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[BraveSirRobbin]

That's a nice setup. Yea, a lot would seem how the builder reacts to all of those extra wiring requests.

You did bring up a good point and that is if a lot of wiring 'extras' are expected, the builder (general contractor) should probably know so there aren't any surprises for the drywallers like you mentioned above.

 

[Westcojack]

What are you using for lighting control?

 

[drvnbysound]

That's a nice setup. Yea, a lot would seem how the builder reacts to all of those extra wiring requests.

You did bring up a good point and that is if a lot of wiring 'extras' are expected, the builder (general contractor) should probably know so there aren't any surprises for the drywallers like you mentioned above.

Yeah, fortunately for me, it was not a custom home that I was having built, I had confirmation from the builder/contractor that I could run my own wiring and we had already closed on the house... and this was about the middle of the 'recession' so he was happy to get the house sold at all. He ended up throwing in quite a few extras w/o charge as well. For us, it was amazing to be able to choose everything (paint, cabinets, appliances, flooring, etc.) for our first home, and not have to go through the planning and other work upfront that would usually be involved with a custom home.

I just wish I knew more about structured wiring at the time, and had installed enclosures upfront. Instead, I only thought of the here and now (at the time). Buying a 3BR/2BA with no kids, we planned that we would have a guest room, and the other room would be my office. So I wired the home's Ethernet cables to my office, since I planned to have the modem and router in the office, I figured it would be a good place to be the hub of the rest of the networking as well. Similarly, I also ran CCTV wiring into the office as well. Hindsight is 20/20, and about 2 years ago I realized that if/when we decide to sell the home, another family may likely want to use the room as an actual bedroom... and not a HA media center. So I've been retrofitting a number of things since then...