Re: How much effort should I put to hard-wire?

[Frank Olson <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert L Bass wrote:

>
> Sorry to have offended you by disagreeing with you.  It's
> unfortunate that you are unable to accept disagreement without
> resorting to such childish outbursts.

You were doing fine until the second sentence.


>
> I don't mind if you can't come up with a reasonable counterpoint
> other than the above, but perhaps you can at least try to explain
> how shortages in WWII (1939 to 1945) and the great depression
> (which started in 1929) affected construction in 1920.
>
> Without benefit of your vast knowledge of history, we can only
> assume that the lumber market anticipated the troubles to come
> and dried up years in advance.  Boggles the mind, eh?
>
> To the point, if you want to try to dissuade people from DIY, I
> can understand your motive.

Reading "between the lines" again, are we??  Why is it that you see
people "against DIY" when all I see is someone with experience telling a
prospective DIY that it's better (in this instance) to employ someone
with some knowledge and experience to run wires in a house that could
easily present some unusual challenges?


> You make a living installing alarms.
> No problem.  I advocate DIY and I make a living catering to
> DIYers via my online alarm system store.

You mean your *four* online alarm stores, don't you?


> It's natural that I
> want to explain how to do this sort of thing, just as it is
> natural that you want to make people believe that doing so is
> dangerous / impossible / against the law / whatever.

I didn't see him making any such suggestion.  "Them's your words, pardna".


>
> I would suggest though that you stick to facts.  Try not to make
> up stories or at least try to use ones that aren't so silly.

Bwhahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!  Pot, Kettle, Black!!


> It
> doesn't make you sound knowledgeable when you try to associate
> lumber shortages in WWII with construction issues in homes that
> were built a generation *before* WWII.  It just sounds like
> you're trying *very* hard to prove an unprovable argument, to
> wit, that there's some sort of "art" to installing alarms.  There
> isn't.

You truly are a maroon, aren't you Bass?


>
> This isn't rocket science.  It's not a profession like medicine
> or engineering.  It's a blue collar trade requiring little or no
> education.  Your tirade above only serves to prove the point.

And yours proves nothing more than your own agenda in this group.
"Stanley" provided some very sound advice.  You offered nothing but
nonsense (your use of a 1/2" "feeler bit" was even worse than the
"splice in the attic")...  I don't know of *any* installer that would
drill a pilot hole with a 1/2" bit...  That's a lot like using a backhoe
to dig your window box...