I guess I can commend Wesley's thinking. He's probably tired of seeing all of the BS wiring jobs out there and feels that some major push will elevate the standard. I have beat my head against too many walls to believe this anymore. Builders have sucked me for knowledge by having me do one house and then copying the work and handing it back to sparky... only sparky still manages to f--k it up even with that. They don't want to spend a lot of money... they want to sell a house.

So you send this to every builder in the country at an amazing expense (where the hell do you get the capital for that and what is your ROI). The US Mail keeps up their "standard of excellence" and loses 2 % of your mailings. Another 8-10% come boomeranging back to you because Jed the builder moved or has the wrong address listed. 90% of the recipients throw your lit in the round file and tell sparky to daisy chain the phones and put cable splitters in the wall behind the sheetrock without ever having read your standard. 90% of the remaining 10% begin to read it... realize one paragraph in that they can't understand what the f--k you are talking about and throw it in the round file. Of the few left that actually read it... most will begin to question why they should spend the extra money to put more than the extremely basic package in that is still selling homes.

Lets face it... structured wiring is at best a crapshoot. Most people that have it NEVER open the little white box. All they give a s--t about is that their phones and cable work. How many of you have seen "free" DIRECTV installs where the cable is stapled all over the house with an exterior wall penetration running over the fireplace to the sat receiver when 4 RG6 cables sit waiting in the attic going right to the structured panel. THE END USER IS THE CUSTOMER HERE!!!! Wire what the builder wants and invest heavily in the thickest Smurf Tube that will fit. Watch the house you wired... when it sells, market to the customer (most prewire companies do a really s----y job of following up). It is better to tell the client that the wiring package is basic and you need to do upgrades than to lie and tell them that everything they could think of is ready to go. Get good at retrofit and you'll find that you can charge a bit more in the end without gouging the client and everyones happy.

Good luck with the wiring standard... you've got a long way to go if you believe that it will be adopted and turned into 2005 code... and even if it does... by the time it goes to print, things will have changed and you'll be as obsolete as that splitter in the wall. Just be the best, most up to date systems integration pro you can be and leave it at that.