Hey you filled my boxes with foam!

[mkgrady]

I'm doing a house Reno where they installed icineen (sp?) insulation. It is closed cell so it is pretty dense. Some of my boxes are filled with the crap. Anybody have any ideas on an easy way to prevent this or if it could cause any future issues. One guy told me the stuff is flammable but I suppose the blue boxes are too. I plan do dig and scrape the stuff out and off the wires.

 

[E16]

We always use duct tape in block walls to keep the grout out. Wonder if that would work for your application also?

 

[GerryB]

I did one job with that and the foam guys covered the boxes with blue masting tape. Very nice of them, although it didn't help me with a bunch of changes that were made after everything was all foamed up.

 

[480sparky]

Cover it up with what you want. Some insulators will remove it and fill your boxes anyway.

Bin dere, dun dat.

 

[mopowr steve]

Wow who did you P off.

 

[augie47]

http://www.smartguardcovers.com/product/1g-mud-ring-blank-cover/

 

[JDB3]

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On the single family houses that I mainly work on, the sheet rockers use something like a rotor-zip tool (don't know the right name) to cut the opening for my boxes after the sheet-rock is installed. Wouldn't this tool cut the plastic cover on my box?

 

[mivey]

Anybody have any ideas on an easy way to prevent this

Just include a price to remove it for a small phenomenal fee.

 

[mivey]

Wouldn't this tool cut the plastic cover on my box?

Yep. And your wire as well. I try to pack as far back in the box as I can but they always seem to find a way to let the bit get loose and roto-blend my wires.

 

[Strathead]

Get a job working commercial:lol:. I find my reactions are taken much more seriously. Like, "you don't want to find the box you buried behind sheetrock? That's OK, I have a hammer!"

 

[mwm1752]

I'm doing a house Reno where they installed icineen (sp?) insulation. It is closed cell so it is pretty dense. Some of my boxes are filled with the crap. Anybody have any ideas on an easy way to prevent this or if it could cause any future issues. One guy told me the stuff is flammable but I suppose the blue boxes are too. I plan do dig and scrape the stuff out and off the wires.

Get out your change order book -- crumple newspaper & stuff the box prior to insulation.

 

[Fulthrotl]

I'm doing a house Reno where they installed icineen (sp?) insulation. It is closed cell so it is pretty dense. Some of my boxes are filled with the crap. Anybody have any ideas on an easy way to prevent this or if it could cause any future issues. One guy told me the stuff is flammable but I suppose the blue boxes are too. I plan do dig and scrape the stuff out and off the wires.

that is NOT gonna be any fun. what i do on commercial work, where i use steel boxes, is i make up the
boxes before i put on the rings, and put three 3 1/2" bar coasters in each box, then put the ring on.
the wire stays behind the coasters, the roto zip pushes back the coasters, and doesn't cut thru, the mud
builds up on the coaster instead of filling the box, and you rip them out with needle nose, and trim.

i did cat 6 jacks, made them up, and put them behind the bar coasters. 250 of them. pulled them out,
snapped them into trim plates, and screwed them down.... zero failures at gigabit eithernet speed.
had three data lines per box.

 

[mivey]

i did cat 6 jacks, made them up, and put them behind the bar coasters. 250 of them.

How did you get that many? A wee bit of the Irish in ya?