Recent content by chadspad

MavRic I think I'll follow your lead and wire some stuff after the fact. It's too hard to concentrate when the wife is constantly asking which tile goes with which flooring and with what color paint! What the heck is a mudring? Cheers

Awesome post MavRic. Running the conduit as described will give me time to figure out things without holding up the rest of the house! I think I may just run 2" conduit to each major drop so I don't have a problem pulling cables. 3/4" to light switches. I didn't realize you could get gang...

Thanks. Are you suggesting I pull 4 cat 6's and two rg6? What else would you run off of the second rg6? Also, can someone point me to a good spot to pick up wall plates with a high WAF. Appreciate any additional feedback the tech brains on this forum can provide on my origianl post. Cheers

I'm just getting to lock-up stage in my house and I'm going to give it the old college try and wire for some home automation. I live in Northern Canada so there's not a lot of help to be had on this front. Luckily I've had some time to lurk on this site and try to pick up a few tips here and...

With respect to the ELK panel can someone spell out all the parts I need to get up and running. If I just by an ELK M1G will this suffice, or are there additional parts I should be ordering. Also, do you terminate right onto the ELK panel or is it better to use some form of structured wiirng...

Ok .... I've been slowly trying to educate my non tech saavy brain .... but it's slow going. We start to build in a week, and here is what I've come up with for solutions to my various wants (note I believe they are needs but the wife disagrees!). I'd appreciate any comments you may have, and...

Thanks BSR! Now I have something to do today at work. Are all the things I mentioned doable ..... by a non techie guy willing to try, or are my expectations too high?

I'm going to begin building a new home in the next few weeks and have only recently stumbled on to the concept of home automation ..... and after reading this forum I realize that there's a myriad of options that I can't possibly begin to understand without some help. Unfortunately I live in a...