If you are considering making a custom wiring for your home, you should do your research and understand all your options. Many home builders often will not present all the options available to you. They will follow your list of options and be quick to say "no". If you are building with a national builder, you may need to be more inflexible and put some money up front. Just about any custom builder go above and beyond your expectations.
With any project of building the house, you will need to review the floor plans. I assume that you already visually determined where your furniture is and how you will design the interior. I highly suggest making a copy of the floor plan and use colored pencils to make the points of low voltage and hardware. Use different colors for the speakers, satellite receivers and cable network as all these require different types of yarn. The wires should all lead back to a central location. This is where you will put your control panel. Usually people like to have this located in a closet or even the laundry room.
Central control panels offer the best possible solution to keep everything organized. If you have the space to add some shelves to the side, you can be even more flexible. You can put your network router, and the DVD player and audio receiver on the shelves and hold them through an infrared control from anywhere in the house (assuming you hanging by a thread). This may allow you to send the DVD (or DVR) signal for each television that is connected when you do not miss out when you're doing a race or go drink some popcorn.
Wiring low voltage new home construction is fast becoming a new standard in high-tech market today. Although computer networks are moving quickly to the industry Wireless, certain electronic connections are still needed for full house audio, video and security. More and more homeowners are preparing your house does not just to cable, but for the full expansion of your home theater with the full video of the entire house and audio capabilities.
Low voltage wiring is much more affordable to install once the house was framed and before the drywall goes up. Home builders are rapidly adding the href = "http://www.directstartv.com/"> multiple lines of satellite television led to the attic for easy installation of your dish. Lines a satellite radio antenna added are also becoming more abundant to increase the signal of this technology within the home. It is now more affordable than ever for the whole house audio to play music from a central panel control or directly from your receiver room. Speakers with volume control can be installed anywhere in your home during construction. If you wait too long, may be impossible to wire additional rooms on separate floors, without significant investments and upgrades.
Theaters are the new craze today. Home owners used to dream about turning that huge bonus room into a billiard room with a table of eight feet. Now, they dream of their 60 "plasma screens high definition with 7.1 surround sound banks and plush theater. His dreams of the pool hall are quickly turning into dreams of being the best player or quarterback armchair while watching your favorite team on NFL Sunday Ticket.
The options do not stop there. We are now seeing a rise in home appliances and components electronics that are network ready. Many of these new products that are not capable of WiFi or satellite signals. They require a hard line in your home network. Wiring each room in your home with a cat-5 line further allow you the greatest amount of flexibility for future compatibility.
Never forget you also need to protect that investment. While spinning his new "Smart Home" do not forget that most href = "http://www.securitychoice.com/"> home security wiring falls with the area of low voltage. Most contractors who wire your home audio and video will also represent their major security companies like ADT and will be able to wire your house accordingly. Windows Wireless and port connections are clearly visible. When the doors and windows are hard wires during construction, you can not see the contacts attached to the hardware. Now is the time to determine what to protect along with what you would like detectors installed (carbon monoxide, fire, flood, broken windows). Always remember to get the battery backup options and phones if they are available.
Put some thought into your floor plan and you will be satisfied with the end of the year. Remember that your choices of low-voltage expand beyond a few satellite dish feeds and cables safely home. You can expand it as far as your imagination and budget allow. Never build for now. Build your house tomorrow, and you will be happy for the next years.
Whitney Alen is a Direct TV expert and has over 10 years experience in the satellite tv industry.
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