That Tuesday where every panel I wired had a short circuit nightmare

Last week was brutal. Tuesday specifically I had three service calls back to back. First house the guy had his dog chewed through the zone wiring in the attic. Second call was a brand new Vista panel that kept giving me trouble codes on the transformer. Third one was a Honeywell keypad that just would not sync no matter what I tried. I ended up driving 45 minutes back to the shop for a replacement board only to realize the original one was fine and it was a bad tamper switch on the door sensor. Whole day from 7am to 7pm and I walked away with maybe $150 after parts and gas. Anyone else have a day where you just felt like the universe was testing your patience with alarm systems?

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john_cooper20d ago

Hold up, is a bad Tuesday in the alarm game really the same as the universe testing your patience? I mean, I had a client last month who wanted me to redo their entire website because they didn't like the shade of blue I used on a button. That's a test. @the_charlie might be onto something about the rates, but three service calls and a 45-minute drive sounds like a standard Tuesday, not a nightmare.

emery1920d ago

$150 for a 12 hour day with three service calls? That's brutal, man.

the_charlie20d ago

Saw a post the other day from a guy who does HVAC work in the south saying $150 is basically just covering his gas and lunch now. @emery19 is right, that rate feels like it's stuck in 2019 or something. Three separate stops in one day alone eats up so much time just driving between them. I've heard some guys won't even roll the truck for less than $100 these days, and that's just to show up.