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I bought a home last year. It had been pretty well maintained, but even so it had layers of forgotten technology I had to remove. Doorbell chimes that no longer
by dionidium 6y ago
I bought a home last year. It had been pretty well maintained, but even so it had layers of forgotten technology I had to remove. Doorbell chimes that no longer worked. The panel to a long-disconnected alarm system. Phone jacks that hadn’t been used in a decade, at least. Layers of unrelated coax runs from various satellite and cable companies.
It’s remarkable how much of a difference you can make just by skimming off the layers of antiquated crud in a room.
It’s kind of wild to me how often these things are left in place even as they’re retired.
- war1025 6y agoI wish it was more common to have conduit runs for cables rather than just having them strung randomly through walls and crawl spaces. That would make upgrading from one technology to the next much easier.
- sokoloff 6y agoWe wired my parent's place during construction in 1999. A mix of mostly plastic conduit with wires fished inside and a couple of runs that were not in conduit. Out of 56 total drop locations (many with multiple cables), we've seen the need to fish new wires down the conduits exactly 0 times in 21 years. That makes for a tough RoI calculation, especially if we'd been paying for all the labor to do the conduit installs.