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Structured Wiring Hits Home
Right up there with all the buzz about green homes is structured wiring, now entering the main stream must-have for technology based homebuyers. Structured wiring has long been a part of outfitting commerical building projects with intergrated systems for data, security, and entertainment. Now, with design advances and lower costs homeowners can add heating, cooling, and lighting controls to these intergrated systems. No longer Jetson-cute, these systems are energy and time-savers for homeowners.
Driving the early demand were needs by homeowners to network computer and media equipment. Structured wiring is easy to picture. Coaxial TV cable (RG-6), Category 5E voice and data lines, distributed radio, remote camera security are wired through out a home into multi-outlet boxes called in the trade, home network centers. The beauty of the system allows one point of origin for connecting all the computers in a home to DSL.
With the addition of a control panel, you can pre-set furnace and air-conditioning, lighting to auto-off/on, deliver audio rooom-by-room, and raise and lower window shades, all by programming your control center. Some systems also allow you to call your home telephone and enter prompts to do it remote.
Structured wiring can be added to an existing home or specified to a new one. The system costs roughly $1,500 in new construction and double in a retro fit. It is placed like traditional electrical wiring, but special technicians should be used to lay out blueprints and plan for future upgrades. Energy costs saved can help offset intial structured wiring costs. But, in my view, one filled with multiple modems, cables, phone lines, thermostats, and surge protectors, I'm way past ready for structured wiring.
Mark Nash is the author of "Fundamentals of Marketing for the Real Estate Professional", "Starting & Succeeding in Real Estate", "Reaching Out: The Financial Power of Niche Marketing", and "1001 Tips for Buying and Selling a Home". Mark is a contributing writer for: Realtor (R) Magazine Online, Broker Agent News, Real Estate Executive Magazine, Principal Broker, and Realty Times. His tried and true real estate tips has been featured on Business Week, CBS The Early Show, CNN, HGTVpro.com, The New York Times, and USA Today. Purchase his books at http://www.1001RealEstateTips.com.
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