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Well, next week the drywall will be be started on our home. When the time comes, I’m thinking of just live-streaming rather than having cable. I currently have Netflix and Amazon Prime which I watch on my iPad. When we move into our home, I’ll also be subscribing to Hulu. However, if I want to watch local TV stations, is there a way I could do this? Our home is being built in Kea’au (Ola Hou Estates).
Now is the time to wire the house for any tech you may want in the future, although that seems to change fairly frequently so I'm not sure what wiring you'd want to install now to be used later. USB ports in areas where you'd use devices may be a thought. Although, there's now electrical outlets which have USB ports built into them.
Good time to install central vacuum, too.
If you think you'll need additional electrical outlets in any particular areas, such as behind where ever the monster TV will be placed, now is also the time to get them in there as well. Once the walls are closed in, then it's more expensive to have those sorts of things done.
Last double wall house I built had boric acid crystals sprinkled in the walls. That's the active ingredient in many cockroach and termite baits. It's not expensive and would hopefully kill bugs if they got in the walls. An alternate would be DE (diatomaceous earth). Once the walls are covered in drywall, the boric acid and/or DE would be covered over but bugs still manage to get in there somehow.
[quote=hotzcatz;59248800]Now is the time to wire the house for any tech you may want in the future, although that seems to change fairly frequently so I'm not sure what wiring you'd want to install now to be used later. USB ports in areas where you'd use devices may be a thought. Although, there's now electrical outlets which have USB ports built into them....
Thanks for all the tips. Very helpful info. This is the very reason I was asking about live-streaming and local channels - to do any wiring before closing up. We’ve put in the wiring for future use in case live-streaming doesn’t work out for us.
Now is the time to wire the house for any tech you may want in the future, although that seems to change fairly frequently so I'm not sure what wiring you'd want to install now to be used later. USB ports in areas where you'd use devices may be a thought. Although, there's now electrical outlets which have USB ports built into them....
Thanks for all the tips. Very helpful info. This is the very reason I was asking about live-streaming and local channels - to do any wiring before closing up. We’ve put in the wiring for future use in case live-streaming doesn’t work out for us.
Mahalo.
Judy
When we had our house built last year we had conduit run all over the place where we thought we might need future wiring. Cheap to do now. That way as technology changes, the wires you run may become obsolete, it is easy to run newer style wiring in the conduit.
When we had our house built last year we had conduit run all over the place where we thought we might need future wiring. Cheap to do now. That way as technology changes, the wires you run may become obsolete, it is easy to run newer style wiring in the conduit.
Speaking of streaming - if you do have Spectrum and a 4K HDR TV - better to stream Spectrum with Apple TV+ as it upscales to HDR and provides a better picture than the cable box.
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