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I'm wiring up my new house with lots of ethernet and some coax and hdmi. I found really cheap "j" hooks, made for PVC pipes, which work excellently for creating dirt cheap channels on unfinished ceilings.
My full map: Port Map
The hooks (top): Dirt Cheap Data Channel
That part of the plan seems to be working very well. The problem I'm having is more the small-scale organizing of wires on both sides of my wall mount board. I hung a sheet of plywood in place of sheetrock on one whole wall of a closet (aka the server room), and I didn't hang anything on the other side yet. So what I have is a fully open board that I have access to both sides of:
Outside (Face)
Inside (Inside the wall)
Eventually there's going to be a ton of wires on the inside and outside, and I'd like to organize them as much as possible. Plus the organization will help in the future when I have to run additional wires once the wall is together, since those will have to be fished up the wall. So I need some kinds of clips or hooks or *somethings* that I can firmly, permanently attach to wooden surfaces, but whose attachments to the cables themselves are easily undone.
I've had this same problem in the past, setting up similar wall-mounted networking equipment in customer's offices. There's never a good way to route cables around the boards. Only permanent things like zip-ties with nail holes in them. But nothing that's a clip you can repeatedly open and close so you can constantly modify it.
There seems to be lots of adhesive ones (which won't work long term on wood surfaces) or screw-down vynil ones that are far too permanent for what I'm trying to accomplish. In the past, I've used these, and manually drilled holes in each one so I could screw them to a wooden surface instead of using the adhesive on them. It did kind of work but I'm hoping to find an easier solution that's ready-made?
My full map: Port Map
The hooks (top): Dirt Cheap Data Channel
That part of the plan seems to be working very well. The problem I'm having is more the small-scale organizing of wires on both sides of my wall mount board. I hung a sheet of plywood in place of sheetrock on one whole wall of a closet (aka the server room), and I didn't hang anything on the other side yet. So what I have is a fully open board that I have access to both sides of:
Outside (Face)
Inside (Inside the wall)
Eventually there's going to be a ton of wires on the inside and outside, and I'd like to organize them as much as possible. Plus the organization will help in the future when I have to run additional wires once the wall is together, since those will have to be fished up the wall. So I need some kinds of clips or hooks or *somethings* that I can firmly, permanently attach to wooden surfaces, but whose attachments to the cables themselves are easily undone.
I've had this same problem in the past, setting up similar wall-mounted networking equipment in customer's offices. There's never a good way to route cables around the boards. Only permanent things like zip-ties with nail holes in them. But nothing that's a clip you can repeatedly open and close so you can constantly modify it.
There seems to be lots of adhesive ones (which won't work long term on wood surfaces) or screw-down vynil ones that are far too permanent for what I'm trying to accomplish. In the past, I've used these, and manually drilled holes in each one so I could screw them to a wooden surface instead of using the adhesive on them. It did kind of work but I'm hoping to find an easier solution that's ready-made?
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