Digital Plumbing

So, I'm sitting here watching the clock tick down towards the 2nd of May when the central heating installation begins. The cost, I've come to terms with, the disruption, I've not.

The house will be a bomb site for the 3-4 days the plumber will be here. He's got a good reputation for clearing up after himself but while the work is being done the sheer mess will be hard to cope with. Carpets lifted, floor boards up, holes being drilled everywhere, no hot water for periods, furniture moved to accommodate the installation, hell, sheer hell. I wonder if I can pack Lesley off to her mothers for a bit (she'll be hell to live with).

Anyhoo, that's when I thought of a silver lining to all this disruption. Grab the opportunity of the carpets and floor boards being lifted and run a few lengths of CAT5 cable around the place (specifically from the office upstairs down to the living room and sun lounge). Wireless is all very well but when it comes to transmitting serious data around the place you canny beat some cable. Video to the living room from the office, recorded on the PVR, nice. Maybe some MP3s playing in the sun lounge on a networked media player like the Roku or SliMP3 streamed from a Network Storage Device, heaven.

Cable is cheap, might as well take this opportunity now and digitally plumb the house for future gadget purchases :)

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