Re: Check out how this comcast installer ran wiring

[chasbo@xxxxxxxxx]

Back in the 1970's the owner of an alarm company in the Boston area
who did 99% commercial work, was recommended to put an alarm system in
a nice home.  With staple gun and 18/2 brown twisted, he brought up
the wires from the basement, through holes he drilled in the hardwood
floor at the bottom of the baseboard, stapled up the face of the
baseboard, onto the wallpapered wall, and on to the sill of the window
and attached a gray #39 Ademco surface-mounted switch and magnet.

After coming home at the end of the day to see the installers horrid
handywork, the homewoner complained about the exposed brown wires
stapled over his expensive wallpaper.  To which the installer replied,
"It's okay. When you wallpaper again, just run the wallpaper over the
wires!"

Referred by someone, I removed the brown handiwork, and fished
everything, after which I received much additional referral work.

On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:16:02 -0700, "Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:68ec3fea-02ad-4a65-91b3-d56681fcd29d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> On Saturday, September 29, 2012 11:08:05 AM UTC-4, Bill wrote:
>>> > > Had a dentist's office whose IT contractor had stapled a blue wire in
>>> > > a > meandering fashion along a white ceiling. > > When he got to a
>>> > > door, he just stapled down the wall and through the > open door -
>>> > > which can't be closed without pinching the cable. > I hired a young
>>> > > guy recently to help me remodel my house. He nailed in a vertical 2 x
>>> > > 4 for a window frame which was 1 inch further to the left at the
>>> > > bottom, than the top (not plumb - slanting). I pointed this out to
>>> > > him and he said "What's the problem?" I said it is going to look like
>>> > > hell after the drywall was up. He then proceeded to argue with me
>>> > > that "Things are done this way these days, etc. Everybody does work
>>> > > like that!" I said "Not in my house they don't". (I got more work
>>> > > done without his "help" because I did not have to redo his work.)
>>
>>
>> Years ago I met an installer who's philosophy was: "It's OK to do a sloppy
>> installation because you can fix it up later when you get called back for
>> service calls."
>>
>> He was very smug about it too. Like he had discovered the secret to
>> success.
>>
>> I was speechless. What could someone actually say in response to this? To
>> be polite ...."Keep up the good work"?  "Gee, I'll have to try that"? Or
>> ..... at the risk of having to spend hours explaining it ...... "You  DO
>> know the differ between right and wrong .....  smart and stupid .... Don't
>> you"?
>
>Sounds like a tweaker.