Modern Upgrades for an Old Home
Think your remodel was difficult? Here's how a 200-year old home, complete with stonewalls, was wired for whole-house control.
This Maryland house has a whole-house control system, security cameras, 13 zones of audio distribution, a wireless computer network, geothermal heating, sensors for water leaks and humidity, a surround-sound system and a DVD movie server.
Must be a new home, right? Try 1781as in the days of George Washington. That's when the original structure was built. A renovation of the modest Quaker-style house was done in 1814, and a few years ago, the current homeowners added a wing with a family room on the first floor, a master bedroom above and a host of modern, high-tech accoutrements throughout the house. Electronics installer Gramophone of Timonium, MD, and builder Chad Neal of Whispering Meadows, in Freeland, MD, had to deal with many walls of plaster and lath construction (made up of thin strips of wood that support the plaster). Even worse, some walls of stone are 18 to 26 inches thick. So running wire was difficultand this house received a complete electrical rewiring.
They wanted an old house but with all the modern things, Gramophone's Lance David says of the homeowners. The builder tried to save as much of the original structure as possible. It has all the same floors and walls, and refurbished material was used in the addition.
For more info on this modern remodel, go to http://www.electronichouse.com/artic...r_an_old_home/
Think your remodel was difficult? Here's how a 200-year old home, complete with stonewalls, was wired for whole-house control.
This Maryland house has a whole-house control system, security cameras, 13 zones of audio distribution, a wireless computer network, geothermal heating, sensors for water leaks and humidity, a surround-sound system and a DVD movie server.
Must be a new home, right? Try 1781as in the days of George Washington. That's when the original structure was built. A renovation of the modest Quaker-style house was done in 1814, and a few years ago, the current homeowners added a wing with a family room on the first floor, a master bedroom above and a host of modern, high-tech accoutrements throughout the house. Electronics installer Gramophone of Timonium, MD, and builder Chad Neal of Whispering Meadows, in Freeland, MD, had to deal with many walls of plaster and lath construction (made up of thin strips of wood that support the plaster). Even worse, some walls of stone are 18 to 26 inches thick. So running wire was difficultand this house received a complete electrical rewiring.
They wanted an old house but with all the modern things, Gramophone's Lance David says of the homeowners. The builder tried to save as much of the original structure as possible. It has all the same floors and walls, and refurbished material was used in the addition.
For more info on this modern remodel, go to http://www.electronichouse.com/artic...r_an_old_home/
