Re: Remote construction site monitoring.

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

yep...right now copper plumbing is a hot item...they tear it right outta the
walls.


"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1154891666.190448.238660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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| Crash Gordon wrote:
| > Don't write the spec, let the security companies design and propose.
| >
| > I used to have a couple of mobile units that we'd lease out...they ain't
| > cheap to build (although I've seen a few lately that look like they are
| > pretty cool) - but, we built ours. They worked fine but very expensive
to
| > upkeep and repair after the vandals used them for target practice.
| >
| > I go through this same scenario about every few months with local
builders,
| > give them the pros/cons and then the price...thats when they barf. I
won't
| > even talk to them anymore, it's a waste of time designing and proposing
| > something they don't want to pay for.
| >
|
| I had the very same experience. There was a rash of stealing (believe
| it or not)  oil burners (for you winter challenged folk, that's a whole
| house heating unit) . Cut them right out or the house plumbing and
| wiring and carry them off.)
|
| This kind of security system is very expensive to put together. The
| builders don't want to pay that kind of money,  with only possibly fair
| to middling results  .... even to save a $2000.00 Jacozzi.  Just think
| about it from a power supply standpoint alone. The size of the battery
| necessary to run this package is supprisingly large. Here's some of the
| things that can happen. After the "newness" wears off, Where there's no
| available power to the job, they'll forget to recharge the power pack
| and when it's needed, it will have been forgotten about for a week or
| more. Even if there's power on the site, the unit will have to be moved
| for various reason by one trade or another. The motion detector will be
| blocked. The main unit will be unplugged and allowed to discharge it's
| back up power supply.  It will be taken down by the framers, the
| electricians, the insulators, the drywallers and put in a closet
| someplace and no one will think about it until after someone has
| vandalized the place. Even if it IS running when someone breaks in, if
| they know that it's there, (because they're on the job or someone on
| the job gave them the information) they'll simply cover their faces.
| They'll find the unit and take it or destroy it. If they don't know
| it's there, you'll have the rare pleasure of watching complete
| strangers, whom no one will ever be able to identify,  vandalize and
| steal your stuff.
|
| Hire a guard or dogs or both. But ..... even they present problems. The
| guard will fall asleep and you'll have to clean up after the dogs.
|
| Put your money to better use. Lock up your tools in a quality, heavy
| duty construction lock box and use a case hardened chain and lock
| wrapped around the biggest tree on the lot. Barricade the doors and
| windows, Make sure anything of value is installed and not left standing
| over night,  for easy removal and hope for the best.
|
| I've been in this industry for about 36 years and builders have been
| looking for this magic bullet, for all these years. Believe me when I
| say,  if there were anything on the market that worked, and was
| reasonably priced, you wouldn't have had to come here to ask about it.
| Every builder would be already using it.
|