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!

  • andvell@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Another possibility would be to leave the hardware installed during showings, and make sure to say the house is wired professionally, but the hardware would not stay, but cables can be reused.

    As a buyer, I would like to see the cables hanging otherwise.

    If you remove the AP, leave pictures near their location saying it is wired and can be reused.

    For us in this sub, this would be a plus for the house.

  • magicimagician@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    You could just screw a blank plate without any box. Tape the wire to the plate first screw the plate to the ceiling or wherever. When the new owner wants to use it it will be easy. If they don’t they can paint over the box or stuff it back in the ceiling and patch it.

  • bigfoot_76@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Ubiquiti stuff is so cheap that you just leave it in place or the wire hanging out and mention “network ready” on the disclosure.

    They’ll either use it, replace it, or rip it out but let the buyer determine that. I’d purposely not buy a house if I found out had cat 6 in the ceiling and they purposely put a gang box in the ceiling causing me even more work after closing.

  • layer4andbelow@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I’d install a single gang box and let the wire dangle.

    I purposely ran all my ceiling wires to boxes. Easy for the next owner to add an AP mount or throw a cover over if they don’t want to use it.

    Everything runs back to patch panels in the basement (and is labeled), so all wiring conveys with the home and all hardware goes with me.

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    1 year ago

    just leave the APs up there, or buy some shitty used APs to put up there instead if you really want to bring your old ones over to your new house.

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    1 year ago

    So in my home, I did surface mount keystone boxes for all my APs already. I essentially have only have about 1-2” of blue cable showing before the box and then white cables going to my APs. I feel confident in saying when I eventually sell my home it will be perfectly acceptable to leave as is. Either taking the APs with me or offering whatever I use then with the home.

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    1 year ago

    Ok, so if you leave the ubiquiti ap’s, what about a controller? Do you leave that too?

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    1 year ago

    I pulled everything on my old house and just used some drywall patch for the holes, no one said anything