Neat-O: $2 Million Nightmare
By Arlen Schweiger
Beyond Audio cleaned up the original wiring mess, spending four hours redoing the cable TV and six more for the LAN service.

You would expect everything in a new $2 million home to be spic ’n span, but this British Columbia, Canada, residence was left with some electrical work that looked more like a child wired it than a professional contractor.

Compared with the low-voltage done on the neighbors’ house, it’s easy to see why installer Beyond Audio was called on to patch things up.



It was the Kelowna, B.C.-based integrator that had wired the neighboring home, and when that owner saw this mess, “our client insisted this owner call us,” says Beyond Audio’s Mike Ohman.

At first, the owner was hesitant to have things moved around, says Ohman. “We saw the wiring the first day with the client, and he suggested we not touch it for fear everything would stop working altogether. They had just moved in, two TVs were working and his computer network kind of worked, but he had to keep things operational during a light renovation.”

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