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Structured Wiring Questions

If anyone can help, I would gladly appreciate it.

I am building a new house. 3500 sq. foot, 3 levels. Basement unfinished. They are doing drywall in about 1 week so I have to do this next week. I understand data pretty well as far as networking computers and TV. However, I know nothing about security and very little on audio. I plan on pulling 2 Cat5 (or 6), 2 RG6 Coax to most locations. I will run Fiber to Home office and main TV locations. Of course also run the appropriate wires outside....at least 4 RG6, 4 Ethernet, 1 Fiber (2 if I can afford it). I also will run 4, 2 inch smurf tubes to attic space in 4 different locations and ¾ inch smurf tube to a few jacks as in the main tv locations, along with a run from the lower faceplate to a few feet higher incase I ever can splurge on a projection TV.

1) Security. Please see pg 1 at

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. I understand from one of your post to run 22/4 to each window and door I want covered and homerun (HR) them in the furnace room. Do I run Cat 5 and 22/4 to each control panel as well? What device goes in the basement and how does that work regarding the wires that get terminated to it? Also, for Motion Detectors etc, is all I need 22/4?

2) Sound. Please see pg 2 at

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.. I have purchased Monster cable for 2 locations in my house and plan on running 7.1 to these locations. However, I want to run some cheaper wire to other rooms that most likely wont get used much as far as audio but I still want it there as the wire is cheap, so most likely I will run 14/2 ( Is that good enough wire for this?) I saw in another post that you said to run 14/2 to speakers and 14/4 and Cat 5 to each Volume Control in the other rooms. Is this correct and if so does that Cat5 run from the receiver to the Volume Control or Receiver to First speaker in the room? I also plan on doing some to be terminated outside.

Are there any other structured wiring that you would think would be nice to run. Any other pointers that would pay off in the future. I would purchase a book online, but I am limited on time and I think I should be able to figure out most other than these 2 areas. I would love to be able to control lighting, fridge, etc from a computer system, but part of me thinks this is to expensive and maybe that will all be wireless. I assume however that all these run off Cat5 and most likely IP? I will run 2 IP cameras to the front door and back door, most likely D-Link (cheap, hopefully works good?)

I seriously love this home automation stuff and hope to get into it slowly piece by piece. Anyways, I really appreciate it if anyone has any pointers.

Thanks,

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