Hi all,I'm the process of finalising quotes for a new build and wanted to get some ideas/feedback with wiring for TV, home entertainment, internet etc. I've read quite a bit, but I'm still trying to get my head around the best way to approach home wiring. The house is 3 bedroom, 2 living areas and a study (and a 2 story house). I'm planning to place the patchbay/star location in the home office.I've attached two pictures of the house plans with my proposed wiring superimposed. The location of data points etc are approximate (they are placed in the correct rooms):Main questions: 1. I'm not sure of the best way to tackle HDMI distribution to multiple rooms. The main entertainment area will be in the open plan kitchen/dining/living, with DVD, SkyTV and Xbox there. Is it better to place a HDMI 4x4 matrix in that location and then run the cat 6 via extenders from there to the other rooms? Or should it be done like in my diagram where the HDMI matrix would be in the patchbay and then redistributed from there? The second option seems like a lot of extra cabling to take the HDMI to the star point before then 2. Do you think that I've got enough wiring, or are there obvious things that I'm missing? 3. Any idea what you think the above fit out might cost for installing of all the cabling and supplying of the patchaby (I would provide the HDMI matrix and other bits and pieces from monoprice or similiar). Reason I ask is, we've had a couple of electrical quotes, one that was ok, though I still thought was high, and one that claimed doing the HDMI distribution would cost $20K alone (which I thought was outrageous?). Thanks,Tim
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