DS
Drop Schedule
A table of every low-voltage location in the house, room by room. Data, coax, speakers, keypads, cameras, the door station. Each line tells you the room, where in the room, how high off the floor, what cable, and how many.
In every plan
FP
Floor Plan Markups
Your own plans, marked with every drop in the schedule and dimensioned off something that exists on site, usually a door opening or a wall corner. Both go in the set.
CP
Conduit and Pathway Plan
Cable has to be able to get somewhere later, and this is the sheet that makes sure it can. Sleeves between floors, conduit up to the attic and down to the crawlspace, chases behind millwork, stub-ups for anything outside. You can’t add any of it once the drywall is up. It also reserves room for the rack, with ventilation and a circuit sized for a standard one.
We draw all three together, so they come as one set, with one round of revisions.
Options
RE
Rack Elevation and Equipment Spec
A scaled drawing of the rack or wall panel with every device in position, its rack units, ventilation clearance, and where cable enters. We call out equipment classes, not model numbers. If you have already bought the gear, we draw in what you have. Skip this and the plan still reserves room for the rack, but nothing names what fills it.
Coordination
We come out to the site, and you get a second round of revisions. Worth it on renovations, on difficult structure, and anywhere the building has already drifted from the plans. Included within 25 miles of Kingston; past that we bill travel.
What to send
Floor plans and elevations, PDF or DWG, plus the electrical plan if there is one. If you don’t have the files, your architect does.
How the house gets used. Where people work, where they watch television, whether you want cameras, whether there’s a generator.
And the rough-in date. Start at framing or earlier, while there’s still room to move a chase.
Revisions
Every plan includes one round. Coordination adds a second. A revision means changing what we drew: a moved room, added drops, a different rack location. If the house changes wholesale, that’s a new project and we price it as one.
Who it is for
Builders and general contractors putting up single-family homes, and the owners building them. Everyone expects the technology to work, and nobody on the job owns making it work.
Not included
If something’s wrong in the drawings, we fix it. If the network goes down two years later, that’s a call for whoever installed it.
- Installation and cable pulling
- Device connections and mounting
- Equipment purchase
- System setup and programming
- Service after the plan is delivered and revised
We take no money from equipment manufacturers.
Send plans. Get a set the trades can build from.