[lug] OT: Wiring recommendations?

[LittleViggy at alum.manhattan.edu]

I can't recommend someone to do the work (I like to do a lot of that stuff 
myself), but I can tell you whom to STAY AWAY from!

I just bought a brand new house in Longmont, and the builder contracted TIKOMM 
wiring to do the telephone, cable, and Cat5e network lines.  When I moved in, 
my two phone lines were crossed in the house, and NONE of the network jacks 
were wired correctly.  The "home run" box in the basement was a MESS, with bare 
telephone wires showing (potential shorting problems); one of the cable lines 
had a bad connecter on it (the cable shielding was shorted to the center wire, 
such that when you LOOKED at the connector, you could plainly see it was 
shorted).

So, I recommed AGAINST TIKOMM wiring!

Viggy

Elyse Grasso wrote:
> 
> I would like to hire someone to do some wiring in my house:
> 
> 1) replace old non-standard phone wiring with decent stuff, replace wall 
jacks
> 2) add phone jacks in a few places that don't have them
> 3) put home theater speaker wires inside the walls, so I can stop tripping on
> them
> 4) cable the house with cat5e, so I can stop tripping on network cables
> 5) possibly, reorganize coax connection from satellite dish to TV.
> 
> I have no attic or overhead crawl space, but do have an almost full basement
> under most of the places where new wiring needs to go (one speaker wire may
> be tricky to do without a lot of damage to the drywall). The cat5e can
> go all the same places as the phones lines,
> 
> Can anyone recommend someone who is good at these kinds of wiring projects in
> exisitng structures? I have remodeling money immediately available, and would
> like to get the wiring done before I get bids on drywall work, painting, etc.
> 
> Thanks
> 
>
Elyse

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