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Some Fun Stuff.....

This is our doorbell, it has a camera mounted in it so we can
see who is at the front door. The system is from Aiphone, one
can read about them here:
http://www.aiphone.com/General_Info/What



This collection of boxes sits in the middle of the house
on the second floor landing. The bottom device is the
doorbell chime, it also has a video monitor so that we can
see who is at the front door, we can also pick up that phone
and talk with them. The upper two boxes are thermostats
and damper controls switches.




Our two skylights are now operable. We LOVE them, Velux makes
great products. Shown are the remote control and the hard wired switches to control the skylights when the remote control is lost. We can control both up and down movement of the window and the deployment of an externally mounted solar shade screen.
http://www.veluxusa.com/



We have a total of 5 ceiling fans in the house. They are all `Cirrus' models from
The Modern Fan Company and are all shiny shiny....... http://www.modernfan.com/


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