charlie tuna
Senior Member
- Location
- Florida
Re: Undercarpet cable
we did a twenty five story bank building and used thousands of feet of this stuff. everything we used was t & b. it came in all necessary circuit configurations--two ciruit-three circuit--dedicated neutrals. also phone--but not data and i doubt you could now get cat-5???? it was very expensive! so expensive that we found out it was actually cheaper for us to install a poke-thru(including the coring) for isolated outlets than flat wire. we were only allowed to use it where they used "carpet squares" so that it was accessible! i have one gang box full of this stuff and i inventoried it years ago -- over $6,000. in material costs! a plumber forgot to sweat a 1/2" fitting correctly while adding a bar sink on the twenty-fifth floor --- it broke loose over the weekend and flooded every floor down to eight --- some of the stuff just tripped the breaker, but alot of it shorted out and required replacement. i have not seen any of it for years! and it doesn't like high heals -- it would blow up under desks where the girl would rest the edge of her high heal shoe. scare the he!! out of them!
we did a twenty five story bank building and used thousands of feet of this stuff. everything we used was t & b. it came in all necessary circuit configurations--two ciruit-three circuit--dedicated neutrals. also phone--but not data and i doubt you could now get cat-5???? it was very expensive! so expensive that we found out it was actually cheaper for us to install a poke-thru(including the coring) for isolated outlets than flat wire. we were only allowed to use it where they used "carpet squares" so that it was accessible! i have one gang box full of this stuff and i inventoried it years ago -- over $6,000. in material costs! a plumber forgot to sweat a 1/2" fitting correctly while adding a bar sink on the twenty-fifth floor --- it broke loose over the weekend and flooded every floor down to eight --- some of the stuff just tripped the breaker, but alot of it shorted out and required replacement. i have not seen any of it for years! and it doesn't like high heals -- it would blow up under desks where the girl would rest the edge of her high heal shoe. scare the he!! out of them!
