In wall cabling help for a newbie?
Hey guys,

Sorry if I am posting to the wrong forum, but I am a newbie in need of some help. I am closing on my new house next Friday. I currently have a townhouse, that I bought pre-construction, so I was able to get the builder to prewire my house for Directv. Well, I got a sick deal on a new house (4.875%, 30-year fixed; $0 down, $0 closing costs), and the only problem is that it is an inventory house. So, I am lucky if every room has a single line in each room, not to mention the obvious lack of surround sound prewire. Well, I have DirecTV HD-DVR's for the 3 HDTV's I have, so I need to do a bunch of cable runs in order to get the dual lines I need. I also want to run the surround sound wiring while I have the holes in the walls. You know, knock it all out at once! Anyway, I was thinking of running RG6 siamese cabling for the coax, and saw some 12AWG speaker wire over at Monoprice. Any recommendations on what kind I should buy? Where can I get the best bang for the buck? What do you guys use? Sorry to bore everyone to death. Thanks in advance for the help!

Pierre

just make sure you speaker wire is in-wall rated and of a big enough gauge to handle any speakers that you may want to power along with the distance of the run and you should be fine.