Friends of us just bought a house nearby. They asked me if I could take a look at the "cabling" in their new house. I've seen a lot DIY cabling and I've always said that the house were I lived when I studied was kept upright only by the amount of cabling we added.

But this house really is something special! Yesterday I already removed enough coax television-cable to simply plugin the house to the transmitter which is only a few kilometers further. Would have resulted in a much better signal I guess. Then there was this huge professional alarm which was installed. This was all done after the house was build, so almost all the wiring was done underneath the floor and along the walls. Then there was the doorbell with a seperate intercom system. In the hallway there were two buzzers next to each other. One for the doorbell, and one for the intercom, which was triggered by the doorbell. Why mount an extra buzzer?

The analog phone system added an extra level of wire running through the house. Every room had at least one phone-socket and they were wired all in parallel! No switchboard was used. Just take a look at the pictures in my gallery to see how this was done the old-fashioned way...