Vent: A customer in Denver tried to run their own line and it was a total mess

Last week I got a call for a no-signal issue at a split-level house. The homeowner had tried to save money by burying his own coax from the pole to the house three months ago. He used indoor-grade cable and just laid it in a shallow trench under some mulch. After the first big snow melt, the line was full of water and the connector was completely corroded. I had to run a whole new, proper direct-burial line from the tap. Has anyone else had to completely redo a DIY job that was just doomed from the start?

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rivera.susan2mo ago

Was it even that big of a deal though?

the_jake2mo ago

Depends what you mean by big deal. Did it change your life or just ruin your day?

lily57414d ago

You're talking about the thing with the email chain that went nuclear on Tuesday morning, right? The one where the boss's boss accidentally hit "reply all" instead of just "reply"? I'm asking because the damage control took three hours and five separate apologies, and from where I was standing, that felt pretty big. Did you catch the part where the whole IT department got roped in to scrub the server logs or was that just a rumor?