SQ5
Well, I've wanted to do one of these for a little while now, but I tend to forget halfway through and stop taking photos. Fortunately I'm currently on a massive job and able to take my time and get it looking spot on.
So the spec is as follows;
3/4 Bedroom house with Pool and Gym wanting Multi Room Audio, Lighting Control, Dedicated Cinema Room, Whole house Data/Telephone/TV, Automation, Video Entry, CCTV etc.... Basically everything we do in one job!
So hopefully this will interest a few, I know a few people on here are in a similar business to myself and is always good for feedback from like minded people.
I started doing the drawings and marking up every place we would need cables too about 18 months ago. The size of the house isn't your average 3/4 bedroom house, the attic room is around 100m square, with 3 bedrooms below and then an open plan living, dining kitchen area. This then leads onto a corridor which goes to the gym and pool or down to the basement and cinema room.
The electricians then ran in all our cables using our drawings and schedules, the wires for the pool room still aren't in yet as the building isn't complete.
In the mean time, I was specifying equipment to the customer and seeing what we could put in equipment wise. We would be using all Middle Atlantic Racking as to be honest there isn't anything better. This is what I came up with.
Also specced individual rooms but we won't know final products until we come closer to install.
DAY 1
This is what I came too in the basement,
I used a 37U Space DWR rack which allows me to fold it back to the wall and still able to get in behind for install and any other changes later on are made so much easier.
So backplate on and I could start tidying the cables. The cable were run in in most instance before they even knew where they would be terminated, hence there being about 15m spare on most runs!
Whilst doing this I stripped all the cables out of the cable trays and re done the tidying myself, I may be a little OCD.
But the end of the day the cabinet was looking like this
That was the end of the day, its very time consuming having to feed cables of that length through and being able to tidy them, for anyone that knows a massive bundle of free cable like that isn't the lightest!
So the spec is as follows;
3/4 Bedroom house with Pool and Gym wanting Multi Room Audio, Lighting Control, Dedicated Cinema Room, Whole house Data/Telephone/TV, Automation, Video Entry, CCTV etc.... Basically everything we do in one job!
So hopefully this will interest a few, I know a few people on here are in a similar business to myself and is always good for feedback from like minded people.
I started doing the drawings and marking up every place we would need cables too about 18 months ago. The size of the house isn't your average 3/4 bedroom house, the attic room is around 100m square, with 3 bedrooms below and then an open plan living, dining kitchen area. This then leads onto a corridor which goes to the gym and pool or down to the basement and cinema room.
The electricians then ran in all our cables using our drawings and schedules, the wires for the pool room still aren't in yet as the building isn't complete.
In the mean time, I was specifying equipment to the customer and seeing what we could put in equipment wise. We would be using all Middle Atlantic Racking as to be honest there isn't anything better. This is what I came up with.
Also specced individual rooms but we won't know final products until we come closer to install.
DAY 1
This is what I came too in the basement,
I used a 37U Space DWR rack which allows me to fold it back to the wall and still able to get in behind for install and any other changes later on are made so much easier.
So backplate on and I could start tidying the cables. The cable were run in in most instance before they even knew where they would be terminated, hence there being about 15m spare on most runs!
Whilst doing this I stripped all the cables out of the cable trays and re done the tidying myself, I may be a little OCD.
But the end of the day the cabinet was looking like this
That was the end of the day, its very time consuming having to feed cables of that length through and being able to tidy them, for anyone that knows a massive bundle of free cable like that isn't the lightest!
