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Why does nobody talk about the old phone lines in those 1920s houses?
I was crawling under a house in the historic district last week, trying to run a new coax line, and my drill bit hit a solid metal pipe that turned out to be a lead-sheathed phone line from like a hundred years ago. I had to stop everything, call the homeowner, and explain we needed to map the whole crawlspace before I could safely drill another hole. Has anyone else run into this kind of old wiring and found a good way to work around it without damaging anything?
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the_alex15d ago
Pain to find" is right, but the real issue is they're often still live. I've seen them tied into old alarm systems that nobody knows about. You cut one and suddenly the whole house is beeping.
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