PREWIRE NEW JERSEY

What is a prewire and why do you need one for your New Jersey Smart Home? 

The term prewire or pre-wire refers to the wiring of your home while it is in the construction stage. This is usually done when the frame, roof and outside walls of your home are in place. At this stage you can easily run wires between floors and walls, especially before the sheet rock goes up. You can start planning prewire from the architectural drawings by marking where your smart home devices will go, as well as television and speaker locations. Each of these components will need one or sometimes a few different wires and it is much less expensive to wire them now than later. You can also run PVC pipe, sometimes called "smurf tubing" from the basement to the attic for future wire runs which we will cover in our prewiring outline below. JNS will need to do a walk through after we receive the plans but before the actual prewire. As you may know, or as you will find out, there will be a lot of changes during your new home build journey.

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Warning: JNS has experienced many instances when builders or contractors left the prewire in the hands of an electrician or relative, don't do this. Consulting an expert will save you money, headaches and relationships.