Re: lack of support at Home Technology Store

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try a flat top, with block walls firred out with only 1" firring strips,
built on a slab, with steel casement windows and the SNI on the opposite
side of the house from the garage. Oh yeah, when the exterior walls are
block or slump block the top window lintel is 1/4" steel L beam.

Oh..yeah..ceramic tile floors.

Can't get much harder that that!




"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> powercat@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Yes I'm probably an idiot but (1) when I renovated I saw the garbage a
>> sizeable local monitoring company had previously installed and I wanted
>> top shelf stuff and
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>>(2) I wanted hardwire that was going to be a real
>> pain in the rump because of house layout and nobody really wanted to do
>> it.
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> I can imagine that some houses might be difficult but I've never seen a
> house that was "impossible" to hardwire. I live in the Northeast so
> frame houses are what is popular here. I hear that there are some new
> construction methods using foam or concrete which could probably be
> prewired, but after market alarm systems would have to be wireless.
> Transmission strength could be a problem through concrete too.  I can
> also imagine that as radiant heating becomes more popular, drilling
> will become riskier.
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>>(3) I have the Andersen windows that installers hate and
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> Which Andersens would that be?  The only ones that I don't like are the
> big wooden sliders ..... only because I don't like the way I have to
> install the contacts.  All the rest are pretty easy.
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>>(4) I
>> had access to a commercial installer who would moonlight the panel
>> install if needed.  Oh and my in-law is a retired electrical type who
>> supervised the wiring placement like a Marine drill sargeant (best part
>> of all).
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>> My big mistake was letting the equipment reseller sell me service
>> before the above was all complete.  Oh well lessons learned.
>>
>> All I am doing currently is adding a siren in the attic.  It seems
>> happy now.
>>
>> Thanks and best wishes to all of you -- you seem to be all over North
>> America.
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> Yep, from Ca AZ TX LA MD Fl NY Canada and probably a few more that I've
> missed. Every once in awhile someone from England, Germany, Japan Italy
> and other countries too .. drops in.
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