Re: cleaner wiring solution needed

["alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Crash Gordon® wrote:
> Addressable systems..brings up a point I've wrestled with on and off
> for years.
>
> Should I prewire for addressable systems to keep the inexperienced
> down&dirty trunk slammers from lowballing trim outs on my prewires?
>
> Anybody?
>
>
> "Frank Olson" <feolson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%NB%d.750559$8l.652685@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> "Crash Gordon®" <NONE@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:0NA%d.5$Hp3.469@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Yah...Westec did that here too...man their wire costs musta been
>> high.
>>
>>
>>
>> Westec Edmonton was a darn good outfit.  Mostly high end, high
>> visibility residential.  I recall one of their sales guys getting
>> really upset with the company I was working for there.  We'd
>> switched to Ademco products when ADI opened their branch in Edmonton
>> and started installing Vista 40's almost exclusively.  We'd home-run
>> everything in an area of one of these "monster" houses (front upper,
>> back upper, front lower, and back lower) to expanders in a
>> convenient closet.  When Westec took over one of our pre-wires,
>> well, golly gosh darn, the only points that were home run to the
>> actual control unit were in the basement (+ the keypads).  "What?" I
>> asked.  "You mean you've never heard of an addressable system??"
>>
>> The Edmonton franchise holders sold the whole kit and kaboodle to
>> ADT in around 1986/87.  They walked away with a really nice "pile"
>> of change... That's when more than just the name went into the
>> toilet.  ADT was selling the $395 systems then and their residential
>> service sucked.  They couldn't obtain parts for the Westec panels
>> from California and the customers with these systems wound up
>> bailing on them big time.

No, if they get the job they'll just convince the homeowner to use wireless
because your pre-wire is defective.
js