CRW,
Thank you for your post, It made me laugh.
We just discussed leaving the Fire alarm work due to the high overhead costs in doing such work. The books and updates required to do this work are volumes. We have aprox. 200 on the shelf now and need about $1,700 worth of updates. And after that we go to work on our Log books, which require continued updating. Not like electrical work, where you install, get paid and go to the next job.
Once you install a system, you are married to it, for better or worse, all your overhead will double, the day you start Fire system work. You will not find that one book on Fire Systems, most of these systems are built to meet the requirements of each job,
and you can't just build a job as you do with electrical work. And yes NFPA 72 is where you start.
[This message has been edited by LK (edited 01-07-2004).]
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