How to Properly Cable a Building

Jim Gibson shows us the ins and outs of cabling a building, and offers great advice learned from his own personal experiences.
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[@farazsiddiqui6689]

Jim your videos are great. Thank you!. Praying for your continued good health and prosperity.

[@CableSupply]

I need all the prayers that I can get. Thank you for your kind comments.

[@DJD1411]

Lets not skip labeling. BICSI and ANSI standards are to label both ends of horizontal and backbone cable runs. A lot of places like colleges and government installations demand tha BICSI and ANSI standards are met. Also.........if you have a certifier.......certify the cable. These are not OPTIONS in many places. Labeling, testing, and certifying are a part of most structured cabling jobs.

[@johnschroeder3072]

I personally number each cable both end logically and leave the ends hanging out of the wall then terminate at the patch panel and finish but terminating the ports. It works well and makes troubleshooting later easier

[@701garage]

I label all my cables like this. When I do office building I will start at one side and run all my cables in order doing the patch panel as I go. I think this saves me a lot of time. Then when I am all done I give them a map and layout of every port in each room that they can put up on a wall.

[@CableSupply]

Good for you but this method costs a lot of time and labor on big jobs. Check out my "Cable Identifier Combo Pack" (SKU 102440). I designed this product on one of my BIG jobs, over 800 drops, saved me weeks worth of time. Checkout my videos on this subject, kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3aqnmuoqMahqqc and kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZrSq3aPqs1gfKc

[@josegcenteno21]

Hey Jim, thank a LOT for your videos, they are great, i ve learn so much from them, keep up the good work.

[@raheelamer364]

Thanks Jim for sharing ur Knowledge.....

[@marcink99]

Jim thank you for the videos they help a lot.

[@BobSince1981]

Cool tips. Really wanting to pick up the cable identifier in the near future.

[@sheldonstevens5574]

Thanks Jim great tips.

[@trevormasterson8035]

Great Video Jim.

[@livingthedreamwade347]

I love your videos because if I can remove a step and still get the job done with 100% quality and satisfaction I'm happy

[@antoniosbriefcase]

Thanks for the vids

[@livingthedreamwade347]

25 year zero callbacks that's word of mouth enough references to prove you're right

[@enriquegabriel7708]

You opened my eyes about the Fluke Certifier. If we use products with high quality, we won´t have problems. Probably there is no need to invest all that money for that tester...

[@michaelcostello6991]

Great practical information

[@CableSupply]

Glad you liked it

[@oussamabaatour3835]

u'r awesome uncle Jim

[@Kunstentech]

You are GREAT !!! buying your tools now

[@CableSupply]

I appreciate that!

[@lvcabletechnologies7682]

Makes perfect sense. I don't label the cords unless the customer request that I do so. I label the face plates and give them a report for the plates and patch panel

[@guardianangel5254]

10+ years experience cabling. I always label my cables and terminate in order. God forbid someone comes back and removes my faceplate label based the jack to "Left or right" it can be narrowed down quickly.

[@MrLeo3780]

That weighs 2 time-consuming you punched on the cables in any order and you give the Jack number very simple

[@johnnykaju6175]

I enjoy watching these vidz but really were doing floors out here in Northern California with well more then 300 cables per idf with two idf per floor everything is numbered and everything is nice I would hate to by over 300 leds I would just by a sharpe lol

[@ShudrodWatts]

what is the proper pricing for cable runs ? $100 on up a run? and additional over 300 ft?

[@shaffey01]

it also makes it easier for testing purposes

[@MrLeo3780]

He's so right

[@CableSupply]

Thanks!!

[@livingthedreamwade347]

Another man with ethics oh my God I'm going to have a heart attack lol

[@mardoc77]

You say 1:15 per location to install jack. What if the jack has 4 outlets how long does it take in new construction? Also what is the breakdown of the rough in, finish and test take? The reason I ask is they are typically not done at the same time.

[@CableSupply]

There's a lot of variables in your question. How big is the job? how far are the pulls? how many technicians are on the job? I think you can add about an additional 15 minutes to a half-hour for each additional Jack at the same location. If I was pulling four (4) cables to one location and I had to Jack four (4) RJ45 at the same location I would probably estimate around 2 hours or more or less total. The other variables is how many locations are you putting in in this building.? and how many boxes of cable are you pulling from? To give you precise answers for each phase of this installation would be impossible. My average was about 1 hour and 15 minutes for each location to pull the cable to punch it down the set finish label test and now walk out the door. If you're installing one cable location in one building obviously it's going to take you a lot longer. because setting up the job, getting tools and equipment into the building will take longer for one pull verse 20 pulls per pull. if you're putting in 25 cables then 1 hour and 15 minutes per location is a average. Estimates are just educated guesses! The more experience you have the better your estimates will be. These are estimates that have worked for me. Hope this helps.

[@mardoc77]

@@CableSupply About 30 Locations. We are going to put 2 locations in each office with 3-4 outlets each. It is a 50ft x 60ft office building. The server room is going to be upstairs in the middle of the building with about a 6ft ceiling. There is a 9ft ceiling downstairs. I don't know if they are going to have drop ceiling between floors or just sheetrock. There will only be myself and a helper on the job(2 techs). I am figuring about 50ft of cable avg per run, that may not be enough. I am horrible at estimating! However, I did figure 2 Hours per location with 4 outlets. Thanks for your help your videos are awesome!

[@Michel777]

I wonder how the patch panels are labeled. How does somebody know, looking at the label on the patch panel, where in the building the matching wall socket is? With my labeling system it's chrystal clear where the other side of the the cable is going, by only looking at the label, no floorplan needed.

[@CableSupply]

You mark the floor plan

[@JeffAPierson]

serialized cabling is a must. generally I match port to switch port. the reason; five years later, trying to troubleshoot remotely it is incredibly time saving if you know which office goes to which port that goes to each switch port and knowing they are serialize, officemone, port one, switch port one, makes life so much easier. sure, not worrying about port numbers makes it easier for the cable installer, but over the life time of the facility, unserialized numbering cost many,many hours of time. love your videos but you are not thinking long term for thefscility/ it manager,.

[@codebluelsj]

It did waste too much time if you label the cable and terminate them in order. but cable identifier? I prefer to power up a 48 ports switch and run a DHCP server see if my laptop can ping the DHCP server. lol The walkie-talkie is brilliant idea BTW.

[@mikeendsley8453]

This guy knows his shit... awesome video!

[@alexville3203]

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,10

[@livingthedreamwade347]

My company charges $200 an hour my customers are paying me to do the best job I can and I will give them nothing but the best

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[@chaunceyc3271]

Nothing worse then working with spaghetti !!!

[@CableSupply]

you are right!!

[@Jimmy-Legs]

Disagree completely

[@chuckbalogh296]

Why? What point are you contesting?