As someone who lives in central europe this is fascinating. Houses are built so different over here.

I love him walking around the corners on the jump cuts

"OSCILLATING MULTITOOL" or whatever it's called: that thing is a must have.

Just finished replacing our cloth wiring and running ethernet in our 100 year old house as well. Keep these videos coming!

This is amazing, lots of "This Old House" vibes. Please keep this series going if you can Wendell!

Awesome house, Wendell! Make sure to do more videos from it.

tackling a similar project in a house I just got built in 1800. We didn't get electricity in this area until the early 30s, and it's apparent most of the wiring in the house is from that era, but luckily it's a relatively small house with not that much to it. In any case, thanks for the tips. This is my first time in a place without a parent or a landlord telling me not to cut holes in the wall so it's been a learning experience

I love the building featured in this. I have a soft spot in my heart for old ass buildings.

looking forward to seeing more of this series!

Really enjoy videos like this. Can't wait for more!

Loving this series! It's giving me many ideas, and making me look forward to being a homeowner more than ever.

I've thought about building my own house, if I ever do I plan to include 1" pvc piping that runs to each room so that I can easily run whatever data wiring is popular of the day.

Iron Giant in the intro. 10/10. Wendell love grows.

Thank you for putting time into this segment.

Please keep this up! I am hoping to get a house in a year or two and plan to DIY IOT the crap out of it. These are all great tips!

Best content ever. Super consistent - always informative. Plus Wendell has the best voice!

Love this. Lived in an old timber house from 1870. Wiring is fun.

Those oscillating multi-tools are really nice, they even make bits for cutting either single or double gang boxes. Cuts all 4 sides at once.

living in the UK in a Victorian House built about 1890 we have solid brick walls it was very interesting to see in detail how a old USA House was constructed

Wish this came out yesterday, I was up until 2AM running wires had to learn on this the hard way. Still a great video

These are so comfy. >tfw ywn spend your days wiring up old houses with Wendell

This is a FANTASTIC series . very much getting " This Old House" vipes LOVE IT , MORE please

Great video! This whole video reminds me of my everyday life. This is what I do, still learning all the time. I haven't installed pex or data before though.

I enjoy this type of content. And I have a new found appreciation for conduits

I really like this series of videos

I just love the character your videos have wendell! Keep up the good work

What's the tape measure for again?

Nice informative video. I live in Historic Downtown Savannah so many of the homes here are similar to this one. Definitely picking up some Bob Vila vibes.

Couple of additional tips. #1 The sewer stack often has room around it, giving a chase from basement to attic. #2 Metal Coat hangers make great finder bits and only leave a very small hole. Straighten out the hanger and cut one end on an angle creating a sharp point. You drill it into your attic or basement, then enter the attic/basement and find the hanger. You now know where the wall is, and can drill the larger hole for your wires. (you can also use them to test drill into the wall prior to using a larger bit)

I'm really looking forward to this whole series. The world needs a better IoT and I trust that Level1 can make it happen!

Sadly this is more problematic in Europe (or at least Germany) because we have mainly thick brick walls or even reinforced concrete instead of hollow American walls. While I think our approach is better for isolation, it's worse for changing cables.

A friend and I are finishing a retrofit and gave it the works... we've just finished up our first spool of CAT6, 3/4 pipe drops to every box, provisions for data in every room and even the uninhabited mechanical spaces. We already have a Grafan dashboard set up, but we're really looking to catch any problems before they happen with stuff like plumbing, electrical and heat. It's an expensive undertaking, but if it catches just one leaky water heater once, you've made your money over many times.

Fantastic. Should do more vids like this with everyday tech tips.

Great video, plenty of good ideas.

Hope you do more videos on the house as it progresses!

👌Top notch stuff mate

I feel your pain! I have a home built in 1905. The walls are supported in the basement by 12x12 beams. And the base and top of the walls start with a 6x6 beam, from which the lath and plaster is secured. The outlets are in the baseboard sideways. In order to install new outlets I have to get out a hammer and chisel and carve out a space for an outlet box. Then do some really tricky measuring in the basement to drill straight through 12-18 inches of solid wood and hope I hit the box alcove I created.

I havent seen a rear projection TV on a long time, love grabbing the lenses, and fresnel panel from them and making.... things

The plain simplicity this land builds its houses based on what I would call cardboard materials will never stop surprising me :)

Hope we get a follow up to this. Sounds like an epic endeavor.

I did the same thing as Wendel did to fish up through the floor but my installation was two 7/8 O.D. coolant lines, a 1/4" hole to poke cat5e through and another 1/4" hole to run a 40W 5VDC for the fans.

I enjoyed this project!!!

Living in Germany (where pretty much only full brick walls exist) its always weird watching videos like this where people run wires through their walls like its nothing.

Respect for being your own camera guy Wendall 😆

wow for me it's amazing looking at the complete different approach you guys took and evolved over there for home construction. to me it all looks weird. i'm not being inflamatory, i couldn't give a flying IEEE1394 about "who's better" here, in fact running wires across floors like this in italy at least would be a hard NOPE unless the cilent is reeeeeally good at _motivating_ the contractor. the flexibility for modifications is inspiring. :)

I just bought a house with lath and plaster so I'm looking at replacing the wiring in the walls because a 15 amp circuit for 3 rooms won't work. Good tips from your project. I ran cat 6 to APs and POE cameras, everything else is wireless. I know some people don't agree but my 4 Ubiquity pros cover the house well and I've never had an issue. You just need quality AP's and network cards, especially in your desktops. It will be expensive, way more than wired but you get rewarded with not having to run wall boxs.

20:14 Yes! Those are the gang boxes to use for old work. Screw them in exactly where you want them and they are solid. Big box stores only have the flimsy drop in boxes with the tabs that grab the back side of the drywall. Or new work boxes requiring a guy to uncover the stud and nail them in.

You also want to make sure that the vertical runs are riser rated. What that means is in case of a fire, it wont travel up the cable.

Bruh straight dropping that weight too. Great job!

If you don't need the crazy speeds and your building is quite new, try Powerline Ethernet. Also a great option if you're renting and aren't allowed to drill holes everywhere. A pair of Gigabit adapters are pretty cheap. Mine gets around 800-900Mbits/s which is fine for everything I do. The speeds are consistent throughout the house unlike Wi-Fi so yeah, would recommend.

Hi Wendell, great video! Very timely for me as I may be about to run some cables myself at home. I am wondering what equipment you plant to make smart? Is the intention just to have ethernet ports on the wall or are you going to have data wires going directly to e.g. your light switches so they can be remotely controlled? If so I would be interested to know which switches you plan to use because I am also interested to know how to make all of this secure. Will the IOT network be separate from the public internet?

Loving the 'This Old House' Series with Wendell

Liked this a lot

I have put cat.7a in my new house based of your recommendation. Keep videos going. Also cat.7a costs pretty penny it's about 1 euro per meter but prices are dropping right now

This is pretty awesome video. How long did this took to do? It feels like days at least. Thank you!

this is a interesting series :D please keep the videos coming :D are you planning to do any control system for the lights? if so hopefully wired and not the wireless shit :D

Friendly reminder to those outside the US - check if running your own ethernet wiring is legal or not. Failure to use a licensed installer may void your insurance. In Australia, you need a license for basically all cabling that is fixed into place, including TV antennas, etc now.

Im gonna have to do a similar project in a few days. Lately Ive been having internet issues, and noticed the cable modem has a weak signal. I come to find out whoever built this house 30 years ago had all RG-59 Coax ontop of the AC power lines for the entire ~100-120ft run. Ive been told that this probably has is the equivalent of trying to have a conversation while a young kid is crying tight next to you. Specially since the signal coming into the house isn't that strong to begin with. And while I was rewiring that I thought, why not look into setting up some Ethernet cables to rooms where it might be useful someday.

Can anyone link me to the video which talks about flashing the security cameras? I can't seem to find it.

Really like these iot vids. Would you be up to doing a video in a good way too isolated iot devices from the network so they can't do anything crazy.

Just thinking if you use steel conducts to carry the mains cables then maybe TP-Link Broadband Over mains Adapters can be used provided that the conducts are grounded to earth so no radiation gets out of the conducts

1:34 that Ninja 5 tho I really like mine, since I'm not worried about overclocking, it's just quiet even without headphones on.

Great video, appreciate the companionship? Doing the same thing, concrete walls don't make it easier. Are you also running fiber?

God I love this channel

Is there a forum thread or video about flashing the hikvision cameras? I have 10 of them and want to wire up my home with them but they are super sketchy

Thank you for this excellent video. May I ask, if you would recommend how to choose short UTP patch cables to run from the switch to patch panels? Is there any particular brand you may suggest? Are they all pretty much the same?

From my experience best option is cat. 6a. Usually cat. 6 are not shielded, but 6a are. In modern environments there are lot electrical noise coming from poorly designed PSU that are everywhere, but mostly led lighting. Of course there are lot more things that generate EMI. With properly done cat 6a. you are immune to this. In my country price difference between cables are big. Cat 6 is 0.381€, Cat 6а is 0.559€, Cat 7а+ is 0.797€, Cat 8 is 1,042€, per meter. Interestingly they all uses 23AWG wires, but not always. One time I found 24AWG cat. 6. But one time I buy 1000 meters of cat. 7 cable that was 22AWG. People say that is good, but. When you try to buy modules you are in problem. Shielded module for standard 23AWG is 2.1€, but for 22AWG is more than 10€ per piece. For me, cat. 6a is best cable on the planet, and I use them for everything. I'm using it for data, CCTV, audio... For example one pair for signal, one for power security camera, and two pairs for two speakers. One time I used to wire 3 camera over one cable, but that was only 8 meters. Cat. 6a is ok also for transmission of audio signal unbalanced and balanced. Used for SAS protocol in casino that is similar as rs232, for over 50 meters. This is also a bet that won me an iPhone.

I love all these IOT videos, they always assume you already have a rack loaded with xeon gold blades and it's all ready to go. Would like to see a starting from nothing video.

Are they the Arisa 7050T? Ran some of them and they were great, but they went end of life last year, will be bargains on the used market!

Are you in New England? Not much of the country has basements like that. If so, I could potentially hook you up with some HVAC stuff, whole home filters and air monitors and such.

You guys are so lucky , my house every wall is solid brick. I want to run a cable , its chancing out capping and re plastering .

Studs in the US are generally 16 or 24 inch centers.

Current House has Coaxial wired in each bed room. So im replacing those runs with Ethernet as needed.

5:03 That's kinda me, measuring without even actually reading anything, I remember messing wall, floor and ceiling as a wiring technician.

My housemates were trying to get me to use WIFI on my desktop because they don't like the Ethernet cable running out of my room haha. They don't realize that WIFI sucks.

"For any computer that you're at for more than 15 minutes, run a hard line." I wish someone would've told me this instead of figuring it out the hard way xD

you have conduit, you could just pull in individual wires instead of romex, probably would be easier to pull although I guess using romex saves buying a lot of excess wire that you probably wont be using elsewhere

Please save and post pictures of the old brass cover plates, bakelite receptacles and switches. That stuff is much better built than the residential grade junk they sell at the hardware stores these days.

You don't even need to have fire breaks for those long bits to just "eff" right off lol Was using one to wire the house, and when going down from a bedroom to a cavity behind a closet on the entry level (split level), keep checking the bit from time to time "White... crap, that's drywall" open the closet, hole right in to it lol Well... gonna have to mod the closet now :D

I like that case

Wendel alot of old housed in the 50's were made like that hear in Australia to exactly the same we dont have basements hear though same with wiring hear in the 50's the wiring was what we use hear for light wire very small gauge wire now its only for lights and power wire is alot thicker gauge

Imagining the cost of that 48 ports 10g switch with 40g uplink. I watched Tom describe these tools and actually bought many of them for my installation. 10g for a camera is a bit overkill even 4k

How did you go about flashing the hikvision cameras to make them safe??

8:42 you said most studs 15" on center, it's 16 in the construction world. NOT like I did it for a living on wait I did

@22:10 what do you use the mac pro for?

Why CAT6 and not straight to CAT7? I've done some renovations to my house in 2018 and I've used CAT7 cables 1200Mhz shielded everywhere and I don't do this professionally. The price difference between both cable types was not that big. Really interested on how you've made your final decision.

If you're really scared about making clean cuts to mount your single or double gang boxes, various companies manufacturer a blade that mounts to that oscillating tool and will cut a perfect box every single time. (Just don't get scammed. Some companies charge upwards of $50 for one, and it's complete bunkum pricing).

The value of a tape measure can be felt.

Can someone tell me WHY iot needs more data thruput? It doesnt take much bandwidth to turn on your dryer, or tell your thermostat to turn on early.

Video on flashing the camera's? I've just got mine on an air gapped network but a better firmware would be great with that

My question is why is he putting in CAT6 instead of CAT8 when he wants Gbps100 networking in the future? Sure only put in CAT8 for the few rooms that you will want Gbps100 networking in as CAT8 wiring is expensive but having to rewire the house for it will be even more expensive than doing it in the first place. OR did i get it wrong and he is going to do it through aggregation of ports instead of a single port due to the limitations of how long a CAT8 cable can be?

iron pipes are great when they crack and leave a huge hole in it, also our houses are only 2 years apart in age

You need to go over what you are running that requires 10Gbit in every room of your house, that by itself seems interesting. I've been running Cat6a (not a big price difference between it at Cat6) throughout my house and I'm planning on only having the main office get 10Gbit for ingesting into the NAS. I can't see what you'd be doing that'd require that bandwidth in say your livingroom.

AKSHUALLY Knob and tube wires are very safe and robust, but when people tap into them and add to existing circuits (usually doing a horrible job) they become dangerous. That being said I've rewired 95% of my 1920 house, but mostly to add 20a outlets to the bedrooms and many other updates and improvements. Also i replaced 9 melted 15a outlets on the 1st floor, no idea how the people before me melted so many and didn't burn the house down, but hey here we are! See knob and tube is durable!

Is that Keanu Reeves wearing a Robocop suit on that painting? That's a very sweet house though :)

Any reason you didn't mention Cat 7 ethernet? Is it not worth going over Cat 6?

what's the switch?

That old black pipe could be the old gas pipes for fixtures. Common to find electrical wires run through them as the house was switched from gas to electric lights.

11:27 your house not mine. Cast iron pipes reduce water noise by a lot, plastic pipe much louder by comparison. If it's in the basement who cares.

nice house dude :)