Re: What would you do differently?

[Matthew J Keay <mjkeay@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd have;

Planned purchases more/thought them through better - so I didn't end up
with unused junk.. (bush STB anyone?).

I'd have ran more cat5 (*grin*) and terminated it to a patch panel
rather than wall sockets - the sockets ended up being quite messy.

annnnd I'd force the rest of the family to use them - so things didn't
just end up being redundant. The amount of times I'd setup lights in the
lounge/etc to come on/go off automatically and they'd still be turned
on/off locally.. *grr!*

Ooh I wish I had the funds to self build >:)


On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 13:58, Stuart Grimshaw wrote:
> If you were doing your HA install again, and you knew then what you
knew
> now, what would you do differently?
>
> If I were re-doing the house like I have over the past twelve months,
I
> wouldn't be such a lazy gimp. I've totally re-decorated the house, and
I
> gave myself plenty of time to do each bit, but then went and left it
to
> the last minute and didn't get chance to do what I wanted :-( For
example,
> in the bedroom I have a cat5 outlet, but no cat5 attached to it
because I
> left myself too little time to get the floorboards up.
>
> The cableing from the living room to upstairs is tacked to the wall,
and
> looks a mess, I should have done that properly too.
>
> So, you've learned from your mistakes, so why not share them with the
> group, and the archive, what you have learned?
>
> Lets try and keep this on topic, at least for a few days, hopefully
the
> thread will have some good info in it, it'd be a shame to see it get
lost
> in the noise when searching on the archive site ...