I live in a one-story ranch with an unfinished basement and attic, in the middle of a project where I’ll have access to a bare, un-drywalled wall. I know that eventually I’ll want to run low voltage/Ethernet cable from the basement out to my attached garage, probably through the attic as the garage is only separated from the rest of the attic by Sheetrock.
I just don’t know how much Ethernet cable I’ll be wanting to run.
I think conduit would probably be the best for traversal/future proofing this, but I have no clue what kind to get.
Any suggestions? Things I should look out for?
You can do this with PVC pipe and some glue and straps. Once you put the glue on and put the two pieces together, hold them tight together for a few seconds to let the glue set and prevent them from sliding apart a little bit. Your local code might dictate how far apart the straps should be, but generally you put a strap close to each end, and then spaced the same as your stud spaces along the length of the run. As for the size of the PVC that depends on your future needs… I would guess 1" or 1 1/4" would be more than enough? You can use a fishtape to pull your ethernet cables through. When you do this also pull through a string so that if you want to add cables in the future you can just use the string to pull them through. Always remember to pull a new string through for future you as its harder to get a fishtape a pipe with stuff already in it