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server room with copper and fiber optic cabling running everywhere i need it vr base stations hard mounted into my ceiling and of course my epic diy air conditioning project that saved me like 20 grand but then my kids asked very nicely i might add if they could have their own rooms instead of all sharing one giant one so here i am in my new house that has absolutely no technology in it whatsoever and this very 90s aesthetic let's talk about what we're going to be changing and how you guys can actually maybe help me here because i'm a little out of my depth but first i need some help from our sponsor glasswire are you having poor quality video meetings use glasswire to instantly see what apps are wasting your bandwidth during the meeting and block them get 25 off today using offer code Linus at the link down below okay i lied to you a little bit before there is technology in the house it's just that um this thing's hilarious the issue is just that what passes for cutting edge home technology has changed a little bit in the last two or three decades so we got whoa look at that so the first thing we're going to change is to rip all of these off the wall and patch over them actually the first thing we did was the opposite of that ripping open a hole in the wall by removing this built-in speaker a to have a look at it and see if it's still pretty decent and it's something we can reuse and b because the box that comes in from the street is right on the other side of this wall and we needed to use a fish stick to bring in fiber optic internet that's right at least here anyway the isp will not come on site and confirm fiber is coming into the building until you have actually taken possession so that was one of the first things i wanted to check because if i was going from gigabit up and down fiber to docsis or adsl that would have been a pretty crummy downgrade and i really wanted to know i could do it fortunately i can it's already going down into the basement so we can just pop this out with that very important thing out of the way we're ready to move on so obviously for my wife things like swapping out this wonderful blue carpet were very high priorities and i'm with her on that we i do want to do that but the tech is where i'm focusing 98 of my attention starting with things like this built-in bookshelf slash media console that's here in the family room now it's super nice really high quality build and my goodness there's so much power in it we've got four outlets in here they've got two in here the only small problem is that it was designed for televisions that were a slightly different size and shape than modern ones this is cool you can pull out your tv and angle it towards the kitchen if you want the intention is that when the kids have taken over the basement mom and dad will still have somewhere to sit and watch a movie and cuddle on the couch so we're gonna put a subwoofer in here with some kind of acoustically transparent cloth that'll also act as a passive intake i'm gonna have cooling fans probably like four or 140 millimeters over here and then anything that requires cooling like game console or pc or whatever else is going to go in here just rip out these drawers what i want to do this is my perfect world and hopefully the modifications can be made is just rip out all of these shelves and put probably a 77 inch tv in here and then so that we can hopefully mostly reuse this structure i'll just do some kind of wall mount that has an ARM coming off of it and then maybe some bias lighting behind the tv so that it doesn't look like it's sitting in a cavern for no apparent reason one cool thing is that four rooms in the house are already wired up for in-ceiling or in-wall speakers so i'm definitely going to want to reuse that and i'm just going to use the same sonos connect amps that i do at my current house plug these in and then i'll probably run a few more of these to the upstairs so the kids can have music in their bedrooms and stuff like that then obviously another high priority for me was a computer room slash office for me and my wife that's gonna be here for a couple of reasons with the biggest one probably being that we are directly above the mechanical room that's where my server rack is gonna go so i think probably in this corner over here we're gonna run a conduit so that i can have a similar setup to what i have now with fiber optic cabling running between my actual desk and monitor and peripherals and the computer which is in a separate room for complete silence and to keep temperatures in this room under control so you don't have the computer out putting heat in here in the summer when you're gaming or whatever the case may be one kind of controversial change is as beautiful and ornate as it is i think we're going to rip out this built-in desk slash storage unit here not because it's not really high quality but it's just really not us now let's head down to the basement we can have a look at that mechanical room that's actually where i think you guys are going to be able to help me and talk about some of the cool tech that's going to go down there oh shoot there's no stairs here yet for whatever reason the previous owners decided not to put these stairs in so we're going to have to go use the other ones smartifying the built-in heating and cooling systems in this house is going to be a huge challenge so heating is handled in floor with radiant water tubes that's super cool and actually there's no reason from like uh an efficiency standpoint to have fine granular control over something like this on your smartphone it's basically set a temperature with it and forget about it the problem is that this heating system is the only thing that has thermostats positioned around the house there are 10 zones for it two in the basement three on the main floor and five on the upper floor each with their own thermostat which would be great because i could just swap all these out with smart thermostats then i could get some uh some dampers and then some smart actuators for the built-in ac which is forced air and then i could have those those smart thermostats communicate to both the heating and the cooling except these are pretty much 1950s technology they have only two wires running to them and they use an actual mechanical mercury switch in order to turn them on and off to my knowledge there's no smart thermostat that will run on two wires one idea i had was taking all these brown guys here so these wires are the ones that run to the thermostats with their two conductors and just putting a simple 24 volt power supply right on the wall here and actually only powering those thermostats and then doing all the communication with them via z-wave or zigbee and then having maybe home assistant tie the whole thing together i'd have to get smart valves for all of the different zones here's the last two and i'd have to find a thermostat that is willing to run with just power and only smart communication with the ac and with the boiler but if you guys have any suggestions man please leave a comment because i am uh i mean i love technology and everything but home automation is something that i haven't touched and can be very overwhelming coming in with no experience whatsoever we are probably going to replace this furnace with a high efficiency boiler system not because the furnace isn't working and won't continue to work but because it could actually end up saving us money so this vent right here is what takes the hot exhaust from both the furnace and the water boilers and just kicks it out of the roof of the house well um because we're going to be putting solar panels on the roof we actually need a nice thick conduit going all the way from here in the mechanical room up to the roof as part of that project if we switch to a high efficiency boiler system we're only going to need about this much for the boiler which would free up the rest of that for the wiring that we need for solar panels on the roof so in the longer term i think that's going to work out really well for us the other thing it'll do is it'll allow me to uh run some kind of like cooling system for this room because i think the server rack's going to go in this corner and i'm going to want a couple of things one is you can actually see the water pipe for the irrigation system over here i'm going to want to triple that so i'm going to want to have two more pipes running through the walls one inlet and one outlet so that i can actually water cool some of the stuff in the server rack and then exchange the heat outside that's right ladies and gentlemen whole home water cooling it's coming get subscribed terrible this is another room that i'm gonna want your guys advice on i mean i know what i like in terms of watching movies and playing games but what i don't know is some of the best practices for building a theater room and this is going to be it i'm going to have conduit running along the bottom to a small stage here that is going to have like cable management holes coming up through it so that uh you know tv if a friend brings over a game console or something you'll be able to plug in here and then all of the av equipment is going to be over in the mechanical room which is on the other side of this wall i'm going to have power on the wall in case we want to wall mount a tv power down there obviously we're going to want to run speaker wire for dolby atmos and all that kind of cool stuff since the i mean it's an unfinished basement so we have a perfect opportunity to do that but guys if there's any sort of guides on you know what to know before you do a a home theater room i'm obviously more than open to it from the theater room this wall is going to be closed in and then there's going to be a double door and that will take us into the land center the idea here is that whether it's my kids and their friends or whether it's our whole family we can all sit and play a game together my kids really want me to try minecraft with them and right now as crazy as it sounds we don't have enough computers in the house to all play together so they use mine and my wife's and then the one that we built into that desk and in my kids room so we're gonna do three desks along here one two three two more along here and then i think we're gonna wire in one more power in Ethernet right here this is going to be kind of like a short wall like a half wall kind of like that and then if you know someone brought over a laptop or something we could have a total of six people playing in here all at the same time i'd love to hear suggestions for cool like if we should do some power in the wall and do like cool like led lighting on the wall or like art or i don't know i want this to be kind of cool and land cavey but the main purpose is a couple of things one having everyone in kind of one place when they're using computers and number two having the 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