I had one job today. Running new wire from the prefield I did like 3 months ago. lol
So I get my 6 wires in place. 4/6 to different locations, and then I came to this one.
I open up the ceiling tile (PITA in itself) and see that the electrical wire and the phone wire are running through the same hole in the sill plate.
Thinking "shit..." I decide screw it and tape a chunk of wire onto the cat3 wire that was existing, yank up enough, tie on my two cat5 wires and start pulling.
It's not going anywhere... So I pull harder. yep. The tape comes off and my pull wire pops out. *sigh*
So now I'm annoyed that I have to go get my drill and extension cord and redrill this sill plate.
My question to these assholes who did the wires before me; WHAT posessed you jackasses to pull the phone and electrical through the same drill spot and THEN run the phone wire through the 2x4 going down the wall BEFORE the wall was built?
Wire runs 90% easier when the drywall/siding isn't up, yet they chose to slack off, which in turn made me work more than I had to.
I even drew a nifty little drawing in paint. I'm so talented.
The runs were annoying enough... all the way across the building via a ladder over false ceiling, and then up through a hole in concrete to the phone/data room. Then I had to deal with what should have taken me 5 minutes taking 30 minutes.
On top of that, as I was cutting the tape off my sticks (tape wire on them and they extend your reach about 20 feet letting you pull wire every 3-4 ceiling tiles instead of every 1-2), as I did so I cut into them and then I pretty much jabbed several fibers into my thumb. Gotta love fiberglass.
and yeah I know none of ya care really because it doesn't make much sense, but I wanted to talk about it.
So I get my 6 wires in place. 4/6 to different locations, and then I came to this one.
I open up the ceiling tile (PITA in itself) and see that the electrical wire and the phone wire are running through the same hole in the sill plate.
Thinking "shit..." I decide screw it and tape a chunk of wire onto the cat3 wire that was existing, yank up enough, tie on my two cat5 wires and start pulling.
It's not going anywhere... So I pull harder. yep. The tape comes off and my pull wire pops out. *sigh*
So now I'm annoyed that I have to go get my drill and extension cord and redrill this sill plate.
My question to these assholes who did the wires before me; WHAT posessed you jackasses to pull the phone and electrical through the same drill spot and THEN run the phone wire through the 2x4 going down the wall BEFORE the wall was built?
Wire runs 90% easier when the drywall/siding isn't up, yet they chose to slack off, which in turn made me work more than I had to.
I even drew a nifty little drawing in paint. I'm so talented.
The runs were annoying enough... all the way across the building via a ladder over false ceiling, and then up through a hole in concrete to the phone/data room. Then I had to deal with what should have taken me 5 minutes taking 30 minutes.
On top of that, as I was cutting the tape off my sticks (tape wire on them and they extend your reach about 20 feet letting you pull wire every 3-4 ceiling tiles instead of every 1-2), as I did so I cut into them and then I pretty much jabbed several fibers into my thumb. Gotta love fiberglass.
and yeah I know none of ya care really because it doesn't make much sense, but I wanted to talk about it.
