This didn't happen today, in fact it happened nearly six months ago. I realised working for myself doing residential A/V wasn't paying the bills like it used to and came to the conclusion it was time to get a job. After a lot of emails and applications I ended up with a commercial Electrical, Data and A/V company. I'm now on my second project and thoroughly enjoying myself. I will get some photos over the next few weeks and post them up.

Current project is Creston DM and the other job our company is working on in the same highrise is AMX DVX/DGX.

It's nice to go home at the end of the day and be done with it.. :) I am almost there.

Good going! Congrats. I think there is a paradigm shift happening where the small guys will be increasingly placed at a disadvantage to get the decent projects out there. I did some service work recently for an old client, and I forgot how, at times it is not fun crawling around & trying to figure stuff out on your own!

Awesome! Where can i get one? I want to tattoo it on my back so i can show it to people every time i hear "its all going wireless".

I saw some guys who do work that cheap. When i was in New orleans i watched brinks or adt or one of those moron outfits destroy the customers home. 20 year old kid on his cell phone (pinned between face and shoulder the whole time) walking around with a flexibit. He just kept popping holes in the windows and doors until he would finally break thru to the crawl space. What did he do about the dozen unused holes? Nothing.

CMA, yes it is nice going home at the end of the day and not thinking about work. Unfortunately, after 3 weeks of pulling data (waiting for the A/V spec to be finalised) I was dreaming about pulling data. Not good!

Mr Stanley, your exactly right. Clients want a personal experience and want someone they know and trust to be responsible for their project, but they also want to deal with a known name and they want rock bottom pricing. Too hard.

I stopped back at the pizza place to see the finished install. It turned out like everyone expected. Hanging power cable and source cables disappearing into the ceiling. I'd rather see the power cable hang like this than find out he ran an extension cable through the wall/ceiling.

Very nice indeed =)

Paul, what's the cable hanging down from the TV, and did you pull on it?

Nice!

He obviously has some sort of cutting tool...that he used to destroy their ceiling tile. How about oh i dunno...using it to cut a hole in the wall behind the TV and above the ceiling tiles so that he could hide the LV cables?

Probably a good thing that he didnt think about that or he would have gotten the bright idea to pull the power cord in the wall and then ran a 100' extension cord across the ceiling.

As ridiculous as this sound I wold introduce myself to the owner and explain the crappy job and offer to do it right ( For a Fee of course )...

Even if it's not a lot of money people need to learn that is not a proper install. If you point it out/fix it they wont allow it next time.

I'm pretty sure that's the power cable, but I didn't want to get too close in case it fell off the wall.

 I think someone mentioned earlier in the thread that the owner probably got exactly what he wanted for the price he wanted to pay.

None of us would ever do an install like this, but I doubt the owner was willing to pay what it would take to do it right.  A proper installation with quality mount, electrical outlet installed by licensed electrician and hidden low-volt would cost as much as the TV.

A bit of info from Wiki if your interested.

The Marconi Company published the first issue of the journal The Marconigraph In April 1911. It was the first journal written especially for wireless communication and circulated largely among engineers and operators.

In 1913 the name was changed to The Wireless World and in April the first issue was sold on news-stands.

From April 1922 it was known as The Radio Review. This journal was first published October 1919 and ended as part of The Wireless World.

The title was changed in September 1984 to Electronics and Wireless World, and later to Electronics World.

I bet it was the owner or a cousin that WAS installing it. Telling him the installer sucked might not go over so well.