Re: cleaner wiring solution needed (resend)

[Crash Gordon® <NONE@xxxxxxxx>]

I do trades with clients in various businesses...one 4th of July my =
upstairs air handler went out, it got to be 101 upstairs where the =
bedrooms are. Of course the wife is screaming at me to get someone =
out...nah lets just sleep downstairs until after the holiday or they're =
gonna charge us up the wazzooo. After 15 hours of her and the kids =
ragging I called my "friend/client's" airconditioning guys. Yeah we can =
come out it's 350.00 for the motor AND 350.00 for the service on the =
holiday. Holy fucking shit!....for a 50$ fan motor? I ended up racing =
over to the one commericial electric house that was opened on a saturday =
bought the motor for 54.00 bucks and put it in myself. I didn't want to =
because the compressor unit was outside in the sun ...but to save  =
650.00 bucks I had to sweat a little.=20

What pisses me off is these guys can get this kind of money !! and our =
alarm clients piss and moan when we charge 85.00 and hour to go up in a =
dirty dusty HOT attic in the summer (over 150 degrees in attics here)

Which reminds me he hasn't paid for *last* quarter's =
monitoring...sheesh.


"alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message =
news:ke40e.386$Mt5.107@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Jackcsg wrote:
> > Well hell just look at the world around us. If it isn't plastic, or
> > you can't buy it at Wal-Mart....
> > I swear, I think 90% of the world suffers from A.D.D., or A.A.D.D.
> >
> > I went to an office today to rough in two computer/phone drops today
> > into a small office of a General Contractor customer of mine, who
> > naturally through poor planning called me late yesterday afternoon,
> > and needed it done by noon today. Uggh. So I arrived to find this
> > chicken shack built 8 by 12 foot office they built (for the owner of
> > the company) off their existing office (warehouse type building). =
The
> > owner points to two plastic boxes on adjacent walls were the wires
> > need to go (no big deal). I looked at some of the electrical wiring,
> > and just shook my head. I said to the owner, "You can't bury an
> > electrical splice box in the wall....it's against code". She =
replied,
> > "look around....nothing is up to code around here". I thought to
> > myself....."why would I expect a General Contractor, especially one
> > that does 6 million a year, to be observant to any codes.....". =
Uggh.
> > Then in walks one of the company Superintendents, all to happy to
> > point out that he wired it, and that he drilled the holes out bigger
> > so I could just run my voice and data lines right along with his
> > electric in the same hole. I told him, "not only is it against code,
> > but you'd have major Electrical Interference with doing it that =
way".
> > I told him thanks, and that I would just drill my own holes....About
> > an hour later, I hand the $110.00 dollar bill to the owner of the
> > company. She made a face like she was trying to pass a peach pit, =
and
> > said "would it have been any cheaper if I just had you drop off the
> > wire? My guys could have done what you did for a fraction of the
> > cost".
>=20
> My question would have been, "Why in the world did you call me if your =
guys
> could do it for a fraction of the cost?"
> js
>=20
>