I can barely feel my fingers.

A finished rewiring

Iodynamics finished the big rewiring job for one of our clients yesterday. We did the first phase of the job about three weeks ago and rewired the top two floors of their building. Yesterday, we finished by doing the remaining floor — the basement.

The basement had it’s own set of challenges since, unlike the top two floors, there were no false ceilings. If we needed to access the wiring in the ceiling or walls, we had to cut through finished drywall. We ended up cutting about a dozen holes in various places to get to the wires.

The goal was to replace older network wiring with new wiring that would be capable of providing gigabit per second network speed. In addition to running new wiring, we also installed a 48-port patch panel, new 10/100 switches and an 8-port gigabit switch.

My fingers are all swollen and rough today. All the punching down of twisted pair wire; All the untwisting of the individual wires; All the pulling of cables... It takes a toll on your hands.

Because of all the work I’ve been doing at our new home as well, my hands haven’t really had much of a break the last three weeks or so. Because we’re getting close to being finished with the work at the house, hopefully my hands will go back to being soft and healthy. :-)