The difficulties of running new lines

In the southern part of town there are numerous new additions consisting of fairly large houses.   They are nice, I'll give them that, but they are all the same. After walking through around four from the same neighborhood, and the floor plans repeat.

I enter in after the walls are all done, and the televisions are on site (hopefully). However behind every wall plate, the electricians left the bare line tucked in the plastic box in the wall without a fitting on it. So in each of the 20+ outlets I have to pull off plates, attempt to pull the cable from behind the electrical box with damaging it, and then put a fitting on it. This is standard for new builds, but it gives an insight that electricians don't really take into consideration what the cable guy needs done with the wires. Why have an electrical box? All it does is make it more difficult to replace the line if/when the electrician puts a staple in it.

Well one such house had numerous techs to it over the course of 2 years. They put in amps, took them out, swapped fittings, and replaced boxes, but there was always tiling on the tvs. The reason took me very little time to figure out. The main drop from outside leading into the attic--good signal outside, bad signal inside. Duh, replace the drop! Why didn't anyone else do this?

Because to do so would violate many of the rules of the HOA and the the company. 2 years, numerous techs, and everyone attempted something other than the fix because they didn't want to deal with the horrible situation.

Fuck it, I told the customer whats up.

Beautiful neighborhood, and the only way to get it to the upper story was to run it over the gutter, over the shingles and up to the slats that lead into the upper attic. The only way into the upper attic requires a gymnastic move to duck under the heater drain pipes, while crawling along rafters up a slant. Once past that area the upper attic opens into a space large enough to throw a football back and forth in safely. 

I had to let my manager know about the over the shingles/gutter running of a cord because it is atrocious, and as such I got to get a buddy to come out and verify that was the best course. We hung out, ran the cord, and bullshitted afterwards talking before going to our next jobs. 

My back was sore for a couple days due to the funny bending under the heating pipe.