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| Thread ID: 46067 | 2004-06-12 06:24:00 | O/T smart wiring | Young Tom (5503) | Press F1 |
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| 243736 | 2004-06-17 02:08:00 | >>I really meant passive solar design. Ah,yes I have got all of the above,but thanks for your very very valuable input. |
Young Tom (5503) | ||
| 243737 | 2004-06-17 05:49:00 | >Don't rely on your > electrician, as I have found that most house wiring > sparkies shy away from learning anything new sadly my friend (a sparked) talked my out of doing surround sound wiring in my house. then I won a home theatre and it is now almost impossible to wire up the speakers (due to the slant of my roof) > While you're thinking wiring, don't scrimp on power > sockets and lighting either. People building houses > seem to do this to cut costs and it is virtually > impossible to add stuff later. Make sure you have > plenty of power sockets in every room, and two-way > switching on lights where you want it. Cable is > cheap. You can always use a cheaper paint or wall > paper or carpet - these can be replaced when you can > afford something better, but stuff inside the walls > needs to be there at the start. but my sparked friend did make me put in about 20 millon power points as well as remote control switches for my lights (these are good for when the other half wants to change the room around.It was fine as it was) outrider :-) |
outrider (4714) | ||
| 243738 | 2004-06-17 06:38:00 | If you want my advice, besides plenty of electrical sockets, tv jacks ect. With regard to home theater and network, i'd just put a few holes in walls, AND BUILD WIRING GUTTERS. that way, you can just swap the cabeling around anytime u need to |
Will Hunt (3655) | ||
| 243739 | 2004-06-18 00:50:00 | I quite fancied the idea of using hinged skirting boards. Unfortunately everyone thought I was nuts and the mrs wasn't too keen. |
antmannz (28) | ||
| 243740 | 2004-06-18 02:37:00 | Now there is some lateral thinking! | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 243741 | 2004-06-18 03:07:00 | Skirting trunking has been around for 30 years or much more. Making it look "normal" in a domestic scenario is the biggest challenge. Keeping discrimination distances between mains power and comms cabling is not easy either. Not usually possible with acceptable sized trunking. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 243742 | 2004-06-18 03:40:00 | what would anyone think about putting in some fiber?? one run of fiber to each room?? all back to the patch board?? |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 243743 | 2004-06-18 05:55:00 | Interfacing the fibre to commonly available appliances would be an expensive challenge. | godfather (25) | ||
| 243744 | 2004-06-20 07:58:00 | Appropos of nothing, Tony's post reminded me, Monty Python did a lovely sketch for architects: www.intriguing.com |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
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