flynreelow
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- Dec 12, 2016
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New home owner - do I have options?
- Thread starter MicahJames
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After making an additional hole in what I believed to be an access to the attic (as previously shown in green) I may have hit another dead end. I made an eagles pilot hole and stuck a cam in there to see what I kept hitting and it looks like another 2x4 under the roof. Since I don’t really understand my roof layout I’m not sure exactly where I’m at right now. I may have to just find a hole new way to run wire to these cameras.
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windguy
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@micah - at least this time you didn't drill through the roof. Take that as a step in the right direction.
Making a portal close to the corner makes things a bit more difficult and less accessible, but not impossible.
Can you take a picture of your roofline, so we can see the layout. Can't tell by just looking at your corner eave picture on page 2.
If you have a roof layout, as shown below on the right side, then you might be seeing a Hip Rafter. Even if there is a rafter there you might be able to snake a cable into the attic.
Seeing a pic will answer that question. Don't give up hope just yet, but as I said earlier, before you drill another hole, you need to understand the roof design.
What size hole did you make.
Making a portal close to the corner makes things a bit more difficult and less accessible, but not impossible.
Can you take a picture of your roofline, so we can see the layout. Can't tell by just looking at your corner eave picture on page 2.
If you have a roof layout, as shown below on the right side, then you might be seeing a Hip Rafter. Even if there is a rafter there you might be able to snake a cable into the attic.
Seeing a pic will answer that question. Don't give up hope just yet, but as I said earlier, before you drill another hole, you need to understand the roof design.
What size hole did you make.
Sybertiger
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All I see it what appears to be another rafter. Are you sure you are pushing the camera parallel to the nearest rafter? Also, you never show what is below that 2 x 4....maybe it's just a cross brace 2 x 4.
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Three years ago, I needed to install four outside cameras under my eaves.
I went into the attic, looked around, and I decided that I would be better off hiring a professional to run the cables.
$1,200 later, I was glad I did because he needed to use an endoscope camera to determine how to get the cables from my attic to my garage where I set up a hardware station with a POE switch and a MOCA adapter that ran a coax to my outside Verizon splitter. I would have drilled holes in the wrong places had I attempted this.
I installed the cameras myself and learned how to crimp ethernet plugs to the ends of the cables. No conduit piping or junction boxes needed.
The installers thought that what I did was smart. Let them do the hard part, and I could do the easy part on my own time.
This year, I am going to replace the cameras with ones that have Sony Starvis image sensors. I am going to use universal Amcrest junction boxes this time because I don't want to leave holes in the eaves each time I replace the cameras every five years or so.
I went into the attic, looked around, and I decided that I would be better off hiring a professional to run the cables.
$1,200 later, I was glad I did because he needed to use an endoscope camera to determine how to get the cables from my attic to my garage where I set up a hardware station with a POE switch and a MOCA adapter that ran a coax to my outside Verizon splitter. I would have drilled holes in the wrong places had I attempted this.
I installed the cameras myself and learned how to crimp ethernet plugs to the ends of the cables. No conduit piping or junction boxes needed.
The installers thought that what I did was smart. Let them do the hard part, and I could do the easy part on my own time.
This year, I am going to replace the cameras with ones that have Sony Starvis image sensors. I am going to use universal Amcrest junction boxes this time because I don't want to leave holes in the eaves each time I replace the cameras every five years or so.