Using A Home Alarm Service

Switch to your 3/8- inch by 12 to 18 inch long drill bit and continue drilling towards the basement, finally switch to your 5-foot long bell hangers bit and continue drilling till you pop out in the basement. Pull the long bit out of the hole and remove it from the hole. Poke the skinny end of the long bit down the hole.

Go down to the attic with a flashlight, diagonal wire cutters, tape, marker, staple gun with staples in it, as well as a spool or box of 22 gauge 2 conductor wire. Strip the plastic material off of the end of your wire about 2 inches. Twist the 2 wires together and thread them via the hole at the end of the skinny side of the long bit and twist it around itself. Go back upstairs and pull the wire as much as the hole. Tie a large loose and temporary knot in the wire after you get it there, so that it will not fall back within the hole. Leave at least 12 inches upstairs, so that you can function with the wire.

Go back downstairs and begin to roll out enough wire to make it to your control panel. Staple the wires with an industrial stapler like a T22 along the beams in a neat and orderly manner from the drop hole towards the control panel. Be sure you're not penetrating the wire with each staple, when you do, remove it now and re-staple. These mistakes are hard to trace after you walk away. Be sure to make it down the wall stud to where you'll poke into the back of your control panel (about chest high) and leave an additional foot or a lot more of wire before cutting it off the spool. Mark your wire with the tape and marker various inches from the end. You made your first run. Be positive to gather and return all tools to the starting point so that you simply know where they are if you will need them.

Get your 3/8 inch recessed contact and magnet. You will will need a drill, extension cord (unless you are employing a wireless drill), electrical tape, and also a wire cutter. Split the end of you wire and strip a small amount of plastic cover off of both ends. Do the same with your contact unless you have the kind that has small screws for the wires to be clamped under. Twist each end of your wire to an end of the contact wire and tape tightly and individually. After you do each one you can wrap a bit of tape around the whole thing tightly. (It matters not which wire goes to which wire because this is a circuit wire, and has no positive or negative side.) Very carefully poke the wire into the hole and press the contact in. Now mark the door inside the spot that the magnet will meet the contact, when the door is closed. Stabilize the door and drill a 3/8 " hole just deep enough to put the magnet in. Repeat for each door you want contacted.