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Wait so why was monoprice on the hook to pay for reinstalling it?

• sgtnoodle 5y ago
  They sold a product with a UL stamp on it claiming the cable had a certain fire safety rating that's required by building code for multi-story runs. For whatever reason, they learned the cable didn't actually conform to that rating. They therefore had to recall the cable (and replace any installed runs) to presumably avoid getting sued for any buildings that burn down that happen to have their mislabeled cable in the walls. In my particular usage it was all single story and so the lack of the claimed UL rating didn't seem to materially matter. I mentioned that to the various points of contact that I had, but it was 2 or three layers deep of subcontractors, and they just trudged ahead with their directive. The funny thing is that Monoprice sent me another 500' spool of properly rated cable, and the contractors didn't bother to take the 400' or so left of unused faulty cable. So, I have a bunch of "free" high quality but unusable for construction cat6.