I am building a house and I had the electrician run 2+2 structured wire during the framing process and stated that I would be doing the wiring and supplying my own jacks. (My father is the General Contractor)
I go to look at the house the other day and notice that the electrician had put jacks in throughout the house. Oh well I think.."This will save me some time" I then notice that they wired the basement central location as well and realized that they did not do this correctly. What they have done is wired all the video correctly (as if they could mess that up) BUT they wired all of the cat5e jacks as phone lines? Now that they have stripped the jacket away and untwisted the twisted pairs I am very pissed off. Is this salvageable? I am thinking that if I get new RJ45 jacks (since they put in RJ11) and re twist the pairs and add some heat shrink jacket to them I might be able to save an installation that is now worthless.
Am I correct in this thought? (God I hope so) Here are some pictures of the work that they did so you can see my concern at where the Cat5e terminates.
1. Picture of a jack pulled from the wall. Notice that all twisted pairs are there but the jacket has been removed and some of the twisted pairs are not "twisted". Can I retwist these, heat shrink, and terminate on RJ45 cable?
http://www.wdcohio.com/ebay/jack.jpg
2. Image of the basement wiring job:
http://www.wdcohio.com/ebay/patch1.jpg
3. Close up of the patch block:
http://www.wdcohio.com/ebay/patch2.jpg
Can I save this? If not I am not sure what I could have the electrician do to compensate for not having this capability in my house as the house is going to be done around the 20th of this month.
Aggghhh...I hope someone smarter than I can tell me if this is salvageable.
Thanks in advance,
Kevin
I go to look at the house the other day and notice that the electrician had put jacks in throughout the house. Oh well I think.."This will save me some time" I then notice that they wired the basement central location as well and realized that they did not do this correctly. What they have done is wired all the video correctly (as if they could mess that up) BUT they wired all of the cat5e jacks as phone lines? Now that they have stripped the jacket away and untwisted the twisted pairs I am very pissed off. Is this salvageable? I am thinking that if I get new RJ45 jacks (since they put in RJ11) and re twist the pairs and add some heat shrink jacket to them I might be able to save an installation that is now worthless.
Am I correct in this thought? (God I hope so) Here are some pictures of the work that they did so you can see my concern at where the Cat5e terminates.
1. Picture of a jack pulled from the wall. Notice that all twisted pairs are there but the jacket has been removed and some of the twisted pairs are not "twisted". Can I retwist these, heat shrink, and terminate on RJ45 cable?
http://www.wdcohio.com/ebay/jack.jpg
2. Image of the basement wiring job:
http://www.wdcohio.com/ebay/patch1.jpg
3. Close up of the patch block:
http://www.wdcohio.com/ebay/patch2.jpg
Can I save this? If not I am not sure what I could have the electrician do to compensate for not having this capability in my house as the house is going to be done around the 20th of this month.
Aggghhh...I hope someone smarter than I can tell me if this is salvageable.
Thanks in advance,
Kevin