Re: lack of support at Home Technology Store

["Bob Worthy" <securinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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.
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> Oh..yeah..ceramic tile floors.
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> Can't get much harder that that!

Until you get the second floor deck poured concrete and the interior studs
are all metal as well. Welcome to S. Florida.
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> "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.
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> >> All I am doing currently is adding a siren in the attic.  It seems
> >> happy now.
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> >> 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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