Re: Up in An Attic In August in Yuma Arizona

[RTS <gafa@xxxxxxx>]

On 8/14/2018 7:02 AM, ABLE1 wrote:
> On 8/14/2018 1:02 AM, mleuck wrote:
>> On Sunday, August 12, 2018 at 11:00:41 AM UTC-5, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>> "mleuck"Â  wrote in message
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>>> On Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 8:00:24 PM UTC-5, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>> Ran a new cable modem cable on Saturday.  Holy crap!  How do you
>>>> guys do
>>>> this ever day?
>>>
>>> Come to Texas and see what I went through, and Florida
>>>
>>> **********Â  Just look at the high temps across the country. Its not
>>> usually
>>> in Texas or Florida.  Now the humidity in those places is killer,
>>> but I've
>>> measured temps in attics here close to 160F.  Yes.  Properly cooked
>>> meat
>>> temperatures.  Yes, actually took a meat thermometer into the attic
>>> and left
>>> it set for a few minutes.  Mine wasn't that bad, but it was hot.  I
>>> just
>>> haven't done it for a while.  I forgot how hot it used to be. I'm
>>> telling
>>> my wife next time we need to run a new cable for something its going
>>> to have
>>> to wait until January.
>>
>> As bad as Texas attics can be they were nothing compared to Florida
>> houses, low attics and they always had a sunroom with no attic, doors
>> had steel beams above that prevented drilling to the attic, walls of
>> plaster and chicken wire...ugh
>>
> And I assume those houses are built on slabs, meaning no
> basement................  right??
>
> In the northeast we also have very old houses.  With full finished
> attics, basement ceilings covered with drywall, crawl spaces that have
> little or no access with mud and rocks, walls built with REAL 2" x 4"
> studs, fire breaks between the wall framing studs that are never at
> the same level above the floor, full size additions that can't be
> reached without blasting with a "quarter-stick" or two. Boom!!
>
> Then there is new construction. Always wanted to be the last doing the
> rough-in.  Except you find out that the electrician forgot a piece of
> romex wire and decided to use your wire holes because it was easier than
> drilling new holes.  Or drilled through a stud into your wires, and
> made repairs by twisting the colors together and then taping with his
> black
> tape roll.  Or the Comcast guy that decided to use your pull string for
> his single RG6 Quad and didn't bother to put the string back, just left
> it on a pile with his cable.  I hope he reads this someday........soon.
>
> Ahhh and so it goes, the trails and tribulations of the low voltage
> installer..................
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> Les
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Yep,  been there and done that..  LOL


*Rocky T. Squirrel, esq.*