Found out the average house has over 400 feet of coax hidden in the walls

I was reading an old trade magazine at a dentist's office in Cincinnati last Tuesday, flipping through while waiting. There was this tiny article from a cable company study, and it said the average single family home built after 1990 has about 420 feet of coaxial cable run through it. I almost laughed out loud. That's longer than a football field! I've been in attics and crawlspaces for 12 years and never stopped to add it all up. It makes sense when you think about all the rooms with outlets, plus the runs to the demarc, but seeing that number was wild. It's no wonder some of those old splitters are so buried you need a map. Has anyone else ever seen a stat that made you look at a routine job totally differently?

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park.joseph18d ago

Buried splitters needing a map" is so real. I once spent an hour tracing one line through a finished basement ceiling.

keith94317d ago

Try a toner probe next time, @park.joseph.