Re: System recommendations

["Robert L Bass" <Sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jim" wrote:
>
> In my area, many people request wireless .... simply because it's a cleaner
> ( no drilling or molding removal) installation.

That's often the perception though not always the reality.  I remember a job
we did in Farmington, VT, many years ago.  My best guy, Lenny, was on it along
with my oldest son.  The home was large and expensive, located across the
street from Mike Tyson's house.

The second day in the lady called and asked me to have my technician speak to
her about where the wires would be run before he did the living room windows.
The two-story house was old, with plaster over wood lath in the walls and over
that miserable "expanded metal" in the ceilings.  The basement ceiling was
finished beneath the living room.

I called Lenny that evening to ask him to speak with the client before wiring
the living room.  He said, "They're done."  He had wired behind the recessed
radiators, down to the ceiling below.  There he had removed several ceiling
can lights to gain access and fished all the wires across.  There wasn't so
much as a smudge in the living room and no sign that he'd done anything to the
basement ceiling.  :^)

> I think also because the "lick and sticks" have made it more popular ....
> too.

I think that's the main reason.  Other than taking bids from those guys, most
customers still don't seem to have any preferences.  That even shows up with
my DIY clients.  Most order hard-wired systems.  I haven't tallied it up but
if I had to guess I'd estimate 1 in 4 go with wireless.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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