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Doesn't that only give him 2 feet for a couch? I am curious as well.

I'm waiting for vista because of the hardware requirments. Being a gamer I want to make sure I have Direct X 10 hardware and the O.S it is meant to run on. If a PC gets you 3 - 5 years of service and you know the future games will be DX 10 why not wait a month and have the hardware. Otherwise...

Which is better POE type cameras or cameras that use a seperate power line. Also what are some good brands. I'd like to install 2 - 3. Door, street and backyard I think will be good. We have a lot of those punk kids that like to check all the cars on the streets for unlocked doors. So if there...

Holy cow. I hope to win the lottery between now and the wiring job. I think I'll do the 2x2 in the main rooms. Then 1Cat5 and 1 cable in the bedrooms. But if they let me run my own cable after they run run there's I'll be run 2 x2 everywhere and run cables to locations like the pation and such.

I am building a new KB 2 story home with a basement. NExt week I talk with the OnQ contractor to order my jacks. I'm doing my best to get over the high expense they charge for running cable. The standard setup I get is two cable jacks and two phone jacks. The cable gets run to the Mbdrm and...

You don't have to partition the whole thing. Depending on what you need you can split it up to several partitions.

Sounds expensive and messy. Why not use strips of 1/2 inch material (Wood - styrofoam) attached to the floor with adhesive and then lay your floor on top of that with adhesive. Are we talking a concrete basement floor or a floor over joists. Over joists I would think you could use the concept of...

The kind of books a company might give an employee to get the basicdown of installation. Also a book on hooking up equipment and what brand to use.

I am looking at buying a new house and was curious if there were any pro installers that might be able to share a whole house wiring diagram with me. I just want to know what the typical runs are for a house and what can I do to make sure future runs are easy to add. I was thinking at the...

Thanks for thet tips. So Staggered stud walls as show in the pciture is for interior wall then.

I want to seat about 10 people max, use a projector to get the big screen, have the option of using 7.1 audio and that is about it. I am house hunting right now with a basement as a requirement. So I need to know the minmimum dimensions on the basement. I also went with a front projector...