So I have lucked into a Lorex 4 camera DVR home camera system and I'm dead set on wiring it up myself. My house is two stories and the plan is to have one under the eaves on each corner with one covering the driveway, one covering the back door, one covering the front door and one covering the garage doors. All of the cameras will be out of reach.
The problem is the wiring. What I would have preferred was to drill through the soffit, have them meet centrally in a small unfinished space upstairs along the AC lines or some such and run them down to the man cave in the basement where my DVR is located, but there's no way to get them down there without running them through the wet wall on two of the corners. No attic access. Wires exposed isn't an option, so what I'm planning to do instead is run conduit up each corner beside the downspouts, drilling through the wall just above the foundation and entering the house that way. These will unfortunately be within reach on three of the four corners.
So, for any contractors and anyone else with experience doing this: how difficult is it to run wires up through the wet wall of a house? Is my thinking with the conduit a better option? Aesthetics aren't an issue as they'll be by downspouts and match my paint anyway.
The problem is the wiring. What I would have preferred was to drill through the soffit, have them meet centrally in a small unfinished space upstairs along the AC lines or some such and run them down to the man cave in the basement where my DVR is located, but there's no way to get them down there without running them through the wet wall on two of the corners. No attic access. Wires exposed isn't an option, so what I'm planning to do instead is run conduit up each corner beside the downspouts, drilling through the wall just above the foundation and entering the house that way. These will unfortunately be within reach on three of the four corners.
So, for any contractors and anyone else with experience doing this: how difficult is it to run wires up through the wet wall of a house? Is my thinking with the conduit a better option? Aesthetics aren't an issue as they'll be by downspouts and match my paint anyway.
