Building Tip #2 - Pre-Wiring

Pre-wire for everything you can think of! Even the stuff you don’t thing you need. When your building a home you can take full advantage of having no walls.  When you pre-wire during construction you can choose where things go and you don't have to fish wire through walls and floors which can cost twice as much to do versus doing it while the walls are open and exposed.  Even if you may not be able to or what to put it in after you finish building having the option by prewiring can save you money, time, and hassle if and when you do want to put it in and prewiring for anything and everything will always add value to your home.

You may also think you would much rather ride the wireless wagon, but unforunately wireless technology in not up tp par, it just isn't as robust or reliable as a hard wired connection. Most wireless systems only work in and for a small space and plaster walls, stone interior facades or other common residential obstructions  can cause the wireless to not work properly if they work at all.  

 So to help you in figuring out what to prewire we have come up with a couple places and ideas that you can pre-wire during construction to save you time, money, and hassle in the long run.

• Things to Prewire for

• Speakers for the inside and outside
• Motion Sensors
• Security Cameras
• Surround sound inside and outside
• A theater room
• A generator
• securitySystem 
•  Door Phones
• Intercoms
• Driveway Vehicle Detection
•  Communicating thermostats
•  Motorized window treatments
•  Entry systems
•  Irrigation systems. 
• And the Obvious ones
• Cable
• Internet
• Phone Lines
• Also to prewiring any or all of these you should also decide on two locations for centralized controls, like one in the living room or kitchen and the other in the master bedroom.
• We offer many standard features that help out and include some prewiring to find out more click here.

• Usually Forgotten Places
• The Garage
• The garage most homes is a central nerve cneter of the home, as the many entry point into the home, you can take advantage of this fact by having a chain of events be trigger when you arrive home through your garage. For example when you garage door opens the kitchen or mudrooms lights could turn on or the thermostat could adjust or in a reverse affect that system could also alert you when the garage door has been left open
• Hallways and Closets
• Although you may not think of these places when you think of prewiring, but they can acutally hold a key to helping you save energy.  By prewiring for halway sensors and leyrt installing them when someone exits the hallway the sensor could send a signal to the security or lighting system to turn off the light, the same can be done in larger closets that have lights.

• We actually include lights in all the larger closets including the pantry, to find out more about our standard features click here.
• The Front Door
• Although it isn't the garage or mudroom the front door is the next common entrance into a home. Prewiring for a security pad next to the front door is a good idea for common sense and convience.
• Patios and Deckstear it up to bury wiring 
• Once you have you new lawn and garden done the last thing you would want to do is, so prewiring on and near you decks and patios in very important. You want to prewire anywhere you might want to hear music. Also it is smart to prewire for junction boxes around your backyard. Junction boxes throughout your back yard can be very useful in many ways. We have 4 in our back yard and each has been used multiple times for tools, speakers, lights, etc. 

When you plan on building be sure to look into prewiring and talk to your builder about what they do or do not include standard and remember to be smart and logical when building a house and get advise on things you don't understand. This is it for Building tip #2!