We are mad busy but I can count on one hand how many bells only domestic systems we have fitted in the last 12 months and every one has maintenance or I have no interest in selling it at all.
Ha ha it's on my house and as you must know that's the last place that gets any work done on the alarm.
I have a galaxy 48 ready to fit, it's been there over a year as I can't be arsed fitting it.
We had the pleasure of removing a fully loaded abacus 64 from one of our sites a couple of years ago after a flood.
The Galaxy 96 that replaced it is a god send to work on compared to that old piece of tat.
Yes you could use a splitter and make 2 zones out of one, zone 1A and 1B.
Mine is a 8/80
I looked after 1000s of them at a company in Manchester I worked at for 10 years.
Email, then posted agreement form with T&C etc then fit, once fitted a paper copy of the full specification left with customer along with all the other paperwork.
It might of been wise to fully look into the cost of setting up and running a business before jumping ship.
If you get approved by SSAIB you can pay them about £60.00 / £70.00 per year to have access to all of the regs online.
Our intruder cables are fixed with plaster board fixings with a p clip and a tie every 1m.
At least I can hold my head up on site as our bit is spot on.
Today we have been 1st fixing intruder on a brand new build on a retail park in Dundee.
Sparky on site is fitting the fire alarm.
He thinks sticky pads and plasic ties meet the standards as 99% of his cables are fixed this way. No wonder we can't compete with these guys.
We have just taken over a large college with 8 mx advanced panels. No paperwork, no plans and nothing marked up.
The 1st visit will be 100% with all devices marked up on plans. Then a full report of things we need to do to bring upto standard.
Haha it's going to be a long list.
If I was you I would be looking for a new maintainer.
They leave a panel tamper on the system after a maintenance visit and then tell you your panel is faulty.