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Originally Posted by dad911

We stopped running cables a few years ago. We will install chases (pvc conduit) from basement to attic, and in places inconvenient to run cabling after sheetrock.

It was crazy, the new Townhome that I'd mentioned earlier, very high end, large smart home, probably the highest priced home ever in that particular neighborhood. They had a room upstairs. The closet in the room had a hole in the floor that was probably 8-12" in diameter. That hole must have had 30-50 cat5/6 cables running through it in a huge bundle. There was a small rack on wheels that I think was probably 4' tall, and that rack was full of the smart home stuff. It was a fairly small closet so that stuff really chewed up all of the real estate in that closet, and it was darn ugly.

It seemed to me that the closet was done as an after-thought, and on top of that, there was a closet downstairs under the stairs in the middle of the house that seemed to me like it would be a great place for that stuff.