Cables! Camera! Suction!!

We are going to be doing the installation for a central vacumn cleaning system and have found a couple of really good websites for info....We bought the pipes and fittings last week and have started to drill holes for the outlets, there will be a total of four hose outlets, one on each floor plus one in the garage.

Yes, we'll be dragging our hose from floor to floor.....

Check out the vacs here:
http://builtinvacuum.com/products_home.html
http://www.centralvacuumstores.com/

We are also pulling structured wiring throughout the house. The bedrooms and offices and Living Room and Kitchen will all have 2+2 outlets. (2 Cat5e and 2 Coaxial wires are bundled together and pulled together.)

Check out this excellent website for more info:
http://www.hometech.com/

Since we'll have 3 stories to navigate when the door bell rings, we have decided to install a camera/intercom to monitor front door visitors. The company we are using has a deep line of products, we found one that will be flush mounted in the stucco, check them out here: http://www.aiphone.com/General_Info/What

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Fridge is in

The kitchen cabinet bases are all installed, the only appliance we have placed is the fridge. The others will go in over the next week or so....you can see the Eucalyptus veneer on our cabinets....yes, they are from IKEA.....it has been a lot of work for Jeff to put them together, but they were significantly less expensive than the other choices we looked at.

3rd Floor bathroom progress

One of the cool things about the house is that when taking a shower in the 3rd floor bathroom, ones head will be in the skylight dome....Do they issue tickets for flashing a helicopter? You can also see that the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) guys started last week. They started to pull duct work up to the air exchanger and fan on the 3rd floor.... All 4 of the toilets in the house are wall mounted Geberit low flow toilets with dual flush mode. You can see the `carrier' for the toilet in the middle of this pic. The tank for the toilet is hidden in the wall cavity. We bought almost all of our plumbing fixtures online. The sinks and toilets were purchased from Ira Wood & Sons in Kentucky. They have an excellent website for comparing products: http://store.yahoo.com/irawoodinc/tewamotosy.html

Out of the gutter and into the cold..

Although the stucco guys completed their job a couple of weeks ago, some minor cracks developed in 3 areas and they have come back to patch them up..... Having the scaffold up for the stucco guys allowed our gutter guy to hang the final piece.... On Wednesday of this week the guys from Airsmiths installed the air conditioning condenser...If you're wondering if that is the American Standard Allegiance 14 Super Efficiency Condenser, you would be right! It is made in Texas in the same factory that Trane air conditioners are made at. http://www.americanstandardair.com/Products.asp?Section=homeOwners&ProductID=7&CategoryID=16&SuperCategoryID=1

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