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Showerthought: Fiber installs in new builds are getting sloppy
I was at a house in Raleigh yesterday finishing a termination and overheard the GC on the phone complaining about how often fiber gets pinched in the walls now. He told someone they had three service calls this month just from bad bends behind drywall. It made me realize we are rushing these jobs too much to hit quotas. Anybody else seeing more callbacks from new construction than usual?
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uma_nguyen243d ago
Three service calls in one month is wild, I used to think the fiber guys were just being lazy but @seanjohnson's point about fly-by-night quality makes total sense now. I've seen it with my own eyes on a house I was finishing last week, the cable was so tight behind the drywall it had a kink that looked like it was bent with a hammer. They're running lines like it's a race, not a real install, and it's gonna cause problems for years.
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seanjohnson3d ago
Yeah "rushing to hit quotas" is exactly it. Feels like everything from fiber installs to house foundations is just fly-by-night quality now, people don't stop to check their work.
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