New house coming soon, wiring recommendations

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My girlfriend and I are waiting on our first house being released in a new local development. I have been searching these forums for a while now and i wanted you to your views on what additional wiring i should try and get the builders to install for me while they are building the house.

My current equipment:

Projector
Home cinema Amp
Floorstanding speakers
Bi polar rears

Will be getting
Sky+HD (I Hope)
LG LCD HD Ready screen for living room

What i want to do is get the wall tracked for the LCD but what cables will i get them to install? Will there be cables hanging out of the wall or can i have wall outlets?

I will hopefully be getting 2 Network ports minimum per room, maybe 4 in the living room along with some extra power sockets. The house comes with a phone socket and tv point in each room (3 in the living room). I want to get them to run an extra 2 satelite cables into the living room for the sky+, but would it be a good idea to get 2 satelite points in every room just to future proof the house?

I will hopefully be converting the attic into a home cinema so i wont be worrying about that just yet, but what i will want them to do is run a the cat5e cable into the attic, along with all the tv point cable, sky point cable etc. I want this in a corner in the attic so i wont have to move it in the future but still be able to access it if necessary.

I will also be getting a garden shed and i will obviously have the wiring installed for that at an early stage but im going to get them to run 4 cat5 cables into the garden aswell for the shed. I was going to put some NAS out there in the future or maybe a wireless access point.

Anything else you guys think i should get?????
 
Will they really do this? Usually with developments they build everything to an exact spec set out by the governing company.

Anyways if they will indeed add bits for you, i would simply get trunking installed into the walls with access faceplates. Then you can feed whatever you like through, including power cables if necessary, remember that your cabling needs will change over time, 5 years ago people would have been more than happy with a composite feed plumbed in everywhere :)
 
well they said they would do extras and obviously i would have to pay for them?

Also i dont intend on staying in this house very long maximum 4 - 5 years and then move on. i thought this would eb good for future selling points
 
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