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Structured Wiring Overkill

post #1 of 8
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For a number of reasons I have to start pulling wire in my house in a week. The Si that I have engaged will not have the sytem designed until after that time and will not have the wiring schmatics, etc prepared until a few days after I have to start pulling wire.
I have a fairly large home with 30 zones of audio/video. I also will have climate control, security cameras, security system, telephone, cable tv, satellite tv, ethernet and a few shades hooked up. I am using Crestron. The question is this. Even though the System has not been designed, can I pull lots of wire to each location without technical interference and the only risk is that I have not pulled enough or the correct wire to each location.
To minimize the risk of not having enough wire,could I pull four separate home runs of Cat 6, three separate runs of quad shield RG6, two separate runs of Cat5(e), two separate runs of Cresnet, one separate run of Crescat-D, another separate run of Crescat-D-HP and and a final run of Crescat-Q.
I think that all this wire run from the head end to each location should be sufficien and is probably overkill, but I am facing a dilemna in that the System will not be fully designed and I have to start wiring at least the first floor of a three floor house.
What problem can you detect so tha ti may plan for them and try to avoid?
post #2 of 8
Why start before the schematic is complete? Don't you want the wires labeled according to the schematic? What will you do/how will you account for a wire that you pull that is not called for in the schematic?

How about filling your time putting up plates & boxes, speaker rings, etc? In a system of the size you're talking about that should take a while of and by itself. Then, the schematic will be done and you can save yourself a headache later.
post #3 of 8
This is nightmare in the making. Why are you hiring an integrator at all and then asking people here if running wires ab&c would be adequate? Why not ask him? Even if a plan is not ready surely he can tell you just what you are asking, which is "run this many Cat 5 and this many RG-6 and this many Cresnet" etc. to these locations.
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This is nightmare in the making. Why are you hiring an integrator at all and then asking people here if running wires ab&c would be adequate? Why not ask him? Even if a plan is not ready surely he can tell you just what you are asking, which is "run this many Cat 5 and this many RG-6 and this many Cresnet" etc. to these locations.

Exactly!
post #5 of 8
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I have a fairly large home with 30 zones of audio/video


lmao, is it me or do the terms "fairly large" and "30 Zones" seem funny together
post #6 of 8
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two separate runs of Cat5(e)


2 runs of cat5e is not enough, Run 5 to be safe!! and maybe consider cat6, I doubt cat6 will ever matter but you never know!!

I wish you luck and I hope you have help for something so big
post #7 of 8
get the plan...get the plan...get the plan. Otherwise you'll be pissing into the wind.
post #8 of 8
Maybe OP has a schedule issue where he needs to run the cabling now. He seems to need to do it so I have to assume there is a legit reason and not just impatiences.
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