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Cabling
Cable management standards
The cable-dressing standards that keep a smart home serviceable years after handover.
Best practices
- Photograph every cable tray before ceilings close
- Maintain an as-built cable schedule per home
Common mistakes
- Over-tightening zip-ties on Cat6
- Bundling more than 24 cables in one run without heat calc
- No slack — no room for future re-termination
Engineering checklist
- Every cable labelled at both ends
- Minimum bend radius respected
- Data separated from power by 30 cm minimum in parallel runs
- Velcro straps not zip-ties inside the rack
- Slack loops at every termination for future re-terminations
Recommended workflow
- Cable schedule agreed
- First-fix pull + label
- Testing (Fluke / continuity)
- Dressing + slack loops
- Photo record