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Things to request in home

10 years ago

I have the benefit of building a home and asking for certain wiring schemes. I thought I'd ask the forum for some suggestions. Maybe someone can help me condense some thoughts I have too.

1. Is it dumb to ask each living area have it's own dedicated electrical line? Like one line from the breaker box to an outlet and then from that outlet it can wire other outlets and the light fixture? The point is for power draw and to minimize if in one room there is power intensive devices. Besides cost, any draw backs to this?

2. Anything I should ask for now to save the headache for later? Some kind of surge suppression in breaker box?

3. Is it dumb to ask for some wiring to be done ahead of time for a power generator? I won't be able to put one in when the house is built but if it was wired to the location it would go, it would be as simple as installing it and starting it up.

4. Is it possible to have multiple direct to breaker box lines be ran to a single room? I have plans for a large aquarium which will use a lot of electricity out of a GFCI outlet. I plans to have this in a room with other power intensive equipment like a PC (far enough away tho for error). I thought about having a dedicated outlet for my PC equipment, one for the aquarium, and one for all other fixtures and outlets.


Thank you all very much. Any tips or things to provide will be greatly appreciated.

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