Wire Raceways

[oldtimer]

What do you recommend for wire raceways which can hold a rg6 and a cat5e simultaneously? The kicker is I have a short section of curved wall so I would like a flexible option for that portion. Suggestions?

[JJkizak]

In the wall or outside the wall?

JJK

[oldtimer]

Outside the walls, some concrete and some drywall. The curve is drywall.

[JL Sargent]

Wiremold C120 might do it. Check that out at their website. www.wiremold.com I think it is.

[oldtimer]

Nothing there that looks like it will do a convex curve. Anyone try this stuff? The sales rep told me it should work.

https://www.electriduct.com/Wire-Trak-Raceway-Roll.html

[DrWho]

I would just use standard conduit and a pipe bender.

[oldtimer]

Do you mean the round stuff? Wouldn't you have to run the whole thing through beforehand? I'm talking about 100 ft or slightly less of run with lots of turns including vertical as well as horizontal and joining a cat5e and a rg6 from 2 separate start points.

[Tremors]

Is this on the first floor? And if so do you have a basement or crawl space? Running it along the basement ceiling and popping up through a hole drilled in the floor where needed has worked well for me in the past.

[oldtimer]

Unfortunately while it is on one floor, it is on the 20th floor of a condo building made of concrete, no crawl space under or over.

[formica]

What do your baseboards look like?.... A multipart moulding assembly can replicate standard trim while leaving a hollow space to feed wires through. It something we see in historical buildings with varied wall materials (like exposed brick walls) that prohibits feeding the wires through the wall.

ROb

[oldtimer]

It's essentially matching quarter round for the laminate wood look floor. No actual traditional shoe mould type trim. I am thinking the best route is up close to the ceiling because of where the wire has to cross certain openings and the one wall which could serve as a route for staying low is all floor to ceiling windows and sliding glass doors. That would also be a longer route than the planned route, however it could avoid the curve while creating its own special problems.

[Panacea Engineering]

Do you plan to install the cables as you go or are you wanting to install the raceway and then pull the cables in? When you get near 360 degrees total in bending, it becomes almost impossible to pull the wires in, even with a Fish Tape or Pull String. if you are running over 100 feet, it is best to plan for a couple of Junction boexs along the way (If Pulling the Cable In). the Flexible Raceway should work fine for the curved wall as long as you can get the proper fittings for it. Exposed raceway work can be very challenging......

[oldtimer]

The products I would consider allow for putting in cable and then closing the channel, i.e. a hinged cover or overlapping slit. There will be no pulling.

[DrWho]

Do you mean the round stuff? Wouldn't you have to run the whole thing through beforehand? I'm talking about 100 ft or slightly less of run with lots of turns including vertical as well as horizontal and joining a cat5e and a rg6 from 2 separate start points.

I think I may have been confused before....are you trying to route this on top of existing walls?

The two ways we ran on top of walls when I worked as an audio installer were to just staple the cables to the wall (using a nicer grade cable that matches the wall color), or we would run wire inside trim. If you have drywall construction, it rarely goes down all the way to floor - though if you've got quarter round it might end up being too tight.

[TasDom]

Assuming the laminate floor was installed properly, there should be a minimum 1/4" gap around the perimeter between the laminate and the wall to allow for expansion and contraction. If that path works, maybe pull a piece of the quarter round to see what space is available......just a thought.