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Originally Posted by ken0042
So here comes the next question- I'm going to assume they want some silly amount for cat5/RG6 cable runs. Anybody have any luck in convincing the builer to let them do it themselves before the drywall goes up?
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Typically not; they have insurance reasons and such for not allowing it. Sometimes they'll look the other way, sometimes not.
When I did it they had a company that did all the media and network wiring, and I went there separately to set it all up (kind of like going to Trail to pick up the appliances or the lighting place to pick out the lighting), their pricing for new networks drops wasn't unreasonable.. it wasn't until I got into speakers or a wiring closet or other more advanced stuff that their pricing got crazy.
Watch out too, they'll try and sell you the wiring panel/closet for $1000 or something, and they might say that without it you won't know what cable is where... which could be true. In 3 different builds, in one they just left the cables hanging, so I had to figure out which one was which (which is easy if you buy a toner tool from Home Depot). In another all the wires were cleanly labeled even though they said they wouldn't. In a third they labeled them but the labels were completely unreadable, so I had to use a toner to figure out which was which.