My house was built last year. My builder didn't restrict me from working on my home so I installed cat5 and RG-6 throughout the house. Being able to work on the house after the electrician was done but the walls were not drywalled was wonderful. If there is no way your builder will let you go in and at least stub in electrical boxes you might tell him you'll pay him to do it. Also, if you have a 2 story house I recommend you also tell him you want a chase running from the basement to the attic so you can run your cables. This way all you'll need to do later on is drill down through the framing between the walls and drop the cable into the electrical box. This will definately be cheaper than 10k. In all I would have spent about 1k for all the cable, jacks, and faceplates I used. BTW, I have nearly 8k feet of cable that I actually installed throughout the house for my voice, video and data lines. -pops |
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