New Build Questions

[Shelster]

Hey all....

Me and Mrs S have finaly made the decision to settle into our own place (4 year wedding anni tomorrow and hav ebeen renting all the time we have been together)

When I was chatting to the sales woman the other day I briefly mentioned about having networking run in and she looked rather befuddled and then said 'we don't have that on the options list'

We are supposed ot be meeting the site manager in about 2 weeks so we can go through site rules and also the working drawings for the plot (don't even think the house has had it's foundations laid yet) so am hopeful I may be able to sort somehting out there.

Has anyone had any experiences about this and how did it go?

Have to say, I am one of the worst people when it comes to bargaining / haggling to.

Was looking to have master phone point moved to understairs cupboard along with 2 extra power points put in there. Would be Cat 6 cable run in with 4 x runs to living room, 2 for kitchen diner, 2 for master bedroom, 2 for spare room, 2 for my 'Geek room' and then possibly 1 run for an upstairs WAP on the landing near the loft access hatch.

Development is Cherry Tree Gardens in Plymouth by Taylor Wimpey and the house style is a Gosford (for those that are curious / down right nosey )

 

[Shelster]

Easy enough to run cables at 1st fix.

Surprised Taylor Wimpey don't offer the option for it, as other some developers do.

And I seriously consider x6 runs minimum for living room, tv, blue ray, sky,home av, etc the number requiring networking soon adds up

I thought they may have offered it now, but guess not. Know how easy it will be to run in, but guess it will come down to Mrs S making lots of cakes for the site team . She did mention that we are not allowed on site to do any work until legal completion. Was asking about being able to get in to lay wooden floors (floors and carpets not included either) before they stuck teh skirting on and she said that was a legal requirement for them to get NHBC cover to have teh skirting fitted.... so its a case of paying them to fit the floor or ripping off the skirting when we get in. KNow which one Mrs S will go for and it doesn't involve me breaking out my Dewalt nailer.

On my £225k house I was told by the first sales agent they don't negotiate. The second said "you have £7k to play with. Either buy stuff like a fridge, carpets, etc, or bring down the price of the house". Both were at the same site and house builder.

Side note: I'm intrigued as to why people get networking run. Doesn't everything run off WiFi these days? Fairly sure the latest Macbooks don't even have Ethernet as an example. Most other devices are Wifi only or won't move from near the router (e.g. PS3).

That sounds very promising. Only 1 sales girl at this sitre though.

Am going for wired as have found wifi to be relatively flakey, especially when I am streaming large files. Plus the internal walls appear to be a mix of steel studs (inc platerboard and insulation) and dense concrete blocks, so they will suck the life out of the wifi. Will be usefull for general web browsing etc, but prefer hte reliability of wired.

Have used homeplugs before and they are good when not going across different ring mains.

 

[Shelster]

Some good points to consider there Ev0. Hadn't considered gettgin the sparky ojnside and laying the stuff in before hand and coming back

The extra book did have the spots in the kitchen in there, but as you mentioned, they want a ridiculous amount of money for them. From what I can recall I think they want about £80 per LED spot put in ...... why does my bladder feel very empty