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Don't know what finances are like, but to save money its quite simple to convert old routers into wifi repeaters. Works out a lot cheaper than buying the purpose made ones?
Also, in terms of tech, we're working on a big resi tower in the City at the moment and had a firm create an app for the residents specific to what's being provided tech wise. Its pretty cool as means everything is in one place and its specific to them. Sure there's plenty of forumers who have those skills...
Oh... also there are plenty of clear solutions available now to tanking the stonework, another option could be a limewash? Some of the options are relatively cost effective too
mjw1988-
Don't know what finances are like, but to save money its quite simple to convert old routers into wifi repeaters. Works out a lot cheaper than buying the purpose made ones?
Also, in terms of tech, we're working on a big resi tower in the City at the moment and had a firm create an app for the residents specific to what's being provided tech wise. Its pretty cool as means everything is in one place and its specific to them. Sure there's plenty of forumers who have those skills...
Oh... also there are plenty of clear solutions available now to tanking the stonework, another option could be a limewash? Some of the options are relatively cost effective too>Finances are always tight! Do like the idea of having a simple app developed though, will add that to the 'wants' list.
See my next post on insulation about the stonework...
Sam_w
So whilst we wait for the structural report and start dealing with builders to get quotes to get the work done, we are thinking about some of the tech we want to hide in the house. our current thinking is that we don't want to make it into an obvious smart house (no fancy panels in the walls etc.) as it wouldn't be in keeping with the property, so all tech solutions have to be hidden and controlled remotely (phones, tablets).
Things we are doing
Cabling the whole house (unsure if Cat6a is worth double the cost of cat6?)
Due to the thick walls and fact we have three floors we will have a few wireless access points throughout the house (no phone signal there so we rely on wifi calling through EE), current thinking is to use these
Will be running a NAS drive (4x3tb raid) connected to a plex server hidden away next to the switch in a utility room, TVs will have Chromecasts attached to them to serve the media.
Every room will have a audio zone set up: in the lounge this will be 5.1 (or 7.1?) surround sound connected to a decent amp. Other rooms will have a mini amp connected to bookshelf speakers. All amps will be connected to chromecast Audios and set up as zones to be controlled from phones. All speaker wire will be embedded in the walls, not sure what gauge I should be going for though?
Sure there will be other tech solutions, wouldn't mind remote control lighting, but haven't looked into that yet.