Re: Re: building a house..

[Tom Young <tyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks - I was trying to do that with what I described in my post.  I
initially figured a cat5e & tv cable to each room, then on further
consideration I double that to 2 each so I could separate telephone from
LAN if I want to, and each room can be both source and destination for
the TV signals.  I then talked to the subcontractor and found out he's
only charging me $45 per outlet for that configuration, so now I'm
thinking one per wall rather than one per room, with extras here and
there.  I'm not sure he was planning on routing them with tubing,
though, so we'll see what the real price tag is.  I've already got the
extra electrical outlets in the plan as the architect drew it, and plan
to get that in writing for the builder as well (since his sub does his
own electrical plan, rather than use the architect's).

My confusion is currently what to spec for the audio component, and what
home-automation wiring to include and where.

egelbeertje wrote:

>Hi Tom,
>
>As far as cabling goes - ther is a rule outhere especially for cat 5 -
> to put twice as much as you think you're going to need and then
>double it.
>
>Talking from experience - we build our house 4 years ago and I only
>applied the first part of that rule - reason for me hacking through
>full concrete walls & ceiling and replastering every so often now.
>
>I resorted to x10 because of lack of cat5 in uncommon places - no
>real problems over the 2 years I use it now - but then it was a brand
>new electricity layout and I have everything hard wired as backup (a
>real switch to control the x10 rail dimmers etc which required
>another bit of hacking & plastering)
>
>Another tip - make sure you have enough wall sockets - the missus
>thought I was crazy when I asked the electrician to triple the amount
>of wall sockets - and now she's the one adding splitters to every
>socket since she likes the fancy lights around the house and changes
>them position every week or so - she just had to get used to it I
>guess but is thankful now ;-)
>
>hope this helps.
>
>rgds Rob
>
>