What To Consider When Building A New Home
Often times when building your dream home, the excitement and novelty of watching your home be built from the ground up can make you blind to small details that, once the home is finished and you’re moved in, you will realize you should have done before hand and now to retrofit will cost significantly more.
We see it time and time again that someone builds a house with an inaccessible attic and decide they want speakers on their porch or in their vaulted living room ceiling. Although it can be possible, the labor required makes the cost jump significantly. This is where partnering with a local audio video company to help you run through your option is important.
The pre-wire phase is the most important decision to make in the AV design phase of your home. When starting your design, you have to think about what you want immediately, what you want in the future, and what you may possibly want one day.
Pre-Wiring: The Key to Unlocking Your Home's Full Audio-Video Potential
In an age where technology seamlessly intertwines with our daily lives, pre-wiring your home for audio-video installations has become a strategic move for homeowners. By investing in pre-wiring during the initial construction or renovation phases, you are future-proofing your home for the rapidly evolving world of entertainment. With pristine wiring infrastructure in place, you can effortlessly integrate your audio-video systems, from immersive surround sound to high-definition displays, across multiple rooms. Whether you wish to create a dedicated home theater or distribute audio throughout your living spaces, pre-wiring your home ensures optimum performance, eliminates unsightly cables, and provides the flexibility to adapt to ever-changing audio-video technologies.
Areas You May Not Have Thought About Pre-Wiring
Many of our customers do not realize they wanted it until we showed it to them and installed it. Now many of those same customers say they couldn’t live in a house without it. The most often overlooked location for audio in the home is the master bathroom. Once you have the ability to walk in and hit a button that says “His Music” or “Her Music” and the speakers kick on with a rockin' radio station like the Beatles while you’re brushing your teeth or getting ready, you will never be able to go back. The cost of adding a zone of audio like this is minimal in the grand scheme of things, so we always recommend that customers pre-wire the speakers, even if they aren’t sure they want it right away.
The second most frequently ignored location in a home for audio is the back patio or the future pool area. Often times, the attic space above patios is walled off from the attic for insulation purposes, which makes adding speakers on the patio a real pain in the rear in the future. By adding an extra zone of audio for two speakers facing the back patio, in the instance you add a pool in the future, you will have the cables poked out of the soffit so surface mount box speakers can be mounted and pointed at the pool.
Can I Do It Myself?
Absolutely! Although we have to say, if you are not experienced in this kind of high ladder and open attic crawling in areas where a single misplaced foot could mean a 10-15 foot drop to concrete, do it with caution. If free time is not something you have a ton of, hiring a local professional like Weatherford Audio Video is your best bet. In the time it takes a homeowner to run and install a single speaker, on average our team can complete 4!
