The requested picture after Spectrum came back out. They moved the box down, ran the conduit through the knockout, and put in a shorter cable so there wasn’t 50’ rolled up in there. They still need to bury the line so that’s why the main cable isn’t protected yet. Thanks to those who commented/helped on my last post.

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Looks good

When spectrum came to wire in my new house I was at work and the guy called me asking how I wanted the coax ran since most people don’t want it on the exterior.

I told the guy I work for one of if not the largest network company in Texas. All I care about is that it’s ran clean, not going to make you crawl through the attic just make it clean as fuck.

Dude did an outstanding job I’m talking straight runs perfect 90’s and even drip loops holy shit Batman I called spectrum and raved about the guy. Then called him up and gave him a $50 tip. He ran it exactly to a friggin T how I would have done it.

Got him a job in the end making significantly more money with us than he did at spectrum.

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You sound like a pretty cool guy!

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Cannot express how hard it is to find people who take their job personally to the point of paying attention to the small details.

We get IT guys who think their gods to man kind and comb through everything with a fine tooth comb. This guys first bout of cable dressing with me he didn’t have single twist, no divers. It was damn near perfect. The only issue was where the cable broke off the trunk to the patch panels. He had them a little 45ish. Showed him you want a smooth sweeping 90 and he dressed form entry to panel perfectly from them on. I left to another company a few years later and he had gone from a tech 1 to lead and had his own crew.

If you do good work it shows and it might just change your life. You never know who is going to see your work.

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Auctul legend there.
You definitely made that guys day a million times better most likely for sure

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Looks much better.

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I’d put some silicone around the liquid tight conduit and some duct seal in the open conduit around the fiber. Help keep bugs out an moisture.

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I’ll definitely do that because it goes straight into a box in my laundry room

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Happy ending!

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A million times better!

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