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Hardwired vs. wireless sensors in a 1920s brick building - wireless won by a mile
Had a job last month at an old church turned office space downtown. Thick brick walls everywhere. Ran a hardwired zone to the back storage room, took me almost 2 hours just fishing through the conduit. Switched to a wireless Honeywell sensor for the next 3 zones, had each one paired and tested in under 15 minutes. Range was solid even through the masonry. Never going back to hardwire in old builds like that. Anyone else find wireless saving your back on retrofit jobs?
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emery_young135d agoMost Upvoted
The whole "wireless vs hardwired" thing is exactly like how I've stopped trying to fix old house plumbing myself - sometimes the old method just doesn't work anymore and you gotta accept the new way. My neighbor spent all weekend running new coax cable through his 1920s attic and ended up snapping two fish tapes before giving up. Wireless tech is basically the modern equivalent of realizing you can just order a pizza instead of spending hours making dough from scratch.
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