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Visited a data center in Phoenix and noticed all their cables were color coded by department
Walked through a 50,000 sq ft facility and every single run had matching colors per floor. I'm thinking about doing this on my residential jobs now, anyone tried color coding by room?
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clairen851d ago
Yeah the "matching colors per floor" thing works Great for residential too. Pick one color per room and it saves So much time when you're tracing lines later.
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ray_campbell461d ago
Notice it happening everywhere too, not just with wires. My buddy runs a small construction crew and he color-codes his tool boxes the same way - red box for demo tools, blue for finish work, yellow for plumbing stuff. Saves him from digging through five different boxes when he's on a ladder. Seems like every trade I've run into has some version of this system, just with different names and materials. It's one of those things that sounds too simple to actually work until you try it and wonder why you didn't do it years ago.
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the_richard1d ago
Is it really that big of a deal though? I just use a label maker and write on the cable what room it goes to. Saves a bunch of time and I don't have to worry about running out of the right color. Plus if a client changes their mind on room colors six months later, your whole system is shot. But hey, if it works for @ray_campbell46 and his tool boxes, maybe I'm overthinking it. Seems like more effort than it's worth to me.
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