Also easier to clean the vent on both sides

And it also makes hooking up the hose difficult, bending a ridgflex around the vent when there’s barely enough clearance from the back of the pan is a fight to say the least 😅

@@wsveeblurry9342 I've moved the washer and dryer connections on every home Ive owned and probably 25 for a customer.

Well almost all condos and townhomes need to be vented to the roof. You just need to hire the dryer vent guy to clean out your dryer vent every couple of years.

Right, run the dryer vent pipe down. Also, keep it under 10 ft long or put a clean out box in the venting route.👍

Full size fridges are stupid

​@@jamesdeclan7538why?

@@jamesdeclan7538 Why ? Most folks don't live in a NYC apartment !!!

@@jamesdeclan7538 I disagree. They're a good value especially for people with large families.

I agree. Sticky-out fridges look awful.

I was thinking that too!

I have NEVER seen ethernet, coax, or telephone cable run to a master closet, maybe it's a thing elsewhere, but not here in Toronto. I also don't like it in any closet. Assuming you have wireless access points, then the modem, router (always have a separate router from the ISP modem), then the 19" rack logically makes sense to go in the basement utility room where the circuit breaker panel, the telco demarc, and the cable company demarc are. Or a similar location if you don't have a basement (here they are by far more common than a concrete slab foundation, though not required by code, but I don't think anyone here would blame the average person who assumed it was required by code here since they are ubiquitous) then an equivalent location where the circuit breaker and demarcs would be (though not sure how this would work in places where the circuit breaker panel is on the outside of the house, which seems completely illogical to me). Alternatively, a room designated as an office or a cabinet in the living room/den/family room..

Adding door stoppers (I prefer the ones on the hinges) is probably a better solution 🤷🏼‍♂️

Also add blocking for towel bars in bathrooms. Most older houses don’t have that.

Haha your houses are so cheap

Why is running it down better than up? Doesn't it have the same amount of lint? I'm not a contractor or HVAC I just wanna know.

@juggerswood lint has weight, and reacts to gravity, this is considered a gravity vent. When run is vertical, or pointed up, the lint will only go so far up (based on the power of the fan that is providing the exhaust pressure) that is why, even with a horizontal (or flat run) by code a booster fan is required at 16 foot, developed length from the dryer location.

now THIS is truly Excellent planning!

Now that's how you do the networking! At least 1 CAT 6 (if not 6A), if not more, to every room, multiple to where a TV will go, and at least one on each wall a TV could go on depending on the resident's preference (which could change over the years). Proper network wiring includes a standard patch panel, which means a standard 19" rack. I'm not even counting the cameras, just desktop PCs, TVs, TV boxes, other media boxes, switches, access points (at least one per floor, ceiling mounted), wired smart devices (like a Ubiquiti UniFi Protect PoE doorbell camera, I wish more smart devices were PoE, or at least used ethernet instead of some sort of wifi), etc.

Putting a dryer on the perimeter takes away usable square footage In hawaii they could go outside which was cool

Did a few years working for a guy who wanted it spot clean after every single day, couldn’t really complain because we always got paid extra for it and it certainly makes a better working environment when everything is clean

agreed @@100StepProgram

A lot of crews here work Saturdays, or Sundays (though, usually not both, and usually Saturdays, though, if I am doing network wiring, I might be there on a Sunday, if allowed since I never work Saturdays).

Mine is twice the size and too small

I had to come in on a saturday afternoon and install my structured media closet. I lied to workers and said I was with the electrician lol. I then preinstalled fiber and surround sound wiring

I'm outfitting my house with cat6 cabling everywhere as I remodel. Central hub in the basement with a rack mounted setup. Mesh router system that is all wired in. Love having everything hardwired.

​@@robtreibel766agreed! Not nearly big enough

​@GageDrums the mesh router system is awesome! I install those for commercial buildings.

A structured media cabinet was never great, they are non-standard and never facilitated proper wifi)

It's about the couch placement. It saves space and money by not needing 2 couches and not moving the couch to stare at the fire. It has become a trend that people think is necessary or just better for no practical reason. Following trends for interior design is the same as following trends in fashion; expensive and inevitably a complete waste of money when the trend changes.

Get yourself a good recliner and you'll understand

I don t want raise my head that far up to watch TV. Hurts your neck !!!

That way she can pretend to be interested in Sunday football games while really watching the romantic fire..

@@brookelord3448 Our fireplace is in the corner. This leaves a nice custom area for the TV to sit on the good wall. This is one of the big reasons we bought this house.

Structured cabling is great, but not a structured media cabinet, they are not worth the money, are non-standard, and limiting. Better to use a standard 19" rack.

Gotta go where it fits best. I agree though! Close to the outside walls would be best. I have not seen those either. I'll have to get one when I remodel my laundry room!

washer and dryer need to be where people change clothes, NOT in the basement, NOT in the kitchen.

Except the USG is out of date. I couldn't tell if that was a UDM or UDR in the photo (it's not neccessarily from this house, it could jusr be a random photo he found). Whether you use a USG or UDM/UDR, or anynother UniFi router, you can, likely should (or need to ) have additional separate access points. What's an MDF? To me MDF stads for Medium Density Fibreboard, which is a manufactured wood fibre and resin building material.

With EASY access! Concealed behind a hinged lovely painting of a fireplace to remind you to clean it regularly, lol!

It's garbage, just use a standard 19" network rack instead.

That's super cool. 👌

And the media panel needs to be plastic, not a metal enclosure

Just delete the structured media cabinet and replace with a standard 19" rack at least 4U, and at least one rackmounted shelf. This facilitates standard patch panels and standard network devices such as a rackmounted router and switch, or desktop router/switch/modem on the shelf. A structured media cabinet is non standard, makes wiring messy (doesn't matter how you dress it up), and limits the hardware you can use. Also, a network rack is FAR easier to work with WHEN (not if) troubleshooting is needed.

@@technerd9655 A rack is the obvious choice to you and me but it's a hard sell to normies. At least with a swath of wall you have a fighting chance to expand. You can always mount a 1U patch panel and switch vertically if you have to, with brackets or whatever.

@@helmanfrow fair enough, and in a retrofit situation, sure. But in a build like this, it should be used by default.

Better yet, no structured media cabinet, use a 19" rack and multiple ceiling mounted wireless access points.

I like to run a minimum of 2" PVC from the wiring panel to the attic and a minimum 3/4" smurf tube from every drop to the attic (or some central location) . Don't forget a tube from your demarcation point(s) to the attic! 3/4" minimum if you can!

I'd rather have the network cabling run to the basement, not the attic.

Literally all the trades have finished it looks to be ready for 4 way.

I agree especially with the backup pipe but must say we are already at 5 4k cams here and soon to step up to 7x 4k cams and a 5mp in the kitchen but that one is for something else. There's an interest for us in throwing a 4k ptz up the antenna mast for extra.

The box he showed with the equipment was significantly bigger than what was on the build site. What’s on the build site is useless.

When my house was built, I cleaned up inside and out !!

The structured media cabinet is garbage. You also under estimating the number of ethernet cables needed. I would have at least a full 24 port patch panel in a 19" rack for a house of this size. At least one wireless access point per floor (thats at least 2, if not 4, extra for backup or to double the bandwidth if supported by the AP and switch), 3 or 4 for each TV location, but also at least one for every wall that might have a TV since residents might want to change the layout and TV location in a room, need to support a TV, TV box, other media box (like an Android TV box, Roku, Apple), that's probably 10 or 12, plus more for wired smart devices such as a PoE smart doorbell, more for desktop computers and laptop docking stations, server, and such. That doesn't even account for the cameras or VoIP phones (of these are wanted by the resident).

where I live it's 25' max each 90 counts as 5'

Can I ask why? Does it fall or something?

*HE* chooses not to do that. Send him a Certified letter requesting (demanding) it. If absolutely necessary, pay a change order fee. In the alternative, get a subK and Pay them to do it.

That was likely a random picture, not this house, but I do agree, however, go one step further, don't use a structured media enclosure. Use a 19" network rack instead and ceiling mounted wireless access points, at least 1 per floor.

To be fair, the router in the picture may not be from this house, it could just be a random picture using a structured media cabinet in a finished home. Having said that, I agree, should have multiple ceiling mounted access points. And use a 19" rack instead of the stupid structured media cabinet.

Maybe where you are, but it's only in the last 2 or 3 years that the cable company here stopped installing digital cable and went to IPTV only. So yes, running coax is no longer neccessary, but it's relatively recent. But CAT6 ethernet networking cable is absolutely worth the money.

They didn’t just pour the slab, the house is built on it. In the beginning, you can see hairline cracks in the concrete. The fireplace was framed on top of it. Believe it or not, there is some good builders out there, I know, I did lots of work for one. He was very strict about the trades cleaning up after themselves, and absolutely no cigarette butts anywhere on the site.

@@woohunter1 well, if you look closely its not the concrete floor he's walking on, its the fresly poored self-leveling top-layer that goes over it. Believe me, concrete does not have a dustrfree 'shine' like this floor does. And you can see that the plywood floor on the next level is not as clean as the other one, you can see a lot of debri on it laying around...also the stairs are very dusty, so yes, it is very tidy - but for the reason that the topfloor has been poored and you need a clean area for that.

@@jvaneyl5826 well….if you look closely, that is concrete that is not fresh that he’s standing on. The house was framed on top of concrete. It’s poured, not poored. Shiny concrete does exist, I have a high gloss dyed concrete floor in my 4 season porch. And if you knew anything about construction, you’d know that builders don’t put down self leveling topcoats over a new concrete slab.

@@woohunter1 I see you're right about it being the concrete floor...In my country they use other types of concrete (like the one you can see on a vid his channel posted on 4 juli 2023) i was just wondering why they would have cleaned it before the weekend, because in other vids of this channel the concrete floors are a mess, as they usually are on a building site - and you can see when he moves up to the next floor level, that these floors and the stairs are not cleaned as thuroughly. So i figured there must have been a reason why they cleaned these floors that good - it certaninly isnt to leave a clean worksite for the contractor or owner to glance over in the weekends... (and pardon me for my spelling, english is not my native language, but i'm nearly fluent in it so i dont use googletranslate to write)