Got a grinder? Time to make a new door :)

I had an 85 Cadillac that was in mint condition. I loved that car. It had some weird electrical problem where it would just shut off on me. Sometimes it would happen 10 times in one day and sometimes i could go months without it happening. Each time i would take it to the shop they would call me an hour later and say its running and they dont know why. I finally called a wrecker to come and get it because i needed closure and i moved on :).

Took down a 10 year old Sharpvision plasma and replaced with a 50" Elite.

LOOK AT THIS [email protected] BRACKET!!!!!



To put it in perspective, here it is leaned against my 4 foot ladder....



Only had 10 lags in it...  

I pulled a bunch of dusty, dirty old crap out of a wiring closet for a small commercial job.

Will be rewiring next week for gigabit Ethernet & VoIP...

Before & After
 

Just curious...

Is anyone form the Montreal area here?

I'm a CI from Montreal. I guess you already figured that out!

Practically ripped the ladder rack off my van today.  Drove up to the "circle" in front of a customer's house, was trying to avoid the grass when I hear "BAM!!! BAM!!!! BANG!!!"  Hit a low overhanging branch. 

The middle rack was completely off and was hanging from the rubber strap going through the ladders, the back one was laying down and pointed backwards 90 degrees, and one side of the front was bent and loose.  Only the passenger side clamp was holding the whole thing in place - with an 8 foot, 12 foot, and 24 foot ladder on top.

After I finished the service call I parked in a snow drift under a street light and remounted the whole damn thing.  The tree had one minor scrape on it...

It's a rack similar to this:

Had a client call me up and say that we wanted to do a bunch of the stuff that we couldn't do last year with his project. I then told him it was around $25k worth, but since the project has now been half done, it will change slightly. He then said, well not quite that much and gave me the go ahead to design $12,700 worth of upgrades and improvements to his system. We'll weed out from the $25k that he didn't do, what he really wants. They live in the house now and things have changed.

Put together a sweet little 5.1 upgrade proposal for an existing client.
* Totem Tribe InWall LCR for left and right
* Totem Tribe I Center 
* Totem Mask 6.5" In-walls for surrounds
* Denon 3310
* Custom Cabinet rack

Working on squeezing a basic Prodigy controller into the system. Normally every system has some type of control solution, but they've had 5 remotes for years and would rather have the performance upgrades. We'll see.

Setup a meeting with another existing client that is starting some remodel work which will require us to take down the system, rewire it all, plus probably add some DA.

Also got a call on a small commerical job that we are wiring the data and phone for, informed me that there were some notes missing on the plans that I had. Said that 3 of the lcoations that were wired each for 1data+1phone, actually needed 8 of each, one other location, also wired for 1+1, needs 6 of each and one other location that was shown needs a total of 5 of each. For a GRAND total of 62 more lines to be run. Also they are now asking us to do the trim out and put in a basic knockdown patch panel for the data.

Business has been picking up a little. Although one very large job that would have been $50k-$100k (depending on how much they decided to do now) has cut back to ONLY installing TV's with basic cable box's kept locally for now. =( this is a bummer. They are hoping to at least get the 5.1 and 7.2 zones with central rack and control in maybe this summer, depending on how their business' do.

Good on ya! I just finished a couple installs - one with 3 x Tribe III's, and another with 2 x Tribe II's and 1 x Tribe III (center). They really do rock, and the customers are very happy with them. They've become my defacto go-to speakers for my systems.

This system is 12 zones of audio, 3 custom pop up cabinets (Auton), Panasonic phone system, couple K4's, Couple T2C's, rack, etc. Here are a few of the pics. Finished about a month ago.

Pio Elite / Dist Video / T2C




LCD on articulating arm in a back box on a mirror wall




Picture of drywall. Actually, Sonance Invisible speakers. 3 Zones of these.





One of three pop up TVs

How did you like installing the Sonance Invisibles?  I've been pushing those things to everybody I talk to, I can't manage to get someone to bite.  Maybe someday.

Were they east to install?, Which model did you use?  Did you put them in the Ceiling or walls?

It looks like you did a really nice job.  So if the customer didn't tell you. I am.

I lived there for 15 years, what a shit hole ( IMO :D )

I spent all day screwing around with a replacement processor only to find out it was bad and the supposedly bad processor is good.

Tomorrow i get to do todays work.

Went to a customers house last week to swap out a 61" Sony DLP with a new one POS Mitsubishi. (We didn't sell it)  customer says he had a TV guy come out and the TV is not able to be fixed.  He asks us to take it with us (No problem).  Never dealt with the guy before.  We get there and just unplug everything from the back of the TV, walk it right out to the van.

Go back in hook everything up to the new TV.

Drive to my favorite TV/Electronics repair shop and drop it off.  Tell my son, "If it doesn't cost too much to fix we'll take it downstairs for your video games."
 
Poor kid has to sit on top of a damn 20" TV right now.

Bench Technician calls me today and says "Dude, there's nothing wrong with this TV.  Everything works"

I think I'm about to become a very popular dad.

 

Nice!
You will be the best dad in the world for a while!