New Home Renovation Project

[ZeroK66]

Hello all,

I am in the process of planning the massive renovation of my new home.

I have a very good idea of what I want to achieve, but there is a good chance I may miss something criticaly useful.

Plan at the moment is to renovate the house and then re-wire. At the point of re-wiring I will get Sky cabling & Aerial cabling run to most rooms in the house. At the same time I have just ordered a 10U rack, 16port GB switch and NAS box (QNAP TS-209 II which is an amazing NAS box!). The NAS box supports 2 x surveilance cameras which I will need to cable for.

Plan will be to mount the cab and switching, router, NAS Box etc all in the roof out of the way. I will then run data cabling to each room in the house.

Immidiate questions are:

1. What other cabling should I run to each room.
2. Anyone able to suggest fancy wall plates that would carry all the cabling connectors I need?
3. Any looms out there that carry everything I need all in one to simplify installation?
4. What have I forgotten? Sure there are little tips and bits I should really do at the same time as renovation.

Anyone out there who lives in the SouthWest willing to demo your setups etc be really appreciated. A mate of mine does a lot of home automation - unfortunately its in South Africa, so I dont have him on hand to help out.

My hardware is as follows:

Main Living room:
Sky HD box & 50" TV(Still to be bought... debating what to get. Probably Sony 52 LCD)
PS3

Second TV room/snug/games room:
Relocating my existing Bravia 40" Tele
Vista Media Center PC with dual Freeview tuner
Xbox 360
Wii

Office:
iMac 24"

At this stage, I am not sure what to do in the bedrooms and kitchen. Some form of audio system across each room be great - on a budget be great. Main bedroom I would like a TV that supports DLNA as my NAS box will work with this. Probably a small screen in the kitchen that supports this too be good. Suggestions here be great

Cheers,

[hornydragon]

lots of Cat5 cables include them with the sky and coax cabling, to the TV points, Ideally 2 coax and 2 cat5 to each TV and perhaps Extra coax and Cat5 to SKy locations.

i think you should add speaker cables to living rooms ceilings (kitchen, bathroom as well) and bedrooms also add cat towall switch level boxes for control panels.

lots of power at Rack cabling for CCTV cams depends on the cams IP? PoE? Telephnoe to Rack for router telephone out for phones


Dont buy another Sony LCD....

There ar ehuge options available you cant buy a pre made loom and outlets in all varieties are available. I would say look at a Triax DDU system

[ZeroK66]

Fisrt off big thanks, just what I was hoping for...

Originally Posted by hornydragon

i think you should add speaker cables to living rooms ceilings (kitchen, bathroom as well) and bedrooms

Where do these speaker cables link in? Would you setup a panel with RCA contacts to link to?

Bedroom/Kitchens etc - where should the speaker wires run to. Guess there are a lot of options out there for streaming audio to rooms etc?

Originally Posted by hornydragon

also add cat towall switch level boxes for control panels.

Confused... what do you mean here?

[hornydragon]

speaker cables normally to run to node 0 or central HUB you can run to an inwall plate but if you do you need in room AMPs and hardware.

CAt5 from central point for flush in wall controllers. not need for SOnos (needs cat5 in room) there are lots of options and budgets. Need a bit more info really on what you want for the end result.