Pulling The Cable; Concealing Sensor Cable In Existing Walls - Niles Remote Control Anywhere Kit Operation Manual

INSTALLATION FUNDAMENTALS
against the bottom of the
ceiling joists. Then work
backward so that you can
always see the holes you
have already drilled. Paying
careful attention to this will
save you a lot of time later!

Pulling the Cable

Whenever you run the cable
farther than 4-1/2 feet from
a hole in a stud or joist
(open attic space, going up
walls, etc.), fasten the cable
to the joists or studs using
cable clamps or appropri-
ately sized cable staples.
The cable should not have
large sags in it, nor should it
be too tight. Try to protect
the cable from being
stepped on in attics or other
unfinished crawl spaces.
There are guard strips, race-
ways and conduits which
can be used to protect the
cable. Consult the local
building code for special
requirements in your area.
Concealing
Sensor Cable in
Existing Walls
This is actually a fairly
simple task if you restrict
your choice of the Wall-
Mount Sensor location and
cable routes to the interior
walls or ceilings of
your home. Interior
walls in almost all
North American
residences are hol-
low, so that it is
easy to flush
mount the
Wall-Mount
Sensor into them
and route new
Sensor Cable
around the house.
What you see
when you look at
the painted wall
board, plaster, or paneling is
only the skin of the wall.
Behind the skin is the skele-
ton; two-by-four wood or
metal "studs" running verti-
cally from the floor to the
ceiling in walls and 2 x 6 or
larger "joists" running hori-
zontally in the ceilings and
floors. In between the studs
and the joists is the space
for the wiring and plumbing
of your home.
Exterior walls are different.
They must insulate the
house from the heat and
cold outside, so they are
stuffed with insulation. The
national building code
requires that the hollow wall
space in exterior walls be
broken by a horizontal stud
placed between the vertical
studs. This "fire blocking"
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Figure 24
Wall-Mount
Sensor
Location
makes it very difficult to
retrofit long lengths of cable.
In some areas of the country
the exterior walls are
constructed of solid
masonry, and have no
hollow space for cables.
Start by examining all the
possible routes you might
take to run the Sensor Cable
from the Wall-Mount Sensor
location to the A/V compo-
nents to be controlled. Use a
stud sensor or other device
to locate the internal
structure of the wall. You
want to avoid all studs or
joists. A typical route (See
Figure 24) would be from
the Wall-Mount Sensor loca-
tion up the inside of the wall
to a new hole drilled into the
top "plate" (horizontal 2 x 4
at the top of the inside of the
Stereo
Location