Whoever roughs in phone/cable in great gulf homes

[loudsubz]

Man they do a piss poor job.

I was at a clients house today and they had phone/cable roughed in from the builder, and all they did was run the lines to the outlets and leave 3feet of cable in the basement under each run, so we had 6 telephone jacks and 2 cable jacks and all of the lines had to be spliced because none of them were longer than 3 feet from their install location.

I know wire is expensive, but we had to rip it all out and do home runs. That was THE worst I have seen from a rough in so far.

[BuildingHomes]

You must be new to this :)

This is pretty common for some builders houses. Reason being it's cheaper than doing home runs. You pay for am mudring and about 6' of wire cat3-3p. It gets the job done to the point of where it can be extended after the HO moves in.

I've had to do it countless times over the last 5 years for Great Gulf and unnamed others.



Man they do a piss poor job.

I was at a clients house today and they had phone/cable roughed in from the builder, and all they did was run the lines to the outlets and leave 3feet of cable in the basement under each run, so we had 6 telephone jacks and 2 cable jacks and all of the lines had to be spliced because none of them were longer than 3 feet from their install location.

I know wire is expensive, but we had to rip it all out and do home runs. That was THE worst I have seen from a rough in so far.

[loudsubz]

You must be new to this :)

This is pretty common for some builders houses. Reason being it's cheaper than doing home runs. You pay for am mudring and about 6' of wire cat3-3p. It gets the job done to the point of where it can be extended after the HO moves in.

I've had to do it countless times over the last 5 years for Great Gulf and unnamed others.

Not new, just work with a higher standard builder I guess. We have never had to cheap out like that. Either you pay for the run and get a proper setup, or don't get the run at all. I don't see any advantage doing it this way either. You will loose dB loss by splicing rg6 connections, and you also creat problems with the phone by splicing, if the splicers arnt connected properly, or work loose over time. Then you have the headache if something goes wrong on a splice and you have drywalled over the splice in the basement....go figure.

[Frankie3s]

Why is anyone surprised? Most builders do shoddy work and build just to code. Doing a google search (or even and RFD one) will seldomly yield high praise for any builder.

[AudiDude]

Tribute does 2 Cat5e and 2 RG6 homeruns to every location except the kitchen and the smallest bedroom.