[ale] [OT] Residential Data/Voice/Video Wiring

[Mike Murphy]

Oh! to add to answering the actual question: there are a lot of decent 
small business out there that sell satellite (usually meaning Dish or 
DirectTV) equipment/service/installation out there. Pairing them up with 
an electrician and your own ideas should probably get what you want, and 
up to code (but I'm not saying it will necessarily be cheap).

I also saw a This Old House episode about this a couple of years ago (I 
*think* it was the Marlboro House). They used a company to consult on 
this part that was up there. I bet they belong to some industry 
association that might have members here. Now if only I could remember 
that company's name, so I could look up their website!

Last idea: General contractors and electrical contractors that have been 
building new housing in the atlanta area should have at least enough 
experience in this by now to be able to find someone to consult/help, or 
at least admit that they don't have a clue. That is, of course, if said 
contract is honest...

Mike


Mike Murphy wrote:
> so, lets say I were to start a business to do just this sort of thing 
> (plus probably some home theater consulting/installation and satellite 
> tv installation, etc.), would there be a market for it? My evil plan is 
> to move north (by which I mean NORTH, like the mountains), and run a 
> business in dawsonville or some such place, servicing the 
> sprawl^H^H^H^H^H growing communities of the northern outer suburbs.
> 
> Sure would be nice to get out from under the thumb of the my corporate 
> overlords (which if you have picked this message up off the packet 
> filter: just kidding; I love my corporate overlords!).
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> 
>> Hopefully, three years of waiting has to do with a computer clock, not 
>> wall clock...
>>
>> I'll take a semi-stab at this - in two parts. (Somebody chime in where 
>> I goof please) First - basic problem is you want an electrician. 
>> Second - run conduit, nice wide fat open conduit, over all runs where 
>> getting access could be a hassel (like going from the crawl space to 
>> the attic of a two story, or through a section of roof which has 
>> minimal or no access.
>>
>> IMHO (&/or ignorant opion), the conduit will vastly simplify 
>> enlarging/changing the wireing later when you (or the people after 
>> you) figure out what is _really_ needed by making it easier to pull 
>> more wire through blind parts of the structure. The electrician is to 
>> keep the effort up to code.
>>
>> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Token wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>>  I'm in the process of building a house.  So far, looking in the yellow
>>> pages and other places I've been unable to find a company/contractor
>>> that does voice/data/video cabling for residential stuff.  I'm trying to
>>> find someone who is familiar with using satellite distribution as well.
>>> That's been the real stumper.  I'm not looking for anything really fancy
>>> like a whole house automation system or being able to route video
>>> electronically and such.  I'm basically just want a distribution point
>>> for cable TV, Satellite TV, Cable Modem Access, Ethernet, and plain old
>>> telephone.  I want to be able to have access to all this in each room
>>> and with some sort of patch panel in the basement.  I could do all this
>>> myself but I'm not real familiar with the satellite splitter and how
>>> that would all work with patching cable or Antenna HDTV signals.  I
>>> figured maybe of some you folks would have some recommendations or
>>> advice. 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chip Gwyn
>>>
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>>
>>
> 

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