The stage of redevelopment of any house, flat or home that you can ensure that your communications equipment and media options are catered for is the planning stage. it may seem crazy to be planning where you are going to be sitting to watch TV or listen to music or even take a phone call but it is at this stage that you get to specify cable runs in walls. The developer, builder and trades people will all work from various stages of the plans that your architect provides them. The stage where you must make it known about which entertainment facilities you want in each room is so early on that most people miss it. Unless you have a designer or architect that can gently encourage you to think about these things when you actually are still only just able to imagine the shell of the building, you have to do this for yourself.
The many options to cover are cables for TV and DVD watching, music, broadband internet and phone lines. Each of these will need cables of differing types running to the various places that you want to experience them. The various different types of cable and satellite into your house will need cables from the boxes to the screens. So you have a cable from the Sky plus box to the TV and if it is Virgin then a cable from the Virgin hd box to the screens. You must decide on what services you are having from the outside because the cables for each can be different. So check out carefully the differences between each type of box, like the Sky hd box is a different thing from a freeview box. You get the idea.
So dont miss this opportunity early on to get exactly what you need and want – the cables cost very little but the retrospective fitting of them can cost a fortune.
