Dolgen House Job

Talked to Scott regarding the office--
	Directly in the door, to the left, they will be putting in builtins from floor to ceiling.
	
	On the exterior wall with the window, they will have a free standing desk for working
	
	On the interior wall shared with the den, they will have a builtin desk for working
	Scott said his directions was that there should be no "obvious cabling", with all connections hidden just below the desk line and out of sight
	
	The current connections in the interior shared wall will be lowered and put out of sight
	
	We need to pull a cable(s) from the shared wall, through the exterior wall, to connection boxes that will be installed just under the free standing desk surface

	There will be grommetted holes in the desk for cord access according to Scott

Scott did note that if walls have to be opened, no problem. They have opened many of the walls and ceilings in the house to get to existing wiring/plumbing, etc. He said "wallboard is not an issue". They have some time before they will be wallboarding, so we have time to get in there and knock it out.

I asked about the trim/finish and Scott said we should plan on using "the best stuff we can find". I said "Decora?" and he said that was what was probably going to be used since it's already throughout the house.

After looking at the rat's nest of cable in the box, I asked Scott who was doing the phones and he said they were. So, my assumption is that we are only doing the data work, no phones or cable TV. Is that correct?


Issues:
	The shared wall is a separation point between not only the den and the office, but between the "slab" part of the house and a part of the house that is elevated about 2,5 feet above the grade. That grade ends where the wall at the end of the garage is located. There is an access door in that wall to the crawl space.
		A) I think (could not get into the crawl space because the plumbers were working in there - actually not sure I can even get through the crawl space door) that we need to run cable from the bottom of the interior wall near the slab, through the crawl space, into the garage ceiling, and across to the new box. Will require some serious fishing if not opening the garage ceiling, depending on what we find in the crawl space.

	The cable ends throughout the house are in various states - some are attached to existing boxes/jacks, others are cut off, most of the cable is in good shape, but some of the ends look pretty trashed. We should probably to a cable check *before* they start sealing the walls to see if there are bad cables. Obviously we'll check afterward, but if we need to pull an entire cable because of all the jacking around the construction guys are doing, we'll need to find out sooner than later.

	The guest/pool house in the back has one data port that I could see, and another line that was "an extension". If that's a splice, than the extra line isn't going to work. That building is pretty much stripped because they are replacing the dooring there to match outside doors from the main house.

	If they want us to install the cable in the office in the exterior wall, we will need to use a right-angle drill, which we do not have, to get through the studs in the wall. If the electrician is going through that way, we might be able to get him to do the drilling for us, but then it begs the question of why are we installing that cable in the first place. 


Open House Gear - I checked out this type of gear because it is what is installed. We don't have to use this, but I checked it as a reference point, especially if Ellen wants "continuity". We can get a box the same size, with cover, lock, knockout grommets, and 4 outlet power, for less than $100 (about $89 w/o tax). http://www.hometech.com/techwire/ohenc.html is the reference site for the above pricing.

Found the spool of leftover cable from the office job - more than enough for what we need to do. Would suggest that we check/replace many of the jacks in the house because of the construction. If we had the time and the patience, I would suggest pulling the data out of the first cabinet, and leaving just phone and TV in that cabinet and data alone in the second box so we don't have anyone jerking around the data once it gets set up.

Have we considered using the modular equipment that goes into these types of cabinets? Can't say I'm familiar with the performance/spec's of these modules, but regular sized equipment in one of these cabinets might generate more heat than would be prudent. Not sure, something to consider.