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Warning: I wired a whole house with 2-conductor instead of 4-conductor for keypads and had to redo it all.
The extra $80 for the right cable upfront would have saved me 6 hours of labor pulling new lines. Anyone else learned this the hard way on a retrofit?
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christopher4026mo ago
Yeah, "you can't cheat the spec" is the universal contractor's curse. It's like the universe charges a stupid tax for trying to save a few bucks. Always ends up costing more time and money in the end.
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lee_martinez976mo ago
Man, that's the worst. Been there with speaker wire, thought I could save a few bucks on a roll of 16-gauge. Ended up with half my speakers sounding tinny and weak. You just can't cheat the spec. That extra cash for the right stuff is basically insurance. Why do we always try to cut that corner?
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