More wiring...

Another weekend spent installing wires. This time, while waiting for delivery of another 250 feet of speaker wire, I went ahead and started installing the rough-ins for the temperature and humidity sensors and microphones on the main level. I also drilled another hole through the outer wall of the house but this time in the rear wall. I attached a weather-proof enclosure to the hole on the outside in which I'll install terminals for outdoor speakers and temperature and humidity sensors. (I'll drill small holes to allow some air to pass through.)

A few pictures...

The projector screen wall with wires for left, centre, right speakers and subwoofer.

Bundle of wires running from the utility room. They include speaker wires, CAT-5 for the sensors, and microphone cables.


The rough-in for temperature and light sensor (on left) and the microphone installed in the kitchen. These microphones were designed originally to be used for conference rooms and are sensitive to human vocal frequencies which makes them ideal for voice recognition applications. For the temperature and ambient light sensor, I'll drill tiny holes in the plate and install the sensors in the wall behind it.

In a million years....

...mining prospectors will find a huge copper deposit where my house was. While I still have a few things left to do in the electrical portions I decided to begin working on the home theatre wiring. (I ran out of electrical cable staples and decided to switch gears rather than go out in the rain for a box of staples). The 40-foot HDMI cable for the projector was just the right length with enough slack on either end. I also ran the wiring for the surround sound speakers (front-left, front-right, centre, surround-left, surround-right and subwoofer) and the 2 speakers in the exercise room, all totalling 350 feet of 12 gauge speaker wire. The reason why so much wire was used is that the audio receiver/amplifier is not in the home theatre room itself, but in the utility room. I ordered more speaker wire so I can install speakers up on the plant shelf in the kitchen and rough-in for weather-proof speakers in the back yard for when I build the deck.

I also ordered another 40-foot HDMI cable for the LCD display in the exercise room so I can watch the news when I workout. And since the display will be wall mounted, I also ordered an HDMI wall plate so that the 40-foot cable can install to the plate inside the wall. The plate then provides a clean, professional looking interface point to plug in the display.

Almost 225 metres...

I'm getting close to having all the electrical work done. I may hit 225 metres (738 feet) of electrical cable. And that's just 2-conductor cable. There's some 3-conductor cable in there too. All I have remaining to do, are the bar pendant light fixtures, the 3-way switch for the light over the stairs and terminating the lights that are currently tied off of circuits upstairs. The builders installed basic pull-cord lights in the basement that are powered by circuits from upstairs. I intend to remove the lights and terminate the lines at an outlet. This way, I won't have to terminate it in a junction box somewhere.