Re: pre-wire home - best practices?

[fergus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Fergus McMenemie)]

Pay the extra for any wiring you purchase and get the fancy coloured
stuff. Years later when you are extending or sorting anything it is much
simpler if you can imediatly identify alarm, data mains cables. It also
makes documenting the system clearer and simpler!


<stuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm just starting to wire a new home and was wondering if there is a
> document covering best practices. I'm going to install audio distribution,
> home automation (insteon at this point), home theatre, security cameras,
> multiple computer network spots etc.
>
> I've considered making dual runs of Cat6 to most locations as that seems
> most flexible but the baluns are certainly expensive. An alarm installer
> suggested running 3 RG59 cables to the HT projector and 14 gauge speaker
> wire to all speaker runs.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated or pointers to handy documents.
>
> Thanks.