Posted by bc on February 05, 2009 at 07:50:06 from (68.88.175.43):
In Reply to: OT - Building a house posted by dr darren on February 04, 2009 at 16:52:25:
Few other things.
Fire sprinklers as mentioned below. At least in the basement for sure which should also be sloped so it will drain in a leak, drain backup, or sump pump failure. Water warning on your sump pump. Have a backup available when it is raining for 3 days and you lose power or pump quits at 2 am with water pouring into the sump. Put the heater/a/c, water heater, softner, etc in the basement utility room situated so any leaks will go straight to the sump first(a little extra slope there).
Carbon monoxide detectors. Smoke/fire detectors in all rooms, hallways, escape routes, utility room and above all elec. panels. Fires usually start around a panel so you want the quickest warning. Same for escape routes if a fire starts in the basement stairwell or hallway, etc. the quickest warning is needed and not have to wait till the smoke gets to the bedroom which may be too late.
Escape windows in all rooms of basement. They are cheap and add a lot of light. In stead of funky concrete window escape wells with a funky ladder, start with the gravel bottom and use stackable landscape stones in an oval shaped well to make a nice stair step going out. Do a few levels/steps with additional space behind the stone to add some flowers or plants on each level. Nice to view from the basement and functional.
Run conduit for all phone, tv, stereo speaker, cable, satelite runs. A few years from now all the cable will be scrapped and we will be running fiber optic and then some other new stuff when invented.
Can't hurt to have plenty of elec outlets. Every bedroom and living room will be rearranged and then you won't have the night stand plugins, headboard plugin, and tv plugins with cable connections on the right wall. At least 3 per wall with a tv/phone connection per wall. With 900 kitchen appliances and cell phone and camera battery chargers, we don't have enough kitchen plugins. All these bulky transformers take up plugin space. Use plenty of plugins in the computer room.
Put in plenty of enclosed shelving and particularly in the basement.
Gotta quit for now, just added another million to your project.
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