Some things we learned from having a house built for us, about 3 years ago:
1. Have Cat 5 lines pulled to each room than you think you'll need. We had only one per room, and in a couple places, I really wish we'd have had two (or more). One for phone and one for internet. Wireless is great -- when it works!
2. Makes sure there are enough lights outside, and enough switches. We actually ended up with some exterior doors that don't have switches for outside lights. Dumb. Insteon to the rescue, but it would have been nice not to have to go that route.
3. Get a record of where all the wires are pulled. Take pictures before the wall board goes up, e.g.
4. Follow the progress of construction as closely as you can. Pay attention to details. Believe it or not, we actually caught a framing error, before it was too far along (no wall board): the back door was missing! I kid you not! They put a window there instead. Fixed it, of course.
5. Got a theater? Was it designed and built by a specialist? Ours wasn't. Our builder had never done one before. It turned out pretty nice, but little touches that a pro would have thought of would have been icing on the cake. I see pictures in magazines, and say "next house"!
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Do you really think Cat 5 is neccessary in this day and age of wireless? It just seems like a lot of expense when wireless has gotten so cheap and fast. I have a two story home and many times there are four or five computers operating on my wireless router simulataneously.
I agree that a professionals touch in a home theater is best but have you priced those guys? Yikes!!! My home theater is a work in progress that got stalled because of budget right after the major components were installed and up and running. Because the room is so narrow I am going to install real theater seats but the nice cushioned rocker ones. I can get three of those across where the wide home theater seats I can only get two. I still have to build a riser for my second row and do some finishing work. Of course in the dark it all looks great since I have my HD projector, HD DVD, Blu-Ray DVD, HD DISH satellite DVR / receiver, Sony HD receiver, and surround speakers. Now that my wife has her hardwood floors installed downstairs it is my turn sometime in the future to finish out the home theater (probably right after that zero turn mower I have been wanting for years).
Monkeyperson,
Congrats on the house! It must be an exciting time. I have never had one built and I hear it is a love / hate thing.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
Cat 5 itself is not expensive maybe $300 for the whole house and a bit for install.
__________________ "It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." Dave Barry 2005
I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
Do you really think Cat 5 is neccessary in this day and age of wireless? It just seems like a lot of expense when wireless has gotten so cheap and fast. I have a two story home and many times there are four or five computers operating on my wireless router simulataneously.
I agree that a professionals touch in a home theater is best but have you priced those guys? Yikes!!! My home theater is a work in progress that got stalled because of budget right after the major components were installed and up and running. Because the room is so narrow I am going to install real theater seats but the nice cushioned rocker ones. I can get three of those across where the wide home theater seats I can only get two. I still have to build a riser for my second row and do some finishing work. Of course in the dark it all looks great since I have my HD projector, HD DVD, Blu-Ray DVD, HD DISH satellite DVR / receiver, Sony HD receiver, and surround speakers. Now that my wife has her hardwood floors installed downstairs it is my turn sometime in the future to finish out the home theater (probably right after that zero turn mower I have been wanting for years).
Monkeyperson,
Congrats on the house! It must be an exciting time. I have never had one built and I hear it is a love / hate thing.
Well, I dunno. I do use wireless, just got a new Belkin N router, but it's been pretty flaky so far, and I'm just across the hall from it. Downstairs, eesh! The PS3 gets 25-30% signal strength at best, and drops connection all the time (when you can connect at all). Maybe just a bad router, and I'll get in touch with Belkin about it, of course. Just sayin', wired will be more reliable and faster (typically).
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
Well, I dunno. I do use wireless, just got a new Belkin N router, but it's been pretty flaky so far, and I'm just across the hall from it. Downstairs, eesh! The PS3 gets 25-30% signal strength at best, and drops connection all the time (when you can connect at all). Maybe just a bad router, and I'll get in touch with Belkin about it, of course. Just sayin', wired will be more reliable and faster (typically).
I have a Belkin wireless router and when I first bought this house and got Comcast broadband I had issues. The tech guy they sent out told me that Comcast has problems with Belkin routers for some reason. It turned out my particular issue was not that but a bad install by Comcast. Since I use Vonage and ran into another wireless router on clearance with the Vonage modem built in I bought that but it has sat in a box for almost three years now. LOL!!! Eventually I will get an N router but right now I don't think any of my computers would benefit from it.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
CC1 did all your computers come with WIFI or did you have to install the receivers?
__________________ "It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." Dave Barry 2005
I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
CC1 did all your computers come with WIFI or did you have to install the receivers?
All of our computers in the house have built in wifi. they are all "G", no "N',s. However G is good enough for me to watch video from Hulu that rivals standard defintion TV.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
I forgot this one...it is me drinking coffee IN FAITH at my kitchen island. I look like a flamingo though Someone on my wife's FB page said it looked like "River Dance" yiiikes!!!
I believe that was your wife...
And yes, the idea of the Monkeyman doing the Riverdance is kinda scary!
Love the romantic JR + NR thing!
__________________ Mrs. LPW
Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Did you start this thread only to abandon it? Did you fall in the newly dug basement and can't get out? Did the sress of building a home finally take its toll and you are now institutinalized and they won't give you access to the internet?
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
Someone on my wife's FB page said it looked like "River Dance" yiiikes!!!
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