Re: Napco

["Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

Crash Gordon wrote:
> Really. I'm just the opposite!...I'd much rather deal with loyal friendly
> (and pay on time) homeowners...one on one...mostly custom homes. Dumped most
> of my big commercial stuff, kept only the ones that are also homeowners of
> mine.
>
>
Same thing I did a number of years ago. After years of commercial work
that was laborious drudgery, without even a thank you, the residential
market has more of a challange as far as installation skills and
techniques. I enjoy the level of homes that I do now. Presently doing a
$3.5 million 7500 sqft home, on seven acre wooded property with lakes
and Grecian gardens that one of my existing clients just bought.  Was a
spec house, so it's all closed up already and they want a full system.
Great! What a challange to have jobs like that.

Don't understand a builder who'd build a house of that caliber with
only doors and two motion detectors ..... both placed in the wrong
spot. Keypad wire, poking out through the wainscoat panel in a 4 inch
space beteen a light switch and the end of the wall. Contact wire for
garage entry door is sticking out of the wall 2 feet away from the
door. Bedroom key pad wire was brought to the attic but wasn't stapled
there, so it was hanging out of neat little hole in the ceiling the
drywallers had made for it in the closet. The builder had paid $1200.00
to prewire 6 doors, two keypads, two motion detectors, one inside
speaker. No fire. One 12 conductor between attic and basement. And all
just short drops that have to be spliced to be wired back to the panel.
 No home runs to a designated main panel area. Told him I would do the
same thing for $900.00 with home runs. And I thought that was high. No
Cat5. Five TV jacks. Five telephone jacks. Duhhhhh! Unbelieveable!

But that's the challange, to take a bad job and make a diamond out of
it.