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I swear older homes had way more slack in the cable runs than new builds do now
Was in a 1985 house yesterday and had like 8 feet of coax to play with in the attic, but the new subdivisions I've hit since 2020 give you maybe 2 feet if you're lucky, which makes tight bends and stress on the connectors way more common - has anyone else noticed the builders pinching everything down to save materials?
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rodriguez.diana1mo ago
Total cost cutting. They count every inch of cable like it's gold now.
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terrybennett1mo ago
Know exactly what you mean. I see it happening more and more lately, and it really gets under my skin. It's like the bean counters forgot that cable is the whole foundation of what we do. They don't see the hours of troubleshooting time wasted when you use cheap stuff that fails. It's false economy if you ask me. Hang in there, it's frustrating for all of us dealing with it.
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xenagarcia11d ago
My uncle built houses in the 90s and he told me back then the builders would just toss in extra cable because it was cheaper than measuring twice. I found an old roll of RG6 in a 1978 house last month that had a full 15 foot loop just sitting in the wall cavity doing nothing. Now these new places have the cable stapled so tight to the studs you can barely get a finger behind it. The worst part is when they use those plastic push-in connectors that break if you look at them wrong. I had to redo an entire room in a 2022 build because the builder used 1 foot pigtails everywhere and the signal kept dropping.
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