My guess is, with snow and salted roads, you won't be able to drive it from about November to April.

That would be correct!

We made some progress in our demo theater room this week. - Paint, Lighting, carpet, seating and some av...still waiting to install our screen and SONY 350ES projector...but were getting closer to being open which is very exciting as I get to see my vision for the space come together.

EastsideAV - Any acoustic treatments planned? Fabric walls?

Space looks gorgeous. I would buy that, really clean lines, my style. I'd go big on the LCRs, though. Maybe some floor-standing speakers planned, for A/B comparison?

+1.

I also like the fact that everything is dark. I hate the standard red and gold theaters. I hate anything that reflects light to the point of be annoying. The projector makes white trim look like runway lights.

The goal is to be able to show value based upgrades.

Right now the only acoustic panels onsite are the 2 4'x4' Kinetics Starcoustic Panels which will be mounted to the ceiling. Additional treatments for the side and back walls are planned (but may not be installed for a while based on available cash flow), But in the interim I have some custom art that will be going into the side wall niche's.

The long term plan is to add a Crown 8 channel DSP Amp and use BSS processing/switching between up to 4 pairs of Front L/R speakers (most likely KEF Q900's + Q600c will be the first pair added). The main power source for the time being will be a Yamaha RXA3050 (plus secondary amp) to be able to run a 7.2.4 atmos system using Sonacne VP82's with a pair of Sunfire XT12 subs. Projector to be mounted is a SONY 350ES, and screen will most likely be either a 120" SI or Dalite JKP acoustically transparent screen. Seating currently is Salamander AV basics and Cabinet is a Salamder Chameleon, there will eventually be a second row of seating (most likely bar height counter to match our kitchen space and accommodate 6 bar stools so we can seat 10 comfortably.

Total cost to turn the room from a 13x16 shell to this is about 10k before AV (Framing and Drywall was 1800, tape/mud/prep and paint was 3000, Electrical including fixtures 2500, and carpet with heavy duty pad was 2100). Total room with seating/AV/Install etc. should run about 40k for a client.
...and hopefully we'll sell quite a few packages (between 10-50k) by being able to show what can be done.

Haven't posted here in a while....spent all of last week 1,100 miles from our shop doing an upfit in Texas. The labor was quoted based mostly on a dozen pictures the homeowner sent us. We underestimated so I ended up working a couple 12+ hour days, but I finished the job except for a little programming that can be done remotely. I pulled out a B&K component video matrix and replaced that with the new Leaf 10x10 4K piece. Everything worked perfectly and the client seems like he'd like to have us come back out for more upgrades in the future.

We start the biggest job in our company history this week...$142K has been approved so far.

I spent this afternoon recovering from leading a Cub Scout camping trip. 26 people counting parents. And to top it off, BSA has a strict no alcohol rule on all scout events. Thank god that's over until next year

Came in behind another dealer on a good-sized C4 project. 10 zones of distributed video. Homeowner wanted his cable box hidden as a source in Navigator, but there was programming in place that allowed him to press the blue button on a hadheld remote once the on-screen navigator was called up, which would access his cable box. Simple and slick.

However, there is a custom button which shows up on every interface in the whole house that allows users to select from several sources, INCLUDING HIS CABLE BOX, to be played in all 10 video zones!!!

Surprise, surprise.


I drove to the beach once again.


The weather is freaking great! I believe I'll pop a cork, and head down to the oceans edge...

well dont trip and fall in you sorry son of a bitch!!!!!!!!!!! im drowning in work!

Fired my helper today.
Had him 4 weeks.
He had "3 years experience" working as / with an electrician.
Hired him at xx/hr.
After 2 weeks wanted a raise. I asked why he thought he was worth it, just for showing up? He basically said yes. He wanted xxx/hr.
I gave him the raise only because I had work to get done but i've been kind of fuming about it until today.
I sent him to jobsite earlier than me so I could catch up on stuff. I get there and he did in 3 hours what should have been done in 30 minutes tops.
He had to put in 3 pieces of electrical conduit (total of about 7 feet) with an lb box and put a mount for a camera on the wall with an extension arm.
I get there and the extension arm is backwards and he can't figure out how he's going to mount the camera to it.
This is after I already explained to him on the phone how it needs to be.

#sick,tired and disgusted

lemme guess - was he under 25?

Exactly.
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You got to mix your canteen better son!