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I did a quick check of costings and you are right, there isn't much of a saving by using alarm wire and fittings. As long as you provision enough points and hav

I did a quick check of costings and you are right, there isn't much of a saving by using alarm wire and fittings. As long as you provision enough points and have a patch panel in a central cupboard, the all Cat5 approach will be far better in the long run.

brudgers 9y ago
For the long run, consider running pull-strings in parallel to the wiring so that adding additional capability in the future is easier. At some point I think it is possible that homes will bet low voltage power to avoid converting household current down to DC with "wall warts".