Re: If building a house would you use X-10?

["Tracey Gardner" <tracey.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Mark

The cost of the CAT5 is negligible, especially if you flood wire the place
and buy lots at one time.
The point to bear in mind is that if you go down the home-run cabling with
centrally located relays/dimmers route, you will need to run your mains
wiring as radials back to these centrally located points in order to be
able
to control it.
I have six sub-consumer units located in my self-build and all the mains
wiring is run back in 4mm T&E as radials.
There are multiple CAT5 feeds to all the sub-consumer unit points.

Tracey



> I've been planning my retirement home for a while now and was thinking
> that I'll have a unique opportunity of being able to install some
things
> that would be too much trouble in a completed house.  If you were in
the
> same boat would you use X-10 or maybe something else like home-run
cabling
> with centrally located relays/dimmers?  What do you see as pluses and
> minuses (besides the cost of wire)?
>
> Mark
>



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