Re: cleaner wiring solution needed

["R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since you're asking for comments, I'll just say that would be the wrong
thing to do. If you're being paid outright for the prewire, then whether you
get the follow on alarm system should not really be part of the equation.
Nor should you do anything in the prewire procedure that would limit other
companys abilities to come in to bid. If you prewired in such a way that you
limit the type of alarm system that must be put in, then I'd also say that
is not giving the builder client what he is paying for. Nor for that matter,
the end user homeowner....

You asked...my 2 cents...

RHC

"Crash Gordon®" <NONE@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
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> "Crash Gordon®" <NONE@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Yah...Westec did that here too...man their wire costs musta been high.
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> 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??"
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> 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.
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