Anyway wiring consists of deciding the number and placement of cable outlets, phone outlets, network outlets, surround sound, and security options. As part of our incentive package we get one room wired for surround sound (speakers not included) and prewiring for security. Security is monitored by alarm.com and you can go hog wild with options there. You can sync it to your iPhone so you can turn on lights, lock and unlock doors, open the garage, give people entry codes to your house and the list goes on. They also provide monitoring for fire, CO and police security. We decided to keep it pretty simple here. We are having the house prewired since it is part of the incentive package and that includes 3 door sensors and a motion detector. The keypad is extra, and signing up for monitoring and the additional perks is also extra, with monitoring being a monthly fee. We chose to get the door sensors and motion detector installed along with a second motion detector and the key pad. We are not signing up for monitoring or any of the electronic entry perks at this time. Since it will be prewired and we'll have the key pad we can pretty much activate with alarm.com at any time. We just didn't feel it was necessary at this point, but who knows, maybe we'll change our minds in the future.
As far as the outlet wiring goes, 4 lines come with the base cost of the house and you can mix it up as you like and choose where to put them. Additional lines cost extra, $120 per line, but it is MUCH easier and cheaper to add these things as you build the house rather than after the drywall is up. We tried to be smart about this and add plenty of outlets for cable, beyond what we really want or need so that when we sell in the future we have an appealing set up. Currently we don't have a phone landline but were advised it was smart to at least put a phone outlet in the house, particularly in the study, so that if future owners/renters want to use that as an office and have a fax, it's all set up. I'm including a floor plan with the locations of the outlets and monitors we chose to place. We ended up with 8 cable outlets, two phone outlet and three network outlets. We added an extra motion detector and put door sensors on the three doors to the outside. They keypad will be in the mudroom as we plan to use this entrance most frequently. We aren't planning to hang a TV above the fire place, mostly because we just don't like to look up at it while we're watching TV. Instead we put a cable outlet on each wall to give us the option of placing the TV on either side without having to run wires all around the family room. The surround sound wiring will also be added to the family room. We considered the loft but as it butts up against the kids bedrooms we didn't feel we'd want to be blasting the sound up there.
Here's the key for our abbreviations:
C - Cable outlet
P - Phone outlet
N - Network Outlet
DS - Door sensor
MD - Motion detector
KP - Keypad
SS - Surround sound
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