The intercom is a wonderful device that allows residents of an apartment building to prevent unwanted visitors from entering the entrance. With the advent of intercoms, it has become much easier to solve the problem of dirt in the stairwells and noise from fun companies of young people who decided that it was too cold to spend time on the street. At the entrance to the house, where there is an intercom, the homeless do not sleep. They are becoming more aware of how important it is to put the intercom on the porch door.
Opening a business of installing intercoms makes sense in two cases: if your region still has a large number of multi-storey buildings in which there is no intercom, or if a large number of new multi-apartment buildings are regularly built. Clients of companies that install intercoms are not only apartment buildings. Intercoms are also often ordered to mansions with a large adjoining territory, and usually very expensive models, but most of the income still comes from multi-apartment high-rise buildings.
To open a doorphone installation business, it is enough to register as an individual entrepreneur, choose a simplified taxation system and open a bank account to which payment for your services will be transferred. If you intend to also receive money in cash, then you need to purchase strict reporting forms.
Initial investments for starting a doorphone installation business are relatively small. It is necessary to have freight transport and an office with a warehouse. The most important thing is to find a supplier of high-quality equipment and good specialists who will know what and how to do. From a technical point of view, installing an intercom system is not so complicated, but it requires an understanding of the principle of equipment operation and accuracy during installation and installation. As a rule, installers receive a small salary (about 15 thousand rubles) and a percentage of orders. It is very important not to make a mistake with the equipment. Before purchasing, it is better to study reviews on online forums and not immediately purchase large batches of equipment, of which you are not yet sure of quality. Since the organizations that install the equipment, then undertake to service it throughout the entire life cycle, poor-quality intercoms that quickly fail, can cause losses.
The usual intercom for an apartment building is an electromagnetic lock on the front door, the wires from which extend to the apartments; a door closer is installed on the door. The lock always keeps the door closed. It can withstand up to 450 kilograms of force. The lock serves for a long time, but if any problems arise, for example, the power is turned off, the door remains open until the power is turned on. Thanks to the presence of a closer, the door always closes. The double spring, which is the basis of this device, retains its dynamic characteristics for many years.
In apartments subscriber units are installed. Residents are given special keys or cards from the castle. Keys can be made independently, or you can bring in a key workshop. When installing equipment in an old house, the door is usually changed: it makes no sense to put a new lock if there is a decrepit wooden door at the entrance. For this reason, it is worthwhile to find a reliable company engaged in the installation of entrance metal doors of different price ranges, and to attract it if necessary. As a response, the door installer can also recommend you to its customers. A two-leaf metal door is suitable for installing an intercom. Sometimes metal doors that do not need to be changed are already standing at the porches. Sometimes the door is new and metal, but one-sheeted. Then it can be finalized - weld another sheet. However, if you don’t put the doors yourself, but conclude an agreement with specialists, it will be difficult for you to control the speed and quality of your organization’s execution of orders, since everything will depend not only on you. It is better to hire a person who will install the doors, a couple of movers, since the doors weigh quite a lot, and purchase freight vehicles on which you will carry metal doors. Installing doors to the entrances will be another article of your income.
The cost of an intercom lock for bulk purchase of equipment from suppliers starts from 2 thousand rubles. Subscriber units cost from 400 rubles each. The installation cost depends on the number of apartments, the degree of complexity, the consumption of wire and fasteners.
Installation and installation of the doorphone involves the following operations: installation and installation of the door station doorphone panel, the installation of an automatic fuse in the switchboard with the exception, the connection of subscriber doorphones to the entrance doorphone, the installation of audio tubes and power supplies, the installation of the microphone, the laying of communications. Installation and installation of intercom equipment for one subscriber will cost 12-20 thousand rubles. The cost of equipment will be 4-10 thousand rubles, the rest is a fee for work. The installation of collective equipment on the porch costs 15-25 thousand rubles, of which 7-10 thousand rubles - payment for the services of installers.
Installation of an intercom system in an apartment building takes, on average, from 3 to 5 days, depending on the number of apartments. Thus, the profit from the installation and installation of audio intercoms in a five-door five-story building will be about 50 thousand rubles.
The cost of manufacturing one magnetic key is 70-100 rubles. Owners of apartments who are against installing a doorphone (and there are almost always such ones) need to be given one free key so that they can get into their apartment, otherwise there may be complications with law enforcement agencies.
In addition to the income from the installation of intercoms, you can earn income from subsequent maintenance of equipment. For this purpose, it is necessary to conclude an agreement with the HOA. The cost of the service can be included in receipts for utility bills, or the owners of subscriber units must transfer the agreed amount to your account. As a rule, the amount is small, 500-1000 rubles per year. However, if the fee is not included in the receipt, then only a small percentage of subscribers will pay regularly - the rest will simply be forgotten. Ideally, with a contract for servicing intercoms with at least 20 100-apartment buildings, you can receive a million rubles a year. If high-quality equipment was used, then repair or replacement will be required quite rarely.
In regions where there is very high competition between organizations involved in installing intercoms to receive an order for installation, they sometimes offer free follow-up services. On the other hand, there are cases when installed intercoms are not serviced at all, and there is no one to replace damaged equipment, which is why residents experience a lot of inconvenience. In such a situation, it is possible to offer HOAs their services and get an agreement on the maintenance of doorphones installed by another organization. However, if the cheapest equipment of low quality was installed, then this will not be a bargain.
To get an order, you often have to make cold calls: contact the chairpersons of the HOA, offering them their services, and then attend meetings of homeowners, talk about the benefits of intercoms. Do not forget about individuals who often want to install a video intercom in their homeownership. If you place an advertisement on the territory of an actively developing cottage community, you can get quite a lot of orders.
Merkulova Natalya
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