Building a New Home
When designing your new home it is important to prepare for the various technologies you will be bringing into your home from phone service, to Internet, to video, to alarm systems to home media centers. Strategically plan the locations for telephones, televisions, faxes and computers before your walls are finished; the cost of Cat5e is minimal compared to installing wire later.
Recommended locations:
- home offices,
- entertainment centers,
- bedrooms,
- night stands,
- computer areas,
- kitchen walls,
- counters,
- bars and
- living areas.
We recommend designating a small, heated room suitable for electronics as your equipment room. Placing your media panel in this equipment room provides a central location for all of your wiring.
Silver Star provides wiring services to ensure that your home is ready and equipped to handle all of your entertainment and communications services. We also offer a 10-year warranty on our wiring. Click here to view details on our Certified Home program.
If you choose to wire your own home, the following guidelines will assist you in making sure you have the inside wiring structure necessary for quality services.
- Four Cat5e four pair cables and two dual Coaxial Cables should run from the media center to a point close to the power entry point or the communications enclosure on the outside of the home. Other service providers may need an alternate entry location.
- Run two Cat5e cables from each phone jack location to the media center, one for phone and a separate one for data.
- For possible TV locations, run two Cat5e and one RG6 coaxial cables to the media panel.
- Terminate all cabling using connectors listed in recommended materials list. See the recommended materials below.
Recommended Materials
If you choose to have another contractor wire your building, we recommend you use the following materials to ensure that your building is ready to accommodate the various technologies necessary for your business.
- Cat5e 4 pair station wire
- RJ11 jacks for Voice
- RJ45 jacks for Data or video
- RF connectors for Coaxial Cable
- 3Ghz RG6 coaxial cable for DBS or CATV
Recommended Medial Panel Materials
- Voice Only: Minimum 14” recessed panel or 2’ x 2’ plywood backboard
- Voice and Data: Minimum 28” recessed panel or 2’ x 3’ plywood backboard
- Voice, Data, Video or CATV: Minimum 42” recessed panel or 2’ x 4’ plywood backboard