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!
Keystone looks best
Keystone wallplate and call it a day.
It’s best sometimes to just reset them through the controller and leave them behind. Buy new at the new place.
Leave it, with a note of the URL to the owners manual online.
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.
I think the APs are a fixture and likely included with the house unless the contract expressly excluded the equipment.
Don’t forget to talk to your realtor about this.
It was agreed upon that I would be removing all the UniFi devices. Our realtor is also one of my wife’s best friends so I’m sure everything was written the way it needed to be.
Keystone jack wall plate will prob be the cleanest solution
Well hooooooooly crap I was not expecting this much response!!
So some things to note.
House is being sold as a result of divorce. We’ve both moved on to our own spaces and neither of us have any need for networking as substantial as what I built in that house (I’m in a one bedroom apartment, she’s living with friends). It’s not just Wi-Fi that I had, it was a full UDM SE, POE switch, and cameras too. All the equipment will be sold and we are splitting whatever money I get for it all.
Our realtor (ex wife’s good friend) was afraid leaving everything up would be a negative in selling as the setup was far more advanced than the average person would understand. So everything has been removed.
At this point I think the simplest way is to just put a couple wall plates with keystones over the hole that the Ethernet is coming out and calling it a day. But I’m going to look through all the suggestions when I’m off work this afternoon before I do anything! Thanks again for all the responses!!
I would remove them and use them again and replace them with inexpensive A/P’s as it will look better than a faceplate just get a generic white A/P. Anyone who knows networking will understand they can install there own easily. Anyone who doesn’t will think nothing of them as they blend in where a faceplate is like why and the generic A/P answers the why. I would also replace the switch with a cheap POE switch.
After all it is several hundred thousand dollars (I am assuming).
I would leave the entire network in place. Equipment gets obsolete so fast, you are better off buying new stuff in your new house.
When we sold our house in Dallas back in March I left all the Home Automation installed. This included the ceiling mounted APs on each floor. I unclaimed the APs and left the Controller for all the lighting etc. I changed the login info for SmartThings to a generic Gmail Account and handed over the password at closing. I have no clue if it helped sell the house or not as it was sold BEFORE it officially posted on the MLS system. I want to believe it helped though.
I left the network wire hanging out my hallway ceiling. I also left a lengthy note about the house and included what that wire is for in the note so they don’t try to plug something else into it.
My grandpa to this day still has these old spring mechanical fire alarms that went off when the beeswax melted. He was also the first to tell you that you wouldn’t be alive by the time the wax melted. They just added character to the house.
I asked the buyer if he wanted the ubiquity access points and explained nothing was plug and play / everything would be factory reset. He said take them so I snipped the cable ends and pulled any loose wires or pushed them into the drywall and mudded the holes.
Poke the connectors behind the drywall and mud it up. Will look better than faceplates
You had some downvotes but I like this idea.
Except I’d ask the new but what they’d prefer. Or maybe just let them do it?