On Jun 10, 8:03*am, Tim Watts wrote:
Tim Watts wrote:
sm_jamieson wrote:

2. various wall plates - OK but difficult to future proof. Need at
least 3 x cat6 (can take HMDI also), 2 x coax, some audio cables, etc,
etc.
3. Some type of big modular wall plate that can be customized with
snap-in modules in the future.

Mixture of both:

I have sunk extra back boxes above most of my sockets with seperate
conduit runs. The boxes are mostly singles, with the odd double.

I plan to use Euromod type faceplaces into which you can snap pretty much
a module for anything that exists[1]. Euromod should be pretty furture
proof - and if not, there *will* always be a standard faceplate with some
sort of modular option.

[1] I've seen everthing- VGA, sat, aerial, network, fibre optic,
[louspeaker
to name a few.

I would avoid the "mega custom" modular plates, especially the combined
13A socket + ELV ones. They are too custom and I personally like a bit of
plaster at least between my mains and ELV stuff.

Cheers,

Tim

That wasn't clear... Use modular as 3) but use standard plate sizes as 2).. A
double plate takes 4 modules.

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Tim Watts

Euromod sounds interesting.

To repeat what I just wrote in response to Gareth,
for the cable duct outlet in the wall:

I was imagining something that looked like a small upside-down
ventilation cowl, just under the wall cabinets, so the cables would
exit from this upwards in a fairly tidy manner, and the "hole" in the
wall would be hidden from any likely viewpoint.

I still think that sounds intriguing.

Simon.