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Guy in Tampa talked me out of stapling through the insulation, saved me a callback
I was running a drop in a Tampa apartment last month and started stapling the cable tight against a joist, right through the insulation jacket. An older installer named Ray stopped me and said "you just made a future short you can't see yet." He showed me where a staple had nicked the shielding on a line from a job 8 months back and it was causing intermittent signal loss the whole time. We reran my drop with a looser staple pattern and left a little slack at each point, and it passed the test clean. How tight are you guys stapling on interior runs, because I think I was doing it wrong for a while.
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the_tara10d ago
Man, that "future short you can't see yet" line is the whole game right there. I've pulled out staples that looked fine on the outside but the shield was nicked just enough to let water and heat do their thing over a summer. Tampa is the worst for it too, all that humidity working on a tiny cut until the signal starts dropping every afternoon when the attic heats up. Loose pattern with a little belly in the cable is the move, it lets the jacket ride the staple instead of getting crushed. Ray probably saved you three callbacks and a bad name in that building.
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