In process of building a house, cameras etc? Update and more questions

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Should I have someone come in and "prewire"

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Yes

Run Cat 6 to anywhere you’d want a camera (for POE cameras)

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Will have one outbuilding that needs support, about 80' from the house.

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Bury some conduit with a few cat 6 runs in there too

My buddy just built a house and had them put outdoor electrical outlets under the soffit around his house for cameras and christmas lights and I thought that was a really good idea.

Pre-wire for a few cameras and/or Christmas lights.

Congrats on the new house!

I ran wire to all the places that made sense to do and plan to use POE for cameras. I also added extra wiring for AP's, and ran two lines to a detached garage, one for use, and one for spare.

I'm quite sure I have way more wire than I need, but would rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

I wanted to have wired connections for TV's and work space locations, everything else can be wireless. Was able to just secure the new Netgear Orbi wifi 6 equipment, so super excited about having that.

Kind of related but I know of two homes being built right now and the price that was quoted for ethernet drops was ridiculous. $75 a drop. I feel like I should open up a side hustle and do them for $40-50 a drop and make out like a bandit.

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I know of two homes being built right now and the price that was quoted for ethernet drops was ridiculous. $75 a drop.

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Is that just pulling wire or does it include finishing up after the sheetrock is up?

So any recommendations for someone near Baton Rouge/Prairieville to do this?

I'm sure I could do it, just hard to squeeze everything building a house and work in.

But I still might.

I ran 1.25 or 1.5 inch conduit from the attic down the walls where I was going to put my TV's to an orange low voltage box. let it stick up in the attic about a ft. or 2 so it is above the insulation. It is super easy to run Cat6 or coax this way. I put a 4 port keystone jack cover plate with 2 cat 6 jacks, one coax, and one HDMI jack. All my bedroom TV's are hung around 5.5 to 6ft above floor. I put some 2x12 blocks between studs to have somthing solid to attach the mounts to on each side of the low voltage and receptacle to not worry about having to hit a stud with mounting bolts. Install electrical receptacle there too so no exposed wiring. You dont need cat 6 to your thermostat, just get your AC guy to run a 5 or 6 conductor there as most wifi tsats take a common wire to work for power from the air handler.