Showerthought: The before and after difference in a customer's attic cable job after 10 years

I was up in a crawlspace last week redoing old coax runs from 2014, and the before was a tangled mess of dusty cables with no labels. The after was my tidy work with Velcro ties and a clear junction box, which took me about three hours to straighten out. Has anyone else noticed how customers never see what their attic looks like until it's too late?

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dakota1607d ago

...and that's exactly why I always take a "before" selfie with my headlamp on when I start one of those jobs. My buddy Dave did a cable install back in 2018 and the customer's attic had old Christmas lights still plugged in from like 2009, tangled with coax and speaker wire, looked like a spiderweb of hot plastic waiting to happen. He sent me the photo and I swear it was the same vibe as those hoarder houses you see on TV, just with more dust and mouse droppings. I've learned to always take a junk food break halfway through those attic cleanups, otherwise my back starts screaming at me by the time I'm done lmao.

reese_garcia7d ago

The spiderweb of hot plastic waiting to happen" - dude that's exactly what my friend Mark walked into last summer up in Waco. He was doing a crawlspace cleanup and found a tangle of old extension cords wrapped around PVC pipes that had melted together from some ancient space heater someone forgot about. @dakota160 I swear it looked like those Christmas lights your buddy Dave found, just a nightmare of melted plastic and dust bunnies. Mark texted me a photo and I could smell the burnt wire through the screen...