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<blockquote data-quote="Tanis143" data-source="post: 3348377" data-attributes="member: 43724"><p>Yeah, but how often do you think a home would need a 2nd or 3rd wire pulled through the conduit unless you were replacing something? Usually it would be just a 1st, maybe second and runs would be typically 100-130' unless its a mansion. Besides, like I said, I wouldn't have it be conduit the entire way, just to an attic access from the outlet location. And I'm looking at this from a slightly different perspective. Most new homes I go to use crappy coax on the pre-wired runs and I've had to tell a few homeowners either I run all new wiring on the outside of the house or they will need to get the electricians to rerun the whole house, otherwise no service from us. Granted, that is rare that the ingress is that bad, but most wiring I've seen fails our limit of -40 db of ingress allowed. Typically I will still use it until it gets above -30 db. But it would be nice if those cables were run in such a way that they could be replaced easily. Not to mention how many times people have mounted their tv's and put a mount screw right through the coax. Even though the conduit would have been punctured as well, it would be easy to back that screw out, replace the coax and then have them remount the tv while being more careful. </p><p></p><p>As a cable tech pre-wired 2 story homes are the bane of our existence for the most part. Especially when the split location is in a place where you can not run an outside line to it and sat beats us there. Then I get to explain I'll have to run an outside wire on their brand new $400k home... This is why I advocate the use of conduit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tanis143, post: 3348377, member: 43724"] Yeah, but how often do you think a home would need a 2nd or 3rd wire pulled through the conduit unless you were replacing something? Usually it would be just a 1st, maybe second and runs would be typically 100-130' unless its a mansion. Besides, like I said, I wouldn't have it be conduit the entire way, just to an attic access from the outlet location. And I'm looking at this from a slightly different perspective. Most new homes I go to use crappy coax on the pre-wired runs and I've had to tell a few homeowners either I run all new wiring on the outside of the house or they will need to get the electricians to rerun the whole house, otherwise no service from us. Granted, that is rare that the ingress is that bad, but most wiring I've seen fails our limit of -40 db of ingress allowed. Typically I will still use it until it gets above -30 db. But it would be nice if those cables were run in such a way that they could be replaced easily. Not to mention how many times people have mounted their tv's and put a mount screw right through the coax. Even though the conduit would have been punctured as well, it would be easy to back that screw out, replace the coax and then have them remount the tv while being more careful. As a cable tech pre-wired 2 story homes are the bane of our existence for the most part. Especially when the split location is in a place where you can not run an outside line to it and sat beats us there. Then I get to explain I'll have to run an outside wire on their brand new $400k home... This is why I advocate the use of conduit. [/QUOTE]
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