2008_03_20 Security system and Intercom system wiring being done

The security alarm company was out to do the wiring before the log siding gets put on the inside walls and covers everything up. The man who works for the alarm company also has his own business and one of the things he does is to install intercom systems. He also does home theater systems, but I'm going to use the geek squad at Best Buy to do that since I just spent a fortune there yesterday buying a flat screen LCD TV, a Blue-Ray DVD player, a home theater receiver and 6 speakers. They'll set everything up too and the builder can do all the wiring and I may get Clay to help mount the TV on the wall. Anyway, I'm using the security guy to do only the security and the intercom.

Below is a picture showing the rough in for the intercom's main station. It's just outside the kitchen on the wall outside the foyer bathroom.



The picture below is of the conduit carrying the wires to the electrical box on the ceiling of the balcony. If I had known that we were going to want lights in the middle of the ceiling there instead of on the wall the builder would have hidden the wires on top of the beam, but this way allows us to do that without having to tear up the roof!




We plan to have the builder do the same thing for the light on the porch outside the dining room since we may someday want to put a ceiling fan out there and those don't tend to work well when mounted on a wall.



Here are Kedrick (on the right) and Corey (on the left) putting in wires for the security system.

Kedrick is using a flexible drill bit to try to drill into the log and curve the hole over to come out next to the door jam inside. He missed though! So, now we have a door jam with a 3/8 inch hole in it. I'll need to get Steve to fix that and it'll need to be painted over!

The intercom system will let us play radio, etc in many of the rooms, out on the screened porch, and down in the workshop in the basement in addition to the normal intercom function, doorbell, etc.

Below you can see the black wire that is the antennae. It is about 30 feet long or so and then it splits into 2 wires that he is spreading out some more.