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Re: Why?



How's about Large Office job- all of the sudden I'm getting loss of
supervision on a dozen E/E Doors- "something is wrong with the
alarm......." Are you doing any construction? NO...... Only to
investigate the jobsite and find EVERY Door in the dumpster complete
with magnet attached!LOL



JoeRaisin wrote:
> Had one a few weeks ago, the builder had removed the door (which was
> already contacted) and then put it back.  I have no idea why.
>
> When I got there I found an empty hole in the door jamb.  The same thing
> had happened to the front door but in that case I had my wire pulled
> through the hole, so I figured that the wire was just not pulled through.
>
> trying to fish it out, I found that I only had an inch or so directly
> above my hole - I guessed they had shifted the door since when a door is
> contacted during a prewire I drill straight up from the jamb through the
> rough opening.
>
> I had the trim carpenter pull the trim, telling him, "I could do it...
> But I'm not very good at it." - he insisted that he do it ;).
>
> So he was the one who splintered up the faux-log door trim that screwed
> into place with those tiny-head finish screws that never come back out.
>
> Apparently, they had carefully removed the 3/8 inch contact from the
> door jamb, reconnected wires and placed the switch in the rough opening
> for safe-keeping.  I didn't have enough room to pull the switch down so
> I had to chisel it out sideways.
>
> Loads of fun...
>
>
>
>


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