It's almost like people are willing and happy to spend multiple thousands of dollars on great speakers and TVs.

And then when they get to their network, they want to spend like $100, you know.

Until something goes wrong, right?

Right, exactly.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. you know and until something goes wrong right and then you're like yeah yeah yeah yeah welcome to the fine home building pro talk podcast our regular discussion with building

industry professionals this is senior editor patrick mccome today i'm joined by home integrators

aaron stallings and michael, of TSP in Boston.

You can find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Home Building podcast at finehomebuilding.com slash podcast.

It is a pleasure to have you guys on this show today. Thanks so much for doing this.

No, it's great to be here.

So I have to be honest. I had never heard the term home integrator until maybe a couple

months ago when a podcast listener rode in to describe the role. For the rest of us, who may be

unfamiliar, can you please tell us what you guys do? Michael, do you want to go first?

Yeah, absolutely. Happy to jump in. So a home, a technology integrator as it's developed over the years,

used to be somebody that knew, let's say, hi-fi and stereos, but, you know, that's 20 years ago and fast forward to now. And everything is technology in the home, right? I mean, and especially the last year with COVID, we've all lived at home and we've all experienced poor Wi-Fi. We've all experienced like outdoor, you know, that people want to listen to audio outdoors and they may or may not have speakers or solutions.

And so our job is to integrate all that technology into the home experience, into the experience of living in that place, you know, in as best as we can, you know, as the client

wants it. And of course, within budget and with all the other components and people that have

to be involved in a project, we really just try to execute that vision. And so what kind of

things are people asking you to integrate, Aaron?

It's really, it runs the gamut depending on the size of the home, the homeowners, you know, their comfort level.

Oftentimes different homeowners, different users of that system have different needs and different, you know, comfort

levels. So, but for residential, generally, you can almost expect there's going to be some

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