I haven't been able to get anything done on either of my trucks lately. About 4 weeks ago, I got a call from one of my customers that he was moving his office to another suite in the building and wanted me to get things ready for him. That afternoon, another customer in the same building said they were going to buy customer A's old suite.

I get customer A's office started. I am redoing all the network and phone wiring. While I am working, the electrician comes in and is completely clueless how to pull wiring in an existing building. I spend a couple days helping him get that done. Customer A then says he wants me to take over as his IT, so I then am responsible for moving and setting up all his computers. That then grew into helping move furniture between the offices. Just when I think it is over, he wanted me to come in and add some more phone lines and setup the firewall.

I finally get done and just start to catch my breath when customer B calls me. He has closed on customer A's old office. He wants me to get all the network operational and he wants it tied into the other 2 offices he has. I get that done, then he wants security camera's. I get that done then he wants TV's added into his conference rooms and setup to a computer for meetings.

I really should have made more money on all this, but these are both good customers so I cut them a pretty good deal. I put new tires on the suburban then invested all the rest back into the business. Customer A's system has 40 Network drops. Customer B's offices now have 130 network drops.

Took some pictures to share for those that aren't on facebook.

This was the rack I put in customer A's office. Everything is in full view so I tried to make it pretty. I actually pulled it all back out a couple days later and did it over again to make it as neat and clean as possible.



This is customer B's small conference room with a 60 inch plasma



Customer B's large conference room with a 47 inch LCD





Been a lot of long hours. I was able to employee 3 friends that needed money throughout the job. I spent the remainder of the money for new inventory for our store/shop. Feels pretty good to finally be done as of tonight.

Let me know what you think.

 

Looks like you take pride in your work. Good job!

 

Thanks! I really try. Once upon a time I hurried through everything, but as of late, I really slow down and take my time. The little extra time makes everything so much nicer in the end.

If you look at the pictures, you will notice many of the plugs on the walls aren't straight. They paid some $350,000 to have the building wired, and that is how the guys installed them. What is even crazier, is they put it in before the walls went up and everything is attached to metal studs.

The white 6 gang box I installed, however, there was equipment below it at that time and it had to be placed there.

 

looks like we do the same thing for extra money, nice job, a ALOT of these instalations i see are a mess :p u did a pretty clean one!!

 

Thats a lot of skills wrapped into one project. I used to do IT and networking back in the day, and people really do rush through stuff. Good to know some people in the industry still care about more than just dollars and minutes.

 

I did my first network wiring job when I was 12 years old. It was a COAX 10-base-T system. I thought it was really cool when everything was done and worked. What was even cooler to me, was when the maintainance guy cut one of the wires and I fixed it. Something about tracing it all down and figuring it out was just cool to me.

I worked briefly for an electrical company that ONLY did existing construction. It was a major learning curve for me, but I learned a lot about pulling wiring around a building. Unfortunately, do to physical problems I was born with, my body simply won't let me do it for a living.

The low voltage side jobs give me that thrill of seeing the job done, and seeing a satisfied customer, without the extreme physical load that a normal electrician sees.

Anymore I do phone, data, and home theater/entertainment related. I can do more, but it just doesn't interest me as much.

 

This is a job I did 2 years ago. It was for the city. They got the time line confused, I was supposed to get in before the drywall was hung, but nobody called us. They called me frantic asking if I could get it done in 2 days. I had it done in 1 day. 48 drops, color coded wiring, and fully mapped/tested. If you notice the folder behind the conduit, it is a labeled drawing of the wiring explaining exactly where every wire goes. The phone guy was floored, he had never seen anyone take the time to do it. He said it took him about 4 hours to get his part done, and he didn't have to fix anything..

This job wasn't as exciting to me because of how it look, but because of how it looked after being done start to finish is roughly 7 hours.



The blue wire was temporary to setup the new phone system.






These high connections are for all the plotters and printers the engineers use. This whole room was devoted to just printing devices.