If you live in an old house, you're reduced to yelling through layers of plaster just to be heard in another room. If you live in a new home, chances are it's big enough to make hollering from one end to another a chore.
New intercoms sound better and have more features than ever.
His company, Custom Electronics in Falmouth, Maine, installs home electronic systems worldwide. Jeffrey Golding, president of Electronic Connections, a Farmington, Mich., installation company, says 85 percent of the new homes he wires have intercom systems. He sells only the phone-based intercom systems, preferring a system by Panasonic that combines paging, intercom, doorbell and normal phone functions. Most of today's systems include hands-free functions, allowing people to respond to calls without walking to a unit. Home intercoms can be handy devices.