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i absolutely love the house i live in and that's no accident it's taken me 10

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years to get everything just the way i like it perfect Wi-Fi coverage a server

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room with copper and fiber optic cabling running everywhere i need it vr base

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stations hard mounted into my ceiling and of course my epic diy air

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conditioning project that saved me like 20 grand but then my kids asked very

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nicely i might add if they could have their own rooms instead of all sharing

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one giant one so here i am in my new house that has absolutely no technology

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in it whatsoever and this very 90s

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aesthetic let's talk about what we're going to be changing and how you guys

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can actually maybe help me here because i'm a little out of my depth but first i

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okay i lied to you a little bit before there is technology in the house it's

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just that um

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this thing's hilarious the issue is just that what passes for cutting edge home

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technology has changed a little bit in the last two or three decades so we got

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whoa

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look at that so the first thing we're going to change is to rip all of these

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off the wall and patch over them actually the first thing we did was the

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opposite of that ripping open a hole in the wall by removing this built-in

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speaker a to have a look at it and see if it's still

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pretty decent and it's something we can reuse and b

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because the box that comes in from the street is right on the other side of

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this wall and we needed to use a fish stick to bring in fiber optic internet

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that's right at least here anyway the isp will not

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come on site and confirm fiber is coming into the building until you have

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actually taken possession so that was one of the first things i wanted to

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check because if i was going from gigabit up and down fiber to

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docsis or adsl that would have been a pretty crummy downgrade and i really

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wanted to know i could do it fortunately i can it's already going down into the

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basement so we can just pop this out

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with that very important thing out of the way we're ready to move on so

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obviously for my wife things like swapping out this wonderful blue carpet

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were very high priorities and i'm with her on that we i do want to do that but

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the tech is where i'm focusing 98 of my attention

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starting with things like this built-in bookshelf slash media console that's

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here in the family room now it's super nice really high quality build and my

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goodness there's so much power in it we've got four outlets in here they've

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got two in here the only small problem is that it was

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designed for televisions that were a slightly

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different size and shape than modern ones

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this is cool you can pull out your tv and angle it towards the kitchen if you

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want the intention is that when the kids have taken over the basement mom and dad

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will still have somewhere to sit and watch a movie and cuddle on the couch so

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we're gonna put a subwoofer in here with some kind of acoustically transparent

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cloth that'll also act as a passive intake i'm gonna have cooling fans

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probably like four or 140 millimeters over here and then anything that

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requires cooling like game console or pc

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or whatever else is going to go in here just rip out these drawers what i want

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to do this is my perfect world and hopefully the modifications can be made

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is just rip out all of these shelves and

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put probably a 77 inch tv in here and

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then so that we can hopefully mostly reuse this structure i'll just do some

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kind of wall mount that has an ARM coming off of it and then maybe some

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bias lighting behind the tv so that it doesn't look like it's sitting in a

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cavern for no apparent reason one cool thing is that four rooms in the house

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are already wired up for in-ceiling or in-wall speakers so i'm definitely going

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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

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and then i'll probably run a few more of these to the upstairs so the kids can

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have music in their bedrooms and stuff like that then obviously another high

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priority for me was a computer room slash office for me and my wife that's

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gonna be here for a couple of reasons with the biggest one probably being that

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we are directly above the mechanical room that's where my server rack is

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gonna go so i think probably in this corner over here we're gonna run a

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conduit so that i can have a similar setup to what i have now with fiber

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optic cabling running between my actual desk and monitor and peripherals and the

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computer which is in a separate room for complete silence and to keep

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temperatures in this room under control so you don't have the computer out

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putting heat in here in the summer when you're gaming or whatever the case may

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be one kind of controversial change is as beautiful

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and ornate as it is i think we're going to rip out this built-in desk slash

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storage unit here not because it's not

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really high quality but it's just really not us now let's head down to the

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basement we can have a look at that mechanical room that's actually where i

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think you guys are going to be able to help me and talk about some of the cool

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tech that's going to go down there oh shoot

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there's no stairs here yet for whatever reason the previous owners decided not

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to put these stairs in so we're going to have to go use the other ones smartifying the built-in heating and

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cooling systems in this house is going to be a huge challenge so heating is

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handled in floor with radiant water tubes

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that's super cool and actually there's no reason from like uh

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an efficiency standpoint to have fine granular control over something

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like this on your smartphone it's basically set a temperature with it and

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forget about it the problem is that this

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heating system is the only thing that has thermostats

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positioned around the house there are 10 zones for it two in the basement three

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on the main floor and five on the upper floor each with their own thermostat

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which would be great because i could just swap all these out with smart

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thermostats then i could get some uh

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some dampers and then some smart actuators for the built-in ac which is

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forced air and then i could have those those smart thermostats communicate to

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both the heating and the cooling except

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these are pretty much 1950s technology

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they have only two wires running to them and they use an actual mechanical

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mercury switch in order to turn them on

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and off to my knowledge there's no smart thermostat that will run on two wires

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one idea i had was taking all these brown guys here so these wires are the

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ones that run to the thermostats with their two conductors and just putting a

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simple 24 volt power supply right on the wall here and actually only

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powering those thermostats and then doing all the communication with them

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via z-wave or zigbee and then having

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maybe home assistant tie the whole thing together i'd have to get smart valves

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for all of the different zones here's the last two

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and i'd have to find a thermostat that is willing to run with just power and

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only smart communication with the ac and with the

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boiler but if you guys have any suggestions

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man please leave a comment because i am uh i

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mean i love technology and everything but home automation is something that i

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haven't touched and can be very overwhelming coming in with no

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experience whatsoever we are probably going to replace this furnace with a

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high efficiency boiler system not because the furnace isn't working and

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won't continue to work but because it could actually end up saving us money so

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this vent right here is what takes the hot exhaust from both the furnace and

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the water boilers and just kicks it out of the roof of the house well um because

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we're going to be putting solar panels on the roof we actually need a nice

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thick conduit going all the way from here in the mechanical room up to the

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roof as part of that project if we switch to a high efficiency boiler

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system we're only going to need about this much for the boiler which would

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free up the rest of that for the wiring that we need for solar panels on the

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roof so in the longer term i think that's going

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to work out really well for us the other thing it'll do is it'll allow me to

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uh run some kind of like cooling system for this room because i

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think the server rack's going to go in this corner and i'm going to want a

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couple of things one is you can actually see the water pipe for the irrigation

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system over here i'm going to want to triple that so i'm going to want to have

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two more pipes running through the walls one inlet and one outlet so that i can

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actually water cool some of the stuff in the server rack and then exchange the

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heat outside that's right ladies and gentlemen whole

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home water cooling it's coming

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get subscribed

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terrible this is another room that i'm gonna want your guys advice on i mean i

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know what i like in terms of watching movies and playing games but what i

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don't know is some of the best practices for building a theater room and this is

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going to be it i'm going to have conduit running along the bottom to a small stage here

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that is going to have like cable management holes coming up through it so

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that uh you know tv if a friend brings

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over a game console or something you'll be able to plug in here and then all of

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the av equipment is going to be over in the mechanical room which is on the

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other side of this wall i'm going to have power on the wall in case we want

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to wall mount a tv power down there

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obviously we're going to want to run speaker wire for dolby atmos and all

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that kind of cool stuff since the i mean it's an unfinished basement so we have a

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perfect opportunity to do that but guys if there's any sort of

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guides on you know what to know before

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you do a a home theater room i'm obviously more than open to it from the

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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

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the land center the idea here is that whether it's my

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kids and their friends or whether it's our whole family we can all sit and play

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a game together my kids really want me to try minecraft with them and right now

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as crazy as it sounds we don't have enough computers in the house to all

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play together so they use mine and my wife's and then the one that we built

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into that desk and in my kids room so we're gonna do three desks along here

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one two three two more along here and then i think

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we're gonna wire in one more power in Ethernet right here this is going to be kind of

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like a short wall like a half wall kind of like that and then if you know

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someone brought over a laptop or something we could have a total of six people playing in here all at the same

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time i'd love to hear suggestions for cool like if we should do some power in

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the wall and do like cool like led lighting on the wall or like art or i

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don't know i want this to be kind of cool and land cavey but the main purpose

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is a couple of things one having everyone in kind of one place when

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they're using computers and number two having the stairs come down right behind

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with all the screens visible so that i can see what's on the screens when i

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walk downstairs without any notice you know parent things all this house

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touring is making me thirsty i'm just gonna pop in here and get a drink

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if only i brought a water bottle lttstore.com and finally this is where

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my vr gaming setup is gonna go we're gonna do yet another console we'll

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probably put like a pretty modest tv here and then there'll be couches that

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are like way the crap out here

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weigh the crap out here because i want a vr gaming space that's about as big as

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what i have in my living room now for playing games like gorn having the

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couches in the tv is for a game called takeling's house party it's super fun

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and then this wall is actually gonna see you later wall and we're gonna open

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this up so this is gonna be like a games table uh we'll have game storage

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in that closet that's behind andy and then this is going to be relocated

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against this wall which actually i think starts here so it's going to be rotated

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90 degrees and you know that'll be where kids can

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get their snacks or whatever so it'll be right between the lan center and the

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games table and the vr space wireless access points so

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ruckus generously offered to consult with me on the best place to put them i

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drafted some in like five or something like that to make sure

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i've got coverage when i'm working on a project in the garage i want coverage

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outside so if we're on the patio and all that kind of stuff i think one of them

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is going to go in this hallway anyway what's also in this hallway is the

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single control for the air conditioner so we've got humidity

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as well as temperature control and this is something that i've gotten very used

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to at our current place with our mini splits being able to control the ac room

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by room because a it's a comfort thing not everyone

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likes the temperature the same and b it's a huge efficiency thing if the kids

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are away at their grandparents i can turn off the air conditioning in their

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room close the door and save a ton of money so i want to figure out what we

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can do in terms of altering the ducting with dampers to um get room by room

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control and then i want to replace these there's a ge switch that actually this

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was really generous the hookup you guys can check out his channel here he's

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helped me with some stuff already super nice guy uh test it out for me it's got

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a motion sensor and a switch built into it and apparently they report

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independently to home assistant which is super cool because it means that i can

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do things like presence detection so if nobody's in the basement according to

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the motion sensors that are on all of my light switches i could just

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turn off the ac

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another thing that's going to be really expensive is installing electric car

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chargers in the garage so we want to have a two head one just in case we

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change the minivan out for something electric in the future and that's going

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to go in here so that big old thick cable instead of running

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from my electrical panel in my garage which is where it was in the old house

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to the garage is going to have to run from the mechanical room which is way over on

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the other side to the garage

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fortunately we've got all the charging we need for these electric cars already

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