Future proofing wiring for flat

[egginyourface]

Evening all,

Will be rewiring my flat in a couple of days and would like to go all out. I will be wiring 3x cat6 per room, tv points etc. spots, power points every where etc.

Are there any other things I could run that I might connect in the future, possibly electric blinds points?. Possibly separate heating zone for each room, ( May be overkill)

thanks

 

[Marvo]

....Are there any other things I could run that I might connect in the future

You're asking us to guess what you might like to add to your home in the future.....

Are you going for a home automation system?

 

[Knobhead]

If you’ve got a wife get a divorce, it’s easier than moving everything when you’ve finished.

 

[egginyourface]

Lol,,, I would probobaly wire for it, not sure if I would actually connect anything up to it

 

[bigbaddave]

Id go for one light and socket in each room.. The n a 20way Db.. Addition won't be a issue when you know what you want.

 

[egginyourface]

I know what I want power wise. It's funny that now the time has come to actually do my own place I have no idea what's out there that I could do.

Just googling electric blinds and prices are a joke! Don't think I will be having them

 

[egginyourface]

Could run a 16mm armoured to each room and have its own db. That would future proof it for when we are all living in studio flats within a flat

 

[GMES]

Don't forget to install a power supply for the spaceship landing pad lighting!

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Just make sure every room has power on at least two different protective devices

 

[egginyourface]

Rcbo for very point

 

[Plonker 3]

Don't forget to TT every room just incase any of your house becomes detached in the future

 

[egginyourface]

A classic is ring circuit for the lighting circuit.

 

[Engineer54]

If you're into home theatre (surround speakers etc) get the two (or more) rear/side speakers tubed in up the walls. Gets rid of all the trailing or otherwise clipped speaker cables etc.... I spec'd that for my own house i had built in Cyprus... lol!!

 

[Adam W]

My opinion is the only way to make a property 'futureproof' is to make is as rewireable as possible, as in ducts wherever you might need to draw in whatever new-fangled cables tomorrow may bring.
Depending on what you might want to do I would suggest taking everything to a central hub to allow for future upgrade to a central audio, lighting, data, or complete home automation system.
If you don't want that it can be linked through in the meantime.

 

[Knobhead]

I wasn’t joking about the divorce.

Twenty years in the same house, constantly altering things mainly to suit her. Never did get to the stage of saying “that’s it, it’s finished”.

I’ve never touched a domestic job in the nineteen years since.

 

[Octopus]

For your TV points make sure you have satellite grade cable and run the cables back to where you can have a decent multiple input splitter amp!

 

[telectrix]

nah. just need doors that stay open and a few hundred watt hi-fi with a stack of heavy rock cds.

 

[topquark]

Alarm cables? Car recharging point (might have a bit of a prob getting up the stairs to the flat if it's not on the ground floor though ).

 

[DPG]

Agree with murdoch - DO NOT use cheap coax cable for anything! Daz

 

[DPG]

Except possibly a low-noise washing line? Daz