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I ventured under my 120 year old house to make a couple Ethernet runs. It took a lot of meditation on my part to bear doing it. On one run, I needed my wife to
by sgtnoodle 4y ago
I ventured under my 120 year old house to make a couple Ethernet runs. It took a lot of meditation on my part to bear doing it. On one run, I needed my wife to pull on a fish line from above, but then she had to feed the baby, and so I watched an episode of star trek on my phone for half an hour while wedged between wood stilts.
6 months later, I got a notice that the cable I used was recalled for a bad UL rating. Monoprice had to pay a contractor had to come out and replace it. When coordinating the work, I warned the company that it was a very dirty job that would require two people. They sent an older guy out all alone, and he poked around for half an hour then left, saying he would come back with PPE and a helper. A couple weeks later the same guy came back alone and unprepared again. Finally the third time he came back with a much younger guy and bunny suits, and they redid the runs.
I had stapled the cables up every couple meters, and followed a Manhattan path based on where I could crawl to. they just fished it in a straight line, and left it resting in the dirt. They presumably billed Monoprice several thousand dollars...
- humpday69 4y agoWhat is a "bunny suit" in this context? The web results make me wonder if there was miscommunication about hiring plumbers for a "very dirty job" if you know what I mean.
- sgtnoodle 4y agoOh, and they left the box of recalled cable that I hadn't installed yet, so I have like 400ft of free but uninstallable CAT6.
- HWR_14 4y agoFree but uninstallable CAT6 has some uses. I've seen quite a few street artists use the thin copper wires to make art, usually jewelry. But with 400 ft, I could see some art or construction projects that make use of it as a physical not electrical product.
- sgtnoodle 4y agoIt would be perfectly safe to run in a conduit or to bury. It's just not rated to run between floors, but was stamped saying it was. My home is single story, and I mentioned that during the recall process, but the process was rather rigid...
- HWR_14 4y agoWhat does "the process was rather rigid" mean? Couldn't you just decline? (Although maybe it wasn't even safe for your use.) But then, I don't even understand why it would be safe to run except between floors. Also, did you try pushing back on the replacement worker's work? It's a bitch to do, but I've gotten companies to either redo their handyman's bad work or just let me choose a vendor (which I would ask for after the 2nd time he showed up.) Stapled Manhattan distance wiring is not the same as diagonal through the dirt.