-- How To Avoid a Fishing Expedition
The following configurations are quite simply a re-organization of the wire which will normally be installed in your home.What is meant by 'normally' is that you are, in most cases going to
want telephone and cable in your home. If it is not available in your piece of North
America, wait for it. Telemarketing and home shopping networks want you! We suggest
perhaps a couple of lines to put music out to the verandah or
garage, and just maybe you would like a security light on the NW corner, and a motion
sensor in the carport, and... Well, pre-wiring IS PRE-PLANNING!
Here are a few ideas on where you should put these initial runs. Remember with wiring... neatness counts! Follow me through A User Friendly Home...
1.
The home office and family room have telephone and cable outlets behind the optimal
television locations.
Why? Who needs the unsafe and unsightly wires running willy-nilly throughout the
rooms.
2. The home office has two telephone cable runs and two cable outlets.
Why? Residential & business lines, facsimile line, security line.
3. In the Kitchen, telephone and cable for the
kitchen 'work' area. Often the cordless telephone base-station is located here. Having a
television in the kitchen sure is nice.
Why? Cooking shows and news are two good reasons in my book.
4. Telephone jacks in the downstairs storage closet especially if you are considering the lift/elevator option. This jack should be roughed-in 48 inches floor to centre, on the inside of the proposed lift/elevator shaft on the opening side of the door. The side the handle is on; the side opposite to the hinge point.
Why? The elevating devices branch of your Province (or state) may require a telephone inside the elevator.
5. Always ensure a telephone and coaxial cable
run to the lock-set of both the front and rear doors, and any other significant entrance
ways to your castle.
Why? Future intercom, security or remote options and other uses not yet considered.
6. In the master bedroom, keep peace in the family, be sure to install both telephone and cable. In point of fact at this juncture you might as well do all the bedrooms. Heaven forbid one child should have access and not the other(s).
Why? In house social service, children's own telephones, televisions and computer lines.... Have you ever lived with a 15 year old?
7. A telephone jack in the garage has proven very handy.
Why? Using a speaker phone I am able to get some great car-buff advice while lying on my back looking into the operating parts of my (not collector edition) '73 Mercedes. Besides, who really wants to run through the house only to find out your library book is overdue?
8. All rooms should have a four-pair, low-voltage run, which returns directly to Node zero.This creates a base-line wiring network and anticipates most of your needs. It is only a few more outlets than you might normally specify, a couple hundred feet of low-voltage four-pair telephone type wire. As a mater of fact you may want to add a few more outlets for your own personal customizing. Bear in mind that you don't need to dress these out. Simply having the wiring pulled and a nice little diagram indicating where to 're-discover' the wiring or putting a blank cover plate on the box will ease your future renovation plans. Yes even after we have built our dream home we will eventually come up with remodeling ideas we absolutely cannot live without. Now, you will have this 'invisible' option of being able to make your home 'smarter' in the future.
Cable Whether you have a local cable company who looks after the pre-wiring or one who still trusts you to do it on your own, this is an important pre-wire aspect. I am sure you have seen many homeswith cable zip-tied to the outside of window sills, patched up, and painted over. Cabling, like telephone wiring, should be on individual runs. For the extra $20. per run it is much better to have each run return to the base station (Node Zero). Why? Line loss, cable technologies, and the distribution of Internet services via the cable require clean, undiluted runs. I recommend you use RG-6 Quad shielded cable for all these applications.
TelephoneMy strong recommendation is to use level five wire. The cost difference is about four cents per lineal foot. Your home will gobble up anywhere between four to six hundred feet. Level five is better wire.... "a larger and better quality pipe" is what the professionals call it. Why settle for less than the best.
ISDN
You may never have to know what ISDN stands for, but in the event you need to know, you will be very pleased that you used level five telephone wire. The Integrated Services Digital Network is the wiring used today in offices and other light industrial applications. It is more than conceivable that we will find a spill-down affect from advances made in these areas as they migrate into our homes.
Be like the Boy Scout, eh? BE PREPARED!
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