I spend a good portion of the weekend working on the farmhouse plans. In addition to being the owner, general contractor, and building the kitchen, I am also the architect. Fortunately for me, the steel contractor has a very accommodating drafting staff so they took my original floor plans and matched them up to the steel building plans.

Given my job is computers and I loath extension cords, as well as stumbling around in the dark, the electrical plan is pretty important to me. Tropical storm Hanna gave me the excuse I needed to stay inside for half the weekend and work at the computer bouncing between two different CAD programs.

Thus far I have the electrical plan as well as the communications bundle. I still need to decide how much audio I bury in the walls and ceiling but that will have to wait as I have had more than enough of looking at diagrams and trying to figure out traffic patterns.

I’ll be ordering a log of CAT-6 as well as a decent amount of RG-6 - but lots and lots of CAT-6 - as well as multi-port plates and configurable port boxes - probably stuff made by Keystone as it will let me snap in just the outlets I need.

For the truly morbid reader, here is the resulting diagram. (Fortunately for my electrician, I separated out the traditional electrical work from the communications using layers so all he will see is the stuff he is responsible for).

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