Hey!
My girlfriend is going to be finishing off the basement in the house she is moving to starting in April.
It will be fully finished as a basement apartment. Her mother is going to live upstairs for a year or two until she has to move to the left coast for health reasons, at which time the entire house belongs to my girlfriend.
Anyway, I would like to advise her as to what cabling she should put into each and every room in the basement, and also up into the rooms upstairs, because she is "sheet rocking" the basement ceiling, or drywalling as we call it up here.
Or do you have a better idea for the ceiling?
So, alread existing upstairs we have (all fully finished):
Kitchen
Small dining area (dinette) attached to kitchen
Family room (half wall between family room and kitchen dinette area)
Living room/Dining room (dining room is set off slightly with a 2 foot alcove
Master Bedroom with full bath including jacuzzi
2nd bedroom
3rd bedroom
Full bathroom
Three season area out the back door off kitchen dinette
Unfinished garage which will be needed to hook into home automation to insure garage door is closed.
Basement (which is partially framed, but no drywall - only exterior framing with insulation) will have:
Full Kitchen (directly under kitchen above) with one lowered counter for possible computer/phone table/intercom/home automation screen
Open dining area
Master bedroom
Raised living room/family room
Storage/furnace/laundry room
So, in short, in order for her to have the capability for Audio, Video, and Home Automation in every room (including exterior lights, etc.), what cables do I have her put into each room.
We have the choice of cable TV through the phone lines, cable TV through traditional coax, and two Sat TV providers.
I want to automate the home reasonably well using something like HomeSeer running on a separate PC using X-10, or Z-Wave or structured wiring, but I want to be as flexible as possible. The home automation will be done after the basement is finished, but I want to have all options open, within reason $$$-wise.
So, how would you wire this place up?
I don't have any drawings but could make up one that would be from memory, only seeing the house from pictures taken by my girlfriend.
Anything else you need to know?
Thanks in advance.
Greg
(And, no, I'm not taking this away from Custom Installers. She/I/we cannot afford to have them do it. If I could, I would.)
My girlfriend is going to be finishing off the basement in the house she is moving to starting in April.
It will be fully finished as a basement apartment. Her mother is going to live upstairs for a year or two until she has to move to the left coast for health reasons, at which time the entire house belongs to my girlfriend.
Anyway, I would like to advise her as to what cabling she should put into each and every room in the basement, and also up into the rooms upstairs, because she is "sheet rocking" the basement ceiling, or drywalling as we call it up here.
Or do you have a better idea for the ceiling?
So, alread existing upstairs we have (all fully finished):
Kitchen
Small dining area (dinette) attached to kitchen
Family room (half wall between family room and kitchen dinette area)
Living room/Dining room (dining room is set off slightly with a 2 foot alcove
Master Bedroom with full bath including jacuzzi
2nd bedroom
3rd bedroom
Full bathroom
Three season area out the back door off kitchen dinette
Unfinished garage which will be needed to hook into home automation to insure garage door is closed.
Basement (which is partially framed, but no drywall - only exterior framing with insulation) will have:
Full Kitchen (directly under kitchen above) with one lowered counter for possible computer/phone table/intercom/home automation screen
Open dining area
Master bedroom
Raised living room/family room
Storage/furnace/laundry room
So, in short, in order for her to have the capability for Audio, Video, and Home Automation in every room (including exterior lights, etc.), what cables do I have her put into each room.
We have the choice of cable TV through the phone lines, cable TV through traditional coax, and two Sat TV providers.
I want to automate the home reasonably well using something like HomeSeer running on a separate PC using X-10, or Z-Wave or structured wiring, but I want to be as flexible as possible. The home automation will be done after the basement is finished, but I want to have all options open, within reason $$$-wise.
So, how would you wire this place up?
I don't have any drawings but could make up one that would be from memory, only seeing the house from pictures taken by my girlfriend.
Anything else you need to know?
Thanks in advance.
Greg
(And, no, I'm not taking this away from Custom Installers. She/I/we cannot afford to have them do it. If I could, I would.)
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