressive electronic ones? like the telephone eng's

[norman]

I have a roll of suspended ceiling wire, I wrap one end round my worktop leg unroll about 20 meters and fasten the end into the drill, spin and watch in amazement as it becomes perfectly straight, cut to length and Bob's a close relative.

[Guest]

I have a roll of suspended ceiling wire, I wrap one end round my worktop leg unroll about 20 meters and fasten the end into the drill, spin and watch in amazement as it becomes perfectly straight, cut to length and Bob's a close relative.

I use the same, but I wait for the ceiling fitters to do all the unravelling\spinning then have whatever they throw on the floor, usually miles of wire along with packs of tiles and miles of t-bar etc...

[Nova-Security]

I use the same, but I wait for the ceiling fitters to do all the unravelling\spinning then have whatever they throw on the floor, usually miles of wire along with packs of tiles and miles of t-bar etc...

So you have got suspended ceiling all over your house then

[Guest]

So you have got suspended ceiling all over your house then

It's free, don't knock it.

[The Arab]

I found fence wire to be excellent same trick as suspended ceiling wire to get it straight and it's a bit thicker.

Oh and i don't like to leave any cable showing

[arfur mo]

Hello Everyone,

I have just finished installing a Texecom Veritas8C in my own home and I can't decide wether I have too much cable showing.

For example in one bedroom because of Coving, I have dropped the detector underneath and have two cables running out of the ceiling a good 2 inches against the coving and in the other bedroom have around an inch of cable showing above the detector.

What do you think? No biggy or a pain in the rear?

Thanks Alex

its part of demonstrating if a system is installed by a DIYer or a pro installer, we get paid for what we know how to do not what we do (thats why we are all skint )

getting pir on the wall is the easy bit - getting it on the wall in the right place..........

ever marvelled at the guy on the market stool cutting glass strips with ease, you buy this wonder tool grab a bit of glass, result dolls house window panes all over the place all different sizes too.

regs

arfur_mo