DirecTv install problems rant

Loganwayne

Loganwayne

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We just remodeled a basement, when the home owner came into town he had the tv people come run the wires..... Next thing you know his basement is getting water coming in anytime water goes down a drain. Pulled part of the ceiling down and found this
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. Glad he center punched a hole threw the main drain line. Home owner is trying to get them to cover the repair bills. I'm just glad it wasn't my fault. Here is a picture of the hole we made so far and it's gonna have to get a good bit bigger
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hence why I never, ever, EVER let anybody else install things in my house if I can at all help it.
 
Always tell everyone if there is a satellite installer at your house be there and watch everything they do. Otherwise you will end up with the most hack shit imaginable. Most of them are capable of doing a decent job, but it's not going to happen unless someone is there making sure of it.
 
braxton357 said:
Always tell everyone if there is a satellite installer at your house be there and watch everything they do. Otherwise you will end up with the most hack shit imaginable. Most of them are capable of doing a decent job, but it's not going to happen unless someone is there making sure of it.
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While I was deployed to Afghanistan my wife had an install done on the second floor at a house we used to have. When we were moving I moved a dresser and saw that the installer literally drilled through the outside wall into the spare bedroom. He climbed up on the roof of the porch took a big f'ing drill and went through the entire wall into the bedroom. It was hidden by a big dresser and was done from a concealed spot above the porch so I didn't see it until we moved. You could shoot deer from the hole he made, he didn't even dress it up, total BS. I love Direct TV but the installers are contractors so you have to keep an eye on them.
 
I did a stint w cabletv installing and remember when a guy in Durham drilled a hole through a brick wall and apparently unknowingly hit a steel beam inside the wall. He evedently kept trying to punch through till he melted the tip off his masonry bit, so he drilled another hole and finished the install. the homeowner met him and left afterwards and a few hours later the molten hot drillbit tip caught the house on fire and burned it up!
 
Take a close look at this picture and tell me what's wrong....
 

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lockedup5 said:
no TV?
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Na, I don't believe in the whole TV in the bedroom thing. I refuse to put one in there. Bedroom's for love makin and sleeping, no need for a TV there.

Check the left side of the photo, and then the right on the floor. Didn't notice this until the other day, just makes me shake my head. Worst part, they drilled through the BRICK on the outside to run this line, even though there is a crawl space throughout the entire house.
 
lockedup5 said:
I noticed the cable came in opposite of the power but it doesn't matter if you don't have a tv there.:flipoff2:
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To the right of the power outlet is an in wall coaxial outlet. To the right side of the picture is a cable they put in by drilling through the outside wall and into the house...
 
Not to mention it comes thru the base board, that's not very bright. I see all kinds of shotty work some people do. They are just doing the bare minimum to get a paycheck and do not care about doing a job properly. It disgust me, this is what's wrong with my own generation, and the next generation will be worse I'm sure.
 
77GreenMachine said:
Not to mention it comes thru the base board, that's not very bright. I see all kinds of shotty work some people do. They are just doing the bare minimum to get a paycheck and do not care about doing a job properly. It disgust me, this is what's wrong with my own generation, and the next generation will be worse I'm sure.
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Yup. This house was built in 1940, I know that baseboard is original, pisses me off. Absolutely no reason to do it besides being lazy. The crawl space is throughout the entire house. Hell, the hole for it is directly above the crawl space door.

RatLabGuy said:
we have that same rug. From wally world IIRC.
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Yup. Nice rugs actually.
 
If they would have used the crawlspace I'd bet they would have poked the coax through a brick vent. Seen that hundreds of times. Always hated that.
 
I noticed the outlets, but thought the left one was phone. So I had to question the distance to the electrical recep. And I didn't know you were a shoe salesman:lol:
Baseboard didn't concern me too much; previous owner of my house, had Time Warner cable in 3 rooms. Full basement, so they drilled through the hardwood floors.
I have switched between Direct & Dish 3 times. Three different sat.s drilled into my [used to be new] roof. The last 2 installers, swear the previous did it wrong, by Not drilling/screwing into a joist. Well not 1 of them has hit the joist!
Last time I couldn't keep a signal, the "tech" guy showed up, said it was mounted to plywood, between the joist, & the section it mounted to,had pulled loose, from the rafter! F----- up my roof. I was demanding a chimney mount, that he swears the can no longer do=per Co. policy/safety. He Did come up with a under-eve mount, mounts to the facer board,at the joist. Wonder How long, they've had that? That sucker IS, a mount! As long as they hit the joist. Every install, I've had, the Companies, have had to send a Technician back, to Correct, what the "installer" did. Seems to me, they'd come out ahead, to only send qualified Techs.:shaking:
 
rodney eppes said:
Full basement, so they drilled through the hardwood floors.
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That shit drives me crazy.
The last house we owned in NC had grogeous old hardwood floors, original to the home.
The PO for whatever reason had covered w/ carpet. When we ripped it out to expose the floors (which were still in perfect shape - NO work needed on my part!) I was horrified to see no less than 3 probably 3/4" holes all within an 8' span on one wall. Why the F would they drill such giant holes? Come on. And they didn't even bother to get them nice and close to the baseboard, they stuck out like 3" from the wall so it was impossible to hide w/ moulding.

I refuse to let those guys in my house.

but I guess you get what you pay for, people want free install w/ service hookup so its not like they're paid much for the work, no incentive to do it "right.
 
To the PO - something I don't get here.
If he was having the basement done, why didn't they some run the wiring while everything was exposed?
 
Macdaddy4738 said:
Take a close look at this picture and tell me what's wrong....
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I have the tv wires ran threw the walls like that so I could use cable or dish or whatever I even added a second one in the living room when DVR came out (apparently it takes two cables) anyways the installer came and said he couldn't use them he wasn't sure they would work.... I told him to either leave or run it my way and then if it didn't work he could start drilling holes. He was pissed when everything I had done worked like it should.
 
Low voltage conduit is practically free.
 
In the 80s when I did some cable TV installs cable companies were VERY busy installing the brand new cable service. It was standard procedure to drill straight through exterior walls or up from the crawlspace ( through floors ) and seal by shoving a T shaped grommet onto the cable and gobbing the inside of the T w silicone, and jamming it into the drilled hole, that's what the "free" install covered for as many outlets as you wanted. If you wanted an electical code install w a wall outlet you had to have an electrician install that or pay a fee ($15-50) for each outlet to fish a wall. Most opted for the "free" type cable routing.
 
Spent a couple years installing home burg systems and cable/phone/data...probably drilled in somewhere around 1500 homes in the greater Charlotte area. Then spent another 4 or so years managing 6-20 installers...

Home damage happens.

Actually the reason most cable and DirecTV installers will not fish a wall and pop through floors or exteriors is you never know what jack leg has done what inside a wall.
I've seen some crazy scary shit.

Hitting drain lines sucks because you often dont know they are hit at first...hitting supply lines on the other hand...well that one is obvious quick. Always fun when you ask a homeowner where their master water shut off is and they look at you like a cow looking at a new gate.

Had an guy working for me once drill through the main feed of a house.
Ranch/Crawl. Drilling front door for an alarm contact. Did everything right but when he pulled his flex bit up only had the shaft no head and it smelled burned. Meter base on one end of the house panel on opposite end. a triple 1/0 aluminum (yep for the electricity heads a 1/0,1/0,1/0 service cable on a 200A service) was stapled up against the floor boards and covered by the insulation.
 
Ron said:
a triple 1/0 aluminum (yep for the electricity heads a 1/0,1/0,1/0 service cable on a 200A service) was stapled up against the floor boards and covered by the insulation.
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yikes
 
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