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Wire organizer

Completion date: January 31, 2019


Taobao suggested this item to me, wire organizer costing at RMB2.2 each.  At home we own 3 pieces of very long wire and two of them has been coming out. I tried the smaller adhesive cable clips twice and still they are either falling off, or all crooked. 


Now when I saw this I didn't think of the white wire organizer that I used to see in hardware stores. But the advantage of this is also because it houses up to 5 wires (though I only have 2 wires, haha). The organizer can be fixed by screws or adhesive tape. I thought, hey, I can reuse this on screws. So I bought it. 

Enough for the stories. How I installed this:
  1. I took a book of around 1.5cm thick to get the proper and unified spacing leveled from the floor.

2. The important note was to start from the corner!  (So then you won't end up with spaces when you get to the corner. I learnt it the hard way...my wall has triple number of holes.)

3. With the organizer's base standing up, drilled directly into the wall through the organizer's holes. Drilled only around 3mm deep, it was for the screw (pointed type) to catch on to the hole more easily. Drilled at the top of the hole, not middle

4. Drove the screws in with a screwdriver



5. After installing all the bases, put the cables in the slots. 


6. Snapped the organizer covers onto the bases.

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