David Gruttadaurio

While you're at it…

One the biggest regrets a lot of guys have when installing their home theater system is running extra wire.

While the walls are open, pull extra wire and snake-able conduit to those hard to reach locations (i.e. the bedroom) in the house. Think about using two-inch cable conduit into the design phase of your project.

If house-wide music is important, run conduit in open walls to places that may or may not be used… just because. Pull the extra wires for all different media types (video, audio, Internet). It never hurts, and is easiest done when the walls are open.

Without conduit, you'll find yourself tearing into drywall and baseboards to retrofit new cable applications.

Don't kick yourself 6 months or a year from now because you need to reconfigure you're wiring due to hardware and technology changes, and improvements.