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Rolled into a new build and found 200ft of cat6 stapled to studs like Christmas lights
Got a call last month for a service job in a new subdivision in Austin. Some guy thought stapling cable straight across studs was fine, no slack, no service loops. Took me almost 4 hours to redo 12 drops because every pull yanked the connectors loose. Now I always ask builders if they got a sub who "knows what they're doing" before I even look at the quote. Has anyone else walked into a mess like that from a cheap rough-in crew?
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the_anthony4mo ago
Man, that staple gun rodeo hits too close to home. Walked into a job in Round Rock last year where they'd run cat6 behind wall insulation with zero fireblock or support. All it took was one drywaller pulling the line taut to pop every keystone jack off the faceplate. Had to fish new runs through a two-story chase and it was like playing Operation with a coat hanger. Your builder's "experienced sub" probably learned from YouTube tutorials.
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susan6494mo ago
Three drywallers in one afternoon is my personal record for fixing jacked up cable pulls in Austin. Had a crew last spring where they used leftover coax staples on cat6 and crushed half the pairs. The homeowner was watching me re-terminate and asked if I was some kind of magician. Told him no, I just learned to carry a spare 1000 foot spool in my truck for exactly this reason. Still, nothing beats the time I found a single run of fiber tucked inside a stud cavity with the slack coiled up like a rattlesnake.
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