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.diana21d ago

Total cost cutting. They count every inch of cable like it's gold now.

terrybennett21d 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.