Needs for new house

Version 22 June 2019

  •  planning
    • gas meter out of plain view and protected from ice and snow
    • electric meter out of plain view 
    • water meter reader out of plain view
    • comcast box out of plain view
    • show-off location for the Kokopelli
    • place in master bedroom area for safe
    • TV room stepped areas?
    • garage door openers on UPS
    • garage door-closed sensors
    • glass door to see and access rack of wire center
  • foundations, footings, excavations
    • drain line to daylight for sump pump
    • sump pump pit, drain lines to sump pump pit
    • generator pad
    • UF cables along new driveway
    • culvert at end of new driveway
    • smurf tube under new driveway
    • irrigation box near sensing loop
    • piers for solar array
    • trench to solar array
  •  plumbing
    • shower controls away from shower heads
    • water line for ice maker
    • hose bibs plumbed for hard water, not soft
    • gas line to lower deck
    • domestic hot water from storage tank with circulating loop
    • clothes dryer area piped for natural gas and vented
    • gas line to generator location
    • gas line to potential fire pit on terrace
    • gas line to grill location on terrace
    • gas line to overhead heater locations on terrace
    • ball valve near main door, for all domestic water other than boiler
    • gas line to reconnection point for gas meter
    • pipe from sump pump to reconnection point for cistern pipe
    • pipe to reconnection point for water line
  • electrical
    • in living and dining areas, floor boxes for electric and low voltage
    • some electric outlets have USB charging ports
    • clothes dryer area wired for electric
    • ground rod at location for new comcast feed
    • ground rod at location for telephone network interface (six-line) (is it really needed?)
    • transfer switch
    • ground rod with thick cable to wire center
    • 24 volt transformer in wire center for doorbell and Gargeio
    • EV charging outlet in garage – maybe two depending on number of garage doors
    • UF cable to sensing loop in new driveway
    • UF cable to light at end of new driveway
    • UF cable to electric outlet positions in new driveway
    • sensing loop in new driveway
    • power to elevator equipment area
    • to reattachment point for lines from cistern x2
    • to reattachment point for lines from driveway x3 
    • to solar array
    • Decora white switches and outlets and cover plates
    • neutral wire to all switch locations
    • deep boxes at all switch locations
    • outlet by each toilet for possible Japanese toilets
  • communications – see low voltage page
  • CTL Thompson – P. E. George W. Benecke III
  • demolish playhouse
  • heat tape retrofit for drain line to cistern
  • C study
    • hidden door
    • place for multifunction printer with two ethernet jacks and electrical outlet
    • desk area having two ethernet jacks and electrical outlet
  • E study
    • place for multifunction printer with two ethernet jacks and electrical outlet
    • desk area having two ethernet jacks and electrical outlet