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Ajax wrote:

I have always though that the electrician should be the last trade on
the job. Plumbers can do a lot of damage that often is not obvious
until someone finds a dead circuit or worse.

Second that.

However, it's the low-voltage stuff, like phone, that is PARTICULARLY
vulnerable to damage by subsequent persons working around it.

Telephone is the "Rodney Dangerfield" of the utility world. It gets NO
RESPECT AT ALL from the other trades.

Gas: Boom

Electric: Zap

Water: Gush

Sewer: Ick

Phone: So?

Build a shed and cut the underground phone drop? No sweat.

Don't call the phone company and risk being held responsible, if it was your
mistake. You simply splice it back together with wire nuts and thermostat
cable, tape it up and put it back in the ground. It will last several months
until well after you've cashed the customer's check.

Moving a wall and need to extend the telephone cable? No sweat. Solder a
pipe and NUKE the phone cable? No problem.

Don't pay a professional. Just piece it out with a length of thermostat wire
and wire nuts and you're done! The customer won't discover the effect of your
shoddy work until well after you are long gone. (And it's ALL under
sheetrock, baby!)

Yes, Virginia, there IS a special way to make - and repair - phone cable.
There has been for almost a hundred years. Call before you dig!
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JR