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Why does nobody talk about leaving extra slack in the drop line
I was out on a job in Austin last week, an older house with a tight attic crawl... The last guy who ran cable left like zero slack at the entry point. Had to climb back down and rerun a whole 50 foot line just to get enough to terminate neat. If he'd left an extra 3 feet coiled up, I would've been done in 10 minutes. Anyone else run into installs where people cut it way too close?
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alexk6010d ago
Leave a damn service loop, it's not that hard.
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grant.felix8d ago
Three feet of service loop at every drop" - man, you hit it EXACTLY. So my buddy Mike, works for a different shop, he had a job downtown where the previous installers left like FOUR inches sticking out of the wall plate. Not even enough to put a connector on. He had to patch the drywall and pull a whole new line from the basement. The client was PISSED because the wall got torn open for no reason. If they'd just left that extra loop coiled in the wall box, Mike coulda been out of there in 20 minutes with a clean termination. Instead it turned into a three hour mess with drywall dust everywhere. It's like some guys think extra cable is a SIN or something.
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