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The future of residential building electrical installations

Arran Cameron
This is a spin-off from the discussion What is the best way to wire ceiling lights.


What do you think is the future of residential building electrical installations in 20 to 30 years time? Will they in modern and modernised houses be significantly different from what they are today or will they most likely be barely changed from what they are today?


Will consumer demand be a driving force for change or will electricians only make changes from the status quo in order to comply with updated wiring regs?
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    perspicacious:

    We've now got flat TVs in the middle of a wall rather than the obligatory double and co-ax in the corner to start with!



    As ever, BOD's posting merits a response. I got a marketing e-mail the other day from my local B&O dealer - now's your last chance to get a telly (as with other brands) smaller than 55 cm, or was that 55 in? So the corner is no longer any use, and if you don't have a chimney breast, it'll have to be the middle of the wall.

    I intend to do a "French" so that every socket is a dedicated radial so that the controls/metering mentioned above can be readily accommodated (including E7 or equivalent), hard wire Cat 5e or 6 as a network everywhere, provision for an ELV system of back-up lighting, use of the combination plates of two double sockets and modules in every room wired back to a future UPS supply, power and comms at high level adjacent to windows etc etc. Obviously as it's mine, time and the associated minimal material cost isn't an issue.


    Wires - how 20th century!


    In the 20th century, I installed some ethernet cable so that Mrs P and I could connect our PCs to the 'Net. In due course, my router died. I could not find a wired in replacement - Cisco would not talk to BT. So now I have to be wireless. And yes, there are security implications.


    Back to the OP - I think that the development will be the smart home stuff. God alone knows why you would want to turn things on and of using a 'phone when you are still at work, but the young generation thinks differently from us old fogeys. ?

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    perspicacious:

    We've now got flat TVs in the middle of a wall rather than the obligatory double and co-ax in the corner to start with!



    As ever, BOD's posting merits a response. I got a marketing e-mail the other day from my local B&O dealer - now's your last chance to get a telly (as with other brands) smaller than 55 cm, or was that 55 in? So the corner is no longer any use, and if you don't have a chimney breast, it'll have to be the middle of the wall.

    I intend to do a "French" so that every socket is a dedicated radial so that the controls/metering mentioned above can be readily accommodated (including E7 or equivalent), hard wire Cat 5e or 6 as a network everywhere, provision for an ELV system of back-up lighting, use of the combination plates of two double sockets and modules in every room wired back to a future UPS supply, power and comms at high level adjacent to windows etc etc. Obviously as it's mine, time and the associated minimal material cost isn't an issue.


    Wires - how 20th century!


    In the 20th century, I installed some ethernet cable so that Mrs P and I could connect our PCs to the 'Net. In due course, my router died. I could not find a wired in replacement - Cisco would not talk to BT. So now I have to be wireless. And yes, there are security implications.


    Back to the OP - I think that the development will be the smart home stuff. God alone knows why you would want to turn things on and of using a 'phone when you are still at work, but the young generation thinks differently from us old fogeys. ?

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