Need help with recommendations to wire up house

10 years ago

Building home and roofing and framing are complete. Pretty soon electrician will be coming through. Budget on home is starting to get a little out of hand though. Wanted to put money in things that would be hard to place after the drywall is up. Therefore won't be able to get my entire home speaker setup immediately but did what to have electrician pre-wired what he can.

Therefore my question is what wires do I need to make sure are present to make installation at a later date easier? Sorry I'm still a newbie at all this home wiring.

Was thinking of having cat6 wires placed, how many ethernet Jacks would I need? If one jack is for the audio with sonos, do I need a separate jack for my Internet or are the cables just split with some sort of hub so separate cables do not need to be pulled? Being charged about $.60 per foot for cable run, is that reasonable?

Was thinking of having wired ceiling speakers to a sonos connect, is that recommended? A/v store was recommending sonance speakers, are they decent or anything better I can go with that are better bang for the buck?

Wanted to setup for a wired NAS system where I can play my ripped blu rays to any tv without having to use a dvd or Blu-ray player? How would I go about setting that up?

Lastly would like to setup home for home security and automation at some point in the future when funds allow it. What wires would I need?

I also spoke to a guy who puts in home automation and he recommended that I just have a PVC pipe extend from the crawl space to the attic and that would make things easier in the future to run wires. Sounds like good advice but didn't know how accurate this recommdation is.

Thank you and any help would be appreciated

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steve_o
10 years ago
Rather than guess which wires you may need and how you may use your home in the future, I would take that last guy's advice and just install conduit between each room and between floors. That way 1) you can install pretty much any wire you want in almost any quantity you want; and 2) you take a big step toward future-proofing your home.

Standards for some systems (home automation, broadband access) are particularly fluid right now. I built a house in 2000 for which we installed two runs of Cat 5 and one run of coaxial to each room (two runs of coaxial to the living and family rooms). While 802.11 Wi-Fi has not eclipsed the speed of wired access, there is nothing we have ever done in that house that could not be handled by an 802.11ac wireless router. And they undoubtedly will get better over time, too.

If money is getting tight, don't overthink it. Put in the road and then anything you run on it will work.
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mtvhike
10 years ago
I would second steve_o's advice; standards are always changing and new wires will be needed. Make sure the PVC pipe is large enough and has no sharp bends.
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Audio Plus
10 years ago
Hire a low voltage integrator (custom A/V pro), home run all cables to a low voltage enclosure or head end. Data & RG6 cable to an enclosure, audio speakers to a head end for audio components
freeoscar
10 years ago
60 cents per foot sounds very inexpensive - did that include the terminations, cost of the cables, and cost of termination hardware?
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Audio Plus
10 years ago
Should be CAT6 and dressed for that amount. Normally, it's bid by room and application unless it's an extremely large custom home.