come on guys let me show y'all
for those of you who haven't been keeping up this is my new house and there didn't
used to be stairs there in fact a lot of the things around me didn't used to be
here and because the drywall is going on tomorrow this is my last chance to take
you guys around and show you how we took a regular old fixer-upper from 1990
something and turned it into what i am calling the ultimate tech house starting
of course with our lan gaming center room which is wired for power network
and even optical DisplayPort and usb
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first of all i wouldn't have been able to do any of this without well i wouldn't have been
able to do this without Jake too so you should come be a part of this this
is going to be a fun threesome
Jake and i had some strong disagreements about the best way to do the land center
first our plan was to build five dedicated machines to sit at each of the
five stations so three along this wall here another two along that wall over
there and then another one that's over there that's kind of like a utility one
the idea was that the kids computers are going to be one two three where the
screens will face the stairs and we can sneak up on them and make sure that
they're not looking at anything untoward of course none of that was what we
disagreed about we both said look with evolving tech standards we got
displayport 2.0 coming we got usb4 all that kind of stuff coming we're going to
need extra space so we ran two conduits all the way back to the mechanical room
some of which is full with the current standard cables but i said we should
just have one box here with access to everything and then we should just cable
manage everything under the desks Jake insisted hear me out i'm thinking each
station is going to probably have an up desk right maybe i don't know if you want to do
that having those cables cable managed with the desks that's a nightmare if
you're gonna do it just do it right the problem is that you're not wrong you're
just annoying
the contractor advised us that you can only have so many right angles in a
conduit before it just becomes impossible to pull a cable through it so
what we've got then is here where one of our rear top speakers in the theater
room is going to be you'll just pull out the speaker and we're going to have a
pull station so you'll just kind of use these pull cords here and run everything
through as you need they didn't actually run any of the existing cables in the
conduit both conduits should be basically empty oh really they ran all
the fiber you can see right there yeah and all the displayport right there
outside so those don't take up the conduits we've got full capacity for new
stuff those live in the wall forever yeah genius yeah this room sounds
scary it's eerily quiet in here i've been so particular about everything like
they replaced the old inefficient air conditioning unit with a heat pump and i
was like it cannot go right outside this window and they told you you were
unreasonable and they were right but this room is crazy and the sound is
great like we have the new exterior door instead of just the glass double doors
solid door here it's far from my only unreasonable request and i think i got
away with the rest of them so it's wired for seven surround speakers two
subwoofers and four top channels for that great dolby atmos experience and
then cooling has been carefully considered so this cabinet here is going
to have a mesh bottom no no no no
it's not going to have a spot on my mesh bottom your mesh starts part way up
because the bottom is for pillows and blankets for comfort and actually living
in the space yeah so it has drawers okay so your mesh starts probably like here
yeah i thought you said this was our room so it'll have a little oh you guys need a room for
yourself okay okay and then we're gonna have a couple of
banks of Noctua fans like super low RPM
running on the top constantly circulating air through this cabinet
here which is important because the original plan was for us to have the
receiver in the mechanical room so funny story the electrician actually
terminated every speaker location to both the mechanical room and to here so
for whatever reason the cooling doesn't work out in here we can actually run the
receiver and you know xbox playstation
gaming pc all that stuff over there but ideally we want to have it in here
because it's a little bit easier for the less
savvy members of the family no it's not just for me when people have friends
over and they're bringing games or whatever that's tech savvy friends then
we've got conduit from the bottom where we'll have power and networking and then
more conduit over to the mechanical room going up to tv height if we decided to
do a direct view tv or all the way to
projector location way at the top where we've got power so the idea is no matter
what kind of media thing we've either got it wired or we've got conduit
i don't know if you can tell but Linus is a little indecisive
some people call that future proofing i call it not being able to make a
decision i call it content you haven't considered any of the stuff that's going
to make this room look nice and comfortable like all these beautiful
wall sconces that we're going to have oh yeah yeah and our our awesome theater
seating that we've worked out oh and this is cool check this out we haven't
done an hvac update in a long time but here they are smart dampers on the
hvac okay we'll show you in more detail in the mechanical room the dampers they
ended up installing are pretty similar to the ones we showed in the video before but the plan has changed a lot do
i know about this yeah i'll give you an update basically the system that they
ended up using is i think it's called american standard accu-link it's
proprietary af if you want to be able to control that system with its full
potential you have to use their thermostats the american standard
accu-link platinum 1050. does do you feel platinum right now no no it's kind
of ugly i guess that's kind of the american way we made our own standard
rest of the world the main reason we wanted to use smart
thermostats is so we could detect presence in in individual spaces and
shut it off if we're not using it it's very possible that Linus won't have any
friends or co-workers come over for a while maybe his paid friends doesn't get
used in which case we don't need to be paying to cool it we don't need to be paying to
heat it so hey you promised you'd come over
use the pool now home assistant has a nexia smart
home which is like their z-wave based control thing that's not actually like
controllable with z-wave um integration so we can still talk to it
okay but it's cloud it works but it's cloud i said no
batteries no cloud we just put a bounty out
like just say okay five grand five grand right now make a local intervention for
home assistant for these i don't wanna talk to their stupid cloud to adjust my
thermostat it's ridiculous you may pay flow plan to do it
yeah unless someone bounties it first yeah chop chop
i don't know five grand's even reasonable i have no idea how much work that is
oh and this is how decisions get made at our company Linus just willy-nilly throws a number out there and it's like
oh now we have now we committed to it i guess we have to do it now okay make it
10 grand stop it stop it stop it
five actually now's a good time wait wait
wait wait no no i'm not done oh come here so what does this mean for our
young explorer Linus oh lord it means
we're gonna have two thermostats in every single zone two seriously
i didn't know this yeah and we're gonna have heat pump now the
other crappy part about those thermostats is they don't have a set up
for hydronic heating like what you have here which is water that runs through
the house that's heated that heats the whole house so for now we have to have an ecobee
that's going to be running here and then we're going to have our heat pump which is actually for coal this is going to be
so ugly it's going to be a circle for the ecobee right and then a square or
rectangle for the uh it'll look great you're ruining my
aesthetic yes before you type that angry comment
yes we know the only time you would turn down or turn off your hydronic heat is
when you're going to be away for a week or something like that we know please
speaking of hydronic heat shout out to ibc by the way this mechanical room used
to have a huge boiler unit like this for the in-floor heating here and then it
had two giant hot water tanks so that the whole house could be serviced with
hot water all of that has been replaced by this they make super efficient
boilers and their installer went absolutely overboard on this setup and
when i came in get this they were like oh oh and don't worry this is all going
to be copper too we're going to make sure it's all copper i was like that
that was not what stood out to me about it i was like this is so overkill
i don't know this room has more bling than i do i
know runs Linux 2.6 that's kind of old
oh why'd you take it off so that it's off andy is rolling over in his not
grave right now protection i don't even care so what i read on their website is
that all their residential boilers are at least it's like 95.7
efficient at least this one's probably even more because it's like the top spec
one but it's cute it's wall mounted this is some crazy wiring you've got
going on here yeah you might be looking at this thinking that is an insane
amount of cat6a and you would have even missed all of this back here but it's
because of all the access points it's because of the uh cell booster
the cameras that's not even cell booster oh wow okay
it's just cameras and the like 40 other things you wanted Ethernet
right moving out to the rec room this space is going to be awesome once again
indecision i originally said i don't want conduit back to the mechanical room
oh so you finally admit it changed my mind i changed my mind but probably
anything here this is probably going to be where the nintendo switch goes this is where our vr gaming setup is going to
be this room is hardwired with 12 volt
to all four corners for valve index base
stations or whatever kind of external tracking solution we might end up
needing in the future and then we've got a couple of power circuits here so if we
want to put game consoles uh or anything like that the plan is maybe like a big
77 inch tv something like that
wow this really is a three room i saw you look at me and then you look at Jake
just to confirm your decision well i thought you said that you didn't want me to make eye contact with the third party
if we ever did it wow uh there's going to be six total in
ceiling speakers in here which is yeah they they listened to you
apparently you told them that it was supposed to happen i told them four you
told them six they put in six we were here when we talked about it they put in
six that's what they told us and i have enough for that there's gonna
be a subwoofer right here so this is gonna be like
two subwoofers in this room okay see this is why the contractors
hate me because i have you changing things and i have Jake adding things and
okay one big subwoofer yeah okay deal so there's going to be shelves where you
can put i don't know storage books whatever you want knickknacks and then
on some of the upper shelves there's actually going to be carpet inside the shelf itself so our cat can just hang
out here and then we're actually going to have a little um what do you call those bench
bench well it's it's not a bench if you lay on it
there's going to be storage back here where you can put books or board games or whatever and you can chill back here
and just hide out and read hide from your family yeah that kind of thing
or the cat can hide there that'll be my spot so what happened here is there used
to be actual like cabinets here and here and then it was square for like an old
school crt tube tv so what we did is instead of completely redoing this we
actually just took these out and then they built this little skirt so this is
going to get painted black the tv is going to go on a wall mount right here
so the tv actually is going to sit and it's just going to have this black border kind of around it so it just kind
of gets lost in the infinity tv sure yeah you could think of it that way
and then the reason they only did these vertical two by sixes is so that cable
management and cooling back here is going to be super easy oh it's just
gonna stay like this right yeah sick throw it down there pull out the tv and
just be like oh yeah i need to run that thing maybe back here too yeah it's right there yeah
there's conduit there's a conduit everywhere there's conduit on every floor
there is
do you want to see my new kitchen countertops i love this one this one
looks awesome you better love it
it's nice admit it it's nice come on i
don't know come on it's it's okay help her out and help her
out it looks dirty well it is dirty right now
oh look it still looks dirty oh no
my annual review is coming up this week i'm going to get a bad one
okay at least tell me you like this blue that i do like the blue the blue is very
nice yes you should have seen when my mom got new countertops i was like oh
that was like awful she was like
once again indecisive so both of the computer workstation areas here and then
over on that side where Yvonne's going to sit hi vaughn
our wired up for Ethernet power blah blah blah all that stuff and the only
thing Jake and i have to figure out is how we're going to be able to push the
power and reset buttons remotely because Yvonne has not been a fan of it even
with it on the other side of the wall through one simple
close door okay okay it happens all the
time my computer just doesn't work all the time yes or my monitor won't turn on
and there's no way to like fix it without just restarting it i think it's
Thunderbolt related i think Thunderbolt on pc can just be kind of flaky so guess
what you're getting like raw dog direct optical
display so because my desk will be over there so
i'll be facing like this way i'm going to be streaming right so we're going to
have a super cool streaming background this was actually supposed to be my
bookshelf where i put my arts and crafts stuff on and uh somehow this turned into
streaming background i don't know um i i offered to give you this whole room
and you were like no i don't want to be by myself in here
i want to be where you are and so i was all like
all right you know yeah i'll be near you you know if that's uh what you need okay
so then being near me turned into taking up my space more of my space to get my
storage our storage there's a bunch of power in here so that
we can have like cool lighting on the shelves put little knickknacks on there
i don't know maybe there will be RGB involved and that's it for this room
main changes in here these old speakers are going to go we're going to drive all over them they're going to have the same
klipsch in ceiling speakers as pretty much the entire rest of the house they
sound great so that's the thing that's most those aren't the main changes
there's so many other things in here that are going to change like we don't have ants anymore in the walls oh yeah
that was a problem we have all the like chewed up
wood and stuff yep we have all this really nice new tile
okay at least Jake and i agree on this right Jake okay cool i think it looks kind of dirty
oh my gosh i'm kidding i'm kidding and then there's all this
like okay i don't want to talk about the floor
this one that we thought was going to be really nice when we did a bigger patch
of it it ended up having green undertones um now we've settled on one of these two
so people can vote what actually prompted doing renaults in this place was
actually the master bathroom so now the reason we needed to do like permitted
rentals well not in the stairs the stairs i don't regret the stairs i don't
regret the stairs either and i'm glad we did the bathroom but that's just how much the scope of the project has
changed it's crazy the shower's gonna be awesome
got that dual head shower so i call this side
the shower used to be in here with the toilet and it was just like this tiny
little thing um but this is gonna be amazing this is
awesome oh this is nice so if we ever need to get access to the
air handler or anything like that it is that easy
love it i don't know where the light switch is
oh did you ask them to put one in i don't know
so got Ethernet got power just gonna do like a little wall now this is where the
driving simulator is going right driving sim
there's going to be a cellular repeater in this hallway i think in the dead center right
yep and then cameras so the idea is outside of bedrooms and bathrooms to
have pretty good coverage of the house and the area around it oh we should talk
we should show them the cell repeater in the garage yeah so the idea behind the
cell repeater is that there's a rooftop unit that's going to kind of we're going
to kind of point it wherever the best reception is because cell reception here
is terrible it's the coolest cell repeater you'll ever see most cell
repeaters suck because they're all analog this one it's digital we're gonna
do a video on that so stay tuned get subscribed oh yeah we haven't done any LTT storm
engines indoor hoodie GPU shirt oh yeah i got the underwear okay
don't act like you've never seen it either of you
wait all of this four boxes of cell repeater what am i even looking at
okay oh yeah car charger so there's the big
old rugged power cable for it it's going to be mounted to this wall right here
it's a dual head which means that if we ever had two electric vehicles parked in
here we'd be able to charge them realistically it only really comes up when we have guests visiting like her
parents and james always wants to pull into the garage and charge his car when
he comes over so we'll be we'll be all set for that well
the cool thing about that too is it's got a 40 amp circuit and then when you have two cars plugged in it splits the
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