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Friday, September 8, 2023
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We are just a couple weeks away from closing up the walls on the new house! Are there any last minute requests I should put in for things in the walls? We already have: ethernet everywhere, 2x the required power outlets, water on the patios, intercoms... -
Paul
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Sep 8
@aaronpk if your internets will be delivered by your cable tv provider, make sure you have a path for that cable... otherwise the cable company will just butcher your house when they do their install
I hope to never have internet delivered from the cable provider 😅 and have no plans to get cable service, BUT... the electrician insisted on running coax everywhere anyway, so now my plan is to create my own in-house cable TV network -
Paul
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Sep 8
@aaronpk also: speaker wire for wherever you will want speakers. We put ceiling mounted speakers above the sink in our master bathroom and they get used daily.
ooh bathroom is not something I had considered. We do have speakers in the living room, kitchen, and rooftop patio tho! -
Paul
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Sep 8
@aaronpk yes - we added them when we renovated the bathroom and it's great. Also a power outlet by the toilet for a heated toilet seat, and another inside of the bathroom cabinet for charging razors (so they don't have to be out on the countertop all of the time).
Nice! and yup got outlets in those spots already! -
Paul
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Sep 8
@aaronpk if you're going to have a wired security system, having the security company installer come and do that before the walls closed up would be good.
I don't really know what goes into a security system these days, I'm doing a lot of it DIY. I have outdoor cameras already, and electronic locks for the doors. Also wires for door contact sensors. -
Ashley Kolodziej 🐰
https://fosstodon.org/@ashleykolodziej
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Sep 8
@aaronpk Some sort of metallic object at a consistent height that you’ll remember for locating studs. It could be something as simple as a nail at doorknob height on all of them. Extra points if you can figure out some sort of way to note where your wires and pipes are, like maybe a magnet flipped so that it repels when you use a stud finding magnet. If I could make any upgrade to the walls of my house, that would be it by a mile.
Interesting, I've always used a stud finder for finding the wood which works pretty well. I'm definitely worried about finding the pipes later, but I'm going to spend a full day photographing and cataloguing each wall before they get closed up. -
bahaha yes good plan
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Paul
https://infosec.exchange/@planzi
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Sep 8
@aaronpk pretty much the wires for the contact sensors (doors, windows), the fire alarm wiring and the wires from the alarm box to the horn and the touchscreen panels themselves
this is making me realize I have absolutely no idea what these kinds of modern security systems look like -
absolutely on the list! It's going to be a full day project, I want to make sure I have some organization system for all the photos.
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Dr. Fett
https://social.cologne/@df
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Sep 8
@aaronpk A separate low-voltage DC net to power all those ESPs?
That was kind of the idea behind running the doubled up ethernet everywhere, I can always send 5V or PoE over that if I need to. -
haha yes! good plan
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Nils
https://coolworld.cc/@n
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Sep 8
@aaronpk I can only think of a pneumatic tube system, although it's unlikely to be a last minute addition.
we did briefly talk about doing that 😅
more realistically we did talk about an in-house vacuum system but decided against it in the end
