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Selling house that we had wired for Wireless POE AP's mounted on the ceiling (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Kinda like the title says. I had installed a full Ubiquiti Unifi system in my old house with two AP's, one upstairs and one downstairs. Removing the hardware to sell the house. What's the best way to "hide" those Cat6 cables sticking out? Instead of just having cables hanging from the ceiling? Use a keystone jack wall plate maybe? Just wondering what others might suggest to make it look "cleaner" for prospective buyers. Thanks, appreciate the advice!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Does it have to be done before showing? Can you ask the realtor to ask the prospective buyer(s) what they would prefer? Were I buying a new house having it pre-wired for APs would be a definite plus. If they don't want it, I'd suggest just leaving the wiring in place but patching the holes in the ceiling. That way if they later change their mind, or sell it, someone might still get some use out of it. If they do want it, then the "unsightliness" of it isn't gonna be an issue anyway when they install their own APs.

I wired our last house and left all the wiring intact, along with the patch-panel in the basement, and the wall plates in rooms that were hard-wired, but took all the networking equipment with us.

Tbh, I have no idea if the new owners are using any of the wiring, or pulled it all out. Our realtor never mentioned it. The AP (House was small-ish, so a single AP blanketed the whole house in Wifi signal.) wasn't an issue in our case 'cause it was mounted in an unfinished attic and wasn't visible. There was also no permanent wiring for it. I just ran a 50ft. pre-terminated ethernet cable from the AP to the switch. Took both the cable and AP with us when we moved.

The attic had a gap around the chimney that went all the way to the crawlspace, so I didn't even need to fish the AP cable through any walls. Most of the other rooms had existing Coax panels that I just replaced with Ethernet, and used the existing coax to fish the Ethernet in from the crawlspace. So easy. Wish our current house had that setup. Though it obviously wasn't the most thermally efficient. Typical for a ~120 year old house.