The Fire Alarm Experts strike again?

We lost a bid for a commercial deal (Subway Deli/Carvel) to ADT but the reason why had me laughing. The owner chose ADT because I refused to match their offer of installing a Vista20 panel, 2 doors, 1 motion, 1 glassbreak, and a HEAT detector. I offered any other device not related to fire but no dice. The owner was deadset on getting a "FIRE alarm system" thrown in, and since ADT was the only one willing to do it they were choosing ADT. This is in NYC mind you.

Nick Markowitz wrote:

I walk away from ones like that a lot. Same for 6000 sq ft homes that call for at least 8 smokes and the client only wants one to qualify for the insurance discount...nope sorry you buy what's called for or no smokes at all.

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What makes this worse this was a full commercail fire system they used phone wire on.

Yeah, I get that sometimes. 3500 sq. ft. two-story house, and is tossing in a smoke detector. One. Uno. Great.

What does NYC have to do with it? Try getting a fire alarm system approved in Carlsbad. Then talk to me about your pussy NYC regs. Hah. js

Yup. I just lost one in Coronado last month cuz the owner wanted heats in the kitchen and garage. No smokes. He didn't like the way they looked.

It was a block from the nicest beach in town too. Shit. js

I hate when companies run one deuce to one AC electric smoke and the client wants his AC smokes interconnected to the alarm system...I won't do it period.

Funny you you say that. Check out the thread(s) in CHA about this.

Ditto!

And you said you'd have to check on a few things and "get back to me".

And I have not run into the fire marshal yet.

You're welcome.

-G

Local 3? We tell unions to piss up a rope. The only Union I do business with is the 76 station down the block. Hey, local 3: blow me.

That's Carlsburg. (Yech) js

If you actually read what I said you'd see that although it's *not* against code to do so, it's simply not something I'd recommend anyone actually do. Unfortunately when I get into something like this with Robert the actual point gets missed a lot of times.