BUILDING TIPS

# 001 When choosing wall boxes for light switches, choose the 2" x 4" deep box ( 2" - 2 1/4") style. Most of the manufactures of home automation product, such as Lutron, LiteTouch, Phast and Leviton use this style. The opposite is the 3" x 3" style which is popular in England. In case you are wondering, most of these companies do made a version of their system to run on the 220 VAC.

# 002 If you are building or renovating, budget for residential cabling systems. It was not so long ago that a water toilet was not part of the main house, now it would be difficult to find a house without one inside. This is the same with Residential Cabling Systems. Houses that are built now, are being designed "Millennium Ready", this in part requires structured cabling which ensure that the "information super-highway", along with other cable services (Telephone, Fax, LAN, Cable etc) can be easily obtained in the residence. This will also improve the resale value of your house (or the rent that you could command

# 003 Do not enter conduits into the wall box from the side, where-ever possible enter from the top and/or bottom. The Electronic switches from home automation manufacturers tend to use up the full width of the box. Contact us for a no obligations quote and some additional tips…

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