Home Wiring – 9th Tee

Low voltage wiring is the wiring for Audio, Video, Telephone, Intercom, Data, Alarm System, Weather Station, HVAC, and generally any wiring for things using less than 24 volts. When we built our house, we tried to do all of the low voltage wiring so that it could easily be reconfigured in the future. This is a bunch of notes, tips and links about how I wired my house with low voltage wiring. Hopefully this will give you some ideas on how to wire your house.

The first thing to do is go to the real Low Voltage Home Pre-Wire Guide and look at all of the information there. You can also download a complete booklet (~100 pages) of all of the information contained in that site. This should be your wiring bible and is where I got many of my ideas for wiring my house. This is by far the single most informative site about Low Voltage Wiring that you will find.

Another useful site related to Whole House Audio is located at HomeTech Solutions. It was written by a company that sells and installs Audio Equipment.

My house was a bit over 4000 sq ft in size with a full basement. Here is a partial bill of material of the wire that was used:

Contains:

4500' of CommScope Dual RG-6U 0359 Coax Cable. This is two pieces of RG-6U cable molded side-by-side.

12,500' of Cat 5 cable

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Home Wiring - 9th Tee