Romex Markings

[Thomas R]

Now that Romex has skyrocketed in price, maybe the manufacturer can afford to print footage markers on the jacket....why is this a standard on cat6 but not nm?

 

[McLintock]

Well, if I had to guess on that I would say it’s the way it’s packaged, can see how much is left on a puck of nm because it’s not in a box like your cat6.


“ shoot low boys their riding shetland ponies”

 

[infinity]

Sounds like a good idea to me.

 

[480sparky]

Well, if I had to guess on that I would say it’s the way it’s packaged, can see how much is left on a puck of nm because it’s not in a box like your cat6.


“ shoot low boys their riding shetland ponies”

Some of use 1000-footers.

Shoot low, boys - They're riding shetland ponies.

 

[marmathsen]

Now that Romex has skyrocketed in price, maybe the manufacturer can afford to print footage markers on the jacket....why is this a standard on cat6 but not nm?

I've always wondered the same thing.

Our work around that we adopted years ago is that we use weight to determine how much we use. I have a spreadsheet that coverts weight to footage. It works really well for us. I HATED trying to guess how much NM we used.

Rob