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Remember when you had to run a new wire for every single sensor?
I was doing a job at a big old house in Savannah about 8 years ago. The owner wanted a full system but the place was built in the 1920s with plaster walls everywhere. We were looking at days of fishing wire and making huge messes. My boss at the time brought over this new wireless door contact, a DSC model I think. I was sure it would fail in a month. We put it on the front door, a solid oak monster, and it just worked. That one job changed how I saw the whole trade. Now I carry a box of those things and a roll of double-sided tape on every call. It saves so much time and the customer's walls stay clean. What's the oldest house you've wired where you had to go mostly wireless?
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emma_wood7mo ago
Plaster walls are the worst, they just eat drill bits. I had a similar place, a Victorian with those old horsehair plaster ceilings that crumble if you look at them wrong. We ended up using almost all wireless sensors, except for the main panel power. The funny part was the homeowner freaked out about batteries, like we were going to hide a hundred little time bombs in his walls. Had to explain the low-battery beep for a solid twenty minutes.
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