Re: Napco

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why? Because most of them don't care, they just want to sell the
house...it's the buyer's problem later. Some builders are of the mindset;
oh, you can just add a wireless system later...or that a few doors and a
motion detector are enough - gee where did that come from? From years of the
biggies creating that illusion by advertising and give-away systems - that's
how. Our industry fucking our own industry.



"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| 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.
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