My New Study

Righty o... will add the one photo to this post when I upload it just now... its so enthralling since its a picture of an empty cabinet on the floor... :p

Turns out Datanet left one of the fans out, and the cabinet they sell only has rack rails in the front....

More adventures to come I feel...
 
Finally received some of my networking kit from Scoop today...

Will spend some time tomorrow building up the contents of the Cabinet and take photos for you guys.
 
Right.... I have ignored this for too long.... sliding door is going in tomorrow, walls has been partially chased (would be complete if the ladder hadn't bloody given way underneath me ffs)...
 
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ToxicBunny said:
, walls has been partially chased
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In my opinion the worst part of any renovation! When I moved into my new place I spent a couple of days cutting pipes into the lounge, bedroom and study walls. Everything is covered in that red dust, especially your lungs! :sick:

Following your progress closely!
 
FYI for future projects, you can rent a wall chaser with a vacuum cleaner that sucks the dust in. Works really well. I paid R280 from coastal plant hire for such a setup.
 
I know you can rent them from places like Coastal...

But I'm going to be doing a fair chunk of renovations over the next 2 years... was cheaper for me to go and buy a rotary hammer drill instead and use that to chisel out the chases and such.
Plus i get an industrial strength drill out of instead of just nicely chased walls.
 
ToxicBunny said:
I know you can rent them from places like Coastal...

But I'm going to be doing a fair chunk of renovations over the next 2 years... was cheaper for me to go and buy a rotary hammer drill instead and use that to chisel out the chases and such.
Plus i get an industrial strength drill out of instead of just nicely chased walls.
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I also used my renovations as an excuse to go and buy loads of tools!
 
heartbroken said:
I also used my renovations as an excuse to go and buy loads of tools!
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Quite happy I bought the rotary hammer drill atm actually.

Turns out the guy who measured for my door, got it slightly wrong so its 10mm too high for the opening. The guys installing the door were incredibly happy when i pulled it out otherwise they'd have spent hours with a bolster and hammer making the opening fit just right.

Will post photos of the door later today when its all finished.
 
Rotary hammer must be my favourite DIY tool. There's just something extremely satisfying pulling that baby out and start destroying ****
 
We also had our study redone this year (along with all our bathrooms).

This is the result....

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Very very awesome... I'm going thru my entire house and practically every room is being renovated or redecorated. Gonna take me at least 2 years
 
Window taken out
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Completed Opening
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Sliding door pretty much completed (just a bit of plastering left to do)
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Ok boys and girls...

While I have some other major building work on going at the house this week... I'm gonna spend some of my free time working in the study (its been a wreck for too long now)...
What do you guys reckon, should I chase the wall so that I can mount a tv to the wall properly or not?
 
ToxicBunny said:
Ok boys and girls...

While I have some other major building work on going at the house this week... I'm gonna spend some of my free time working in the study (its been a wreck for too long now)...
What do you guys reckon, should I chase the wall so that I can mount a tv to the wall properly or not?
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Yes, but do it properly and run some extra cat6 into the ceiling as well, while you're at it. You can do a hell of a lot with a couple of cat6 connections.
 
Messugga said:
Yes, but do it properly and run some extra cat6 into the ceiling as well, while you're at it. You can do a hell of a lot with a couple of cat6 connections.
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Trust me on this.. I will not want for Cat6 in the ceiling, I have enough conduit going into the wall to take easily 96 cables of Cat5/Cat6.....
 
Right.. chasing all done now (hopefully)..

Will take a picture later today when the dust has settled and the conduiting is in the wall.
 
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