I am building a new house and I am trying to prewire as much as possible. If price was not an object what would you pre-wire?

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Currently, I have my house being set up for Lutron RA2 lights

Putting 18/2 for speakers in each rooms

One cat5e by each room for a tablet/intercom

Cat5e for cameras

22/2 for Door/window contacts by all exterior doors and windows

smurftube by every room (where the intercom is for future growth).

18/2 by windows where I may want power shades.

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What else am I missing?

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Thank you

  • chuyskywalker@alien.topBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’m about to start building and I listed out all 128 runs of cable – highlights:

    • I’m not doing speaker runs. Maybe I’ll regret this, but voice assistants and whole-home audio just isn’t my family’s jam.
    • Every place I put an outlet, pull two runs
    • Just about every wall has a jack, minimum two per room
    • Dual runs for security cameras to at least all four corners of the house; I also have several interior cameras as well
    • Smurf tube
    • Sensors for windows & doors, even interior doors
    • Runs for access points
    • Runs for hardwired sensors
    • Runs to utilities (water shut off, power monitoring, water heater, even behind the washing machine)
    • Runs for water leak detection
    • A lot of the locations I’m pull cat to are NOT for ethernet, not at the outset anyway. My philosophy is that maybe someday down the line there would be some novel reason to have an ESP32 at the end of the run for a door sensor – until that time, though, wire is wire and I can just use the ethernet cord for a dumb reed switch loop, no big deal.

    And here it is in a visual drops location format