House getting Rewired Suggestions welcome & router suggestions

I would say "good distributed wireless" is already now, with emphasis on "has to be good distributed". Hardwired, not WiFi mesh, as opportunity is present.

Have installed Aruba's on few sites, in attic space - superior signal spread, especially where concrete block partition walls, even around the house.

Will mention CCTV cam points

Better looking at it than for it.

For the ethernet cable don't use cat 5e but use cat 6 (or above), as this will allow you to upgrade to over 1G in the future.

Also suggest running a couple ethernet to the attic, you may want to put exterior security cameras or do an attic conversion some stage in the future. Having cables already in place will save on expense and damaging the decoration elsewhere in the house.

Wifi has come along a long way in recent years.

In 1998 I put in 2 x 25mm PVC conduit tubing from my attic to Living room TV on the side of chimney breast, so straight the whole way up.

They used to have the aerial coax in them, then changed to satellite cable, now changed to CatV.

SO My advice is make sure he uses 25mm round tubing so you can change wires easily as technology improves, without redecorating.

I wired CatV to every room but it has never been used except for

3x TV + Kodi + Satellite box

1x Router to Access point

1x Emonpi Smart meter

2x Alarm Panel

4x Cameras

3x Internet radios

1x IP phone (Landline Blueface)

The other thing I would do is ask for neutral wires at switches as this allows for sonoff type switches to be installed in the future.

Bear in mind that adding switches around the house all take current 24/7. This adds up in a year.

I used 1 24 port switch which everything is wired back to it.

I also made a 4 x 13A powerbar which is powered when the 5v from the TV USB is on, therefore the unnecessary TV peripherals are powered off when the TV turns off.

Electricity is getting dearer!

Perhaps Electric car charger ?

Hope this helps

how suitable is an unconverted attic for setting up hub - are temperatures suitable (Cold in winter, hot in summer)?

Absolutely pointless this day and age, less and less items actually have ethernet ports now. As somebody has already said a decent mesh system will be perfect. Whether we like it or not wireless is the way it's going.

Recently rewired & put a double port in every room upstairs (actually put one on the landing & one under the stairs too - no idea what they'll be used for/if they'll be used, but had the flexibility to do it so did, the relative cost is minuscule).

Downstairs, I have a double in the kitchen (mesh unit attached as it gets very bad signal there. This is just a double RJ45 attached to a surface box sitting on tip of the cabinets. In the dining room I have a double, in the office I have a double (should have put four here), in the living room, I have four each end of the room for AV equip, one set is the old one & one set is the new where the AV is now. Probably won't use the old set again, but it's there so we left it. Attic room has four, there was two but the kid up there decided they want their desk in a different place so I added another two while the work was going on.

These are all connected to a 24 port switch. I really need another six ports so m using a mini switch plugged in, not ideal, but I'll fix it soon.

I used CAT5E. probably should have gone for higher but the ground floor & switch were already wired for this & I didn't want to have to re-do.

Put at least a double in each room you have, you may NEVER use it, but the cost is reasonable enough to build in the future proofing now.

Don't envy you doing the rewire BTW, horrible job.

I'm afraid I really really have to disagree. The approach should be wireless for mobile or handled devices but always always go wired for fixed devices and particularly video streaming devices.

Offload as much data as you can off off your wifi network.

Also, always go wired for security related devices such as cctv cameras.

I'm not going to argue with you I was a fiend for wiring as much as I could too but more and more items don't even have an wired port anymore and for relatively small money and little hassle it's easy to build a rock solid wireless network nowadays. I have a switch with the two sky boxes wired to it, the two TV's use their onboard wireless cards and there's never a problem with any of them.

As somebody who designs Wifi only offices, your attitude will either change or you will be left in the dust.

One or two simple Wifi5 AP's can provide more then enough bandwidth for entire households. While I would prefer them to be cabled, mesh has evolved into a suitable alternative for home use.

I have to agree, wireless has come on in leaps and bounds in the last few years. For the first time ever I'm only using the ISP provided router, digiwebs fritzbox, a great little router.