Considerations for Raised Floor Installation?

shanm asks: "I'm wondering if the community would have any recommendations and or cost rules of thumb on a raised floor installation. I'm considering doing that in a basement room (soon to be PC room and office) to make network/power wiring easier, modifiable, and expandable. The biggest constraint is that the basement doesn't have a 9 or 10 foot ceiling. So I don't have an unlimited height on the floor."

Comments

basement bad

[Apreche]

basement bad! water, flooding, other things in basement! You definitely don't want to do it in your basement, especially in a normal house.

Maybe raised floor isn't the answer...

[rocjoe71]

...when you're in a basement, *IF* there's any flooding, it's going to soak all your wiring and whatever else you stash under the floor.

What about installing a hanging ceiling and running the wires overhead? ... You could run the wires inside PVC tubing (or whatever you prefer) that's strapped to the beams of your basement ceiling, then hang the ceiling tiles afterwards, at your leisure.

Lets ask why raised floors were invented

[tod_miller]

They were invented not because of any type of ceiling height excess, but because the distance from the walls were too far to channel and cable around lots of annoying things.

You basement, forget the ceiling height, that is oh so redundant.

Are you going to have more than 10 PC towers plugged in at seatable desks? (and that is still a low return on investment).

If you room isn't being planned to fit 5/6 desks and some central desks that do not have easy wall access, then I think the idea of a floor installation is laughable.

Once again: unless you *need*, and by need I mean you understand the reasoning behind raised floor 'stalls, them for a purpose, why bother?

Also there is a new technology just around the corner, I mean, like maybe in 20-50 years, called WiFi, I think that is what it is called, i am sure I was googling for something unrelated and an engadget page with info on it popped up (WHATEVER I search for on google I end up with an FUCKING engadget page showing in the results, weblogs inc shoudl be sued for aggressively poisoning google. fucktards).

Shit, I lost track of parenthesis, this started out as an insightful post, I don't know where it ended up.

fucking weblogs inc.