1st December 2009:

I managed to get another job done this evening. Having already run one CAT5 cable from the studio into the house via a suspended conduit (see earlier post) I wanted to make use of the capacity in the conduit for a telephone cable. In the end I simply run an additional CAT5 cable as this can be used for telecoms anyway using CAT5 adaptors. This gives me maximum scope as well - I might want the additional CAT5 to the house in the future, you never know. Anyway, the job was pretty easy as I had plenty of loose cable inside the house to allow me to use it to pull the new cable from the loft through the conduit into the studio. I simply taped the new cable to the existing feed and pulled them both through the conduit into the studio. The new cable was then run through the stud-work parallel with the existing one and clipped down neatly. Luckily the holes I had drilled for the original CAT5 was big enough to accommodate the additional one.