Cosmo is not happy right now.
I have owned this house for 10 years now. The housing association is doing renovations to the outsides of all the buildings (and charging an extra $114 per month extra assessment fee for 3 years to pay for it) and one of their new rules is that no cables can be run on the outside of the building. The cable running to my bedroom I found out, is run on the outside and needs to be run inside now. The spot in the wall is literally right over the incoming cable line, less than 10 feet away.
So I called Comcast to come to run the lines inside the house. I was told they'd be here at 8:00 AM Tuesday. I had to take off of work on Tuesday, and they showed up only 45 minutes later than I had been told. They basically looked at the house, and told me that they could not run the cables, which have to come in the basement and run up the one wall into the upstairs bedroom. I need an electrician to do that.
So I called an electrician to come to run the lines inside the house. I was told they'd be here between 8:00 AM and NOON. I had to take off of work again today, and they didn't show up at all. I called and they gave me an estimate over the phone. If they could have done that, then why did I take off work in the first place?? The estimate was for $3700. All of the TVs in my house don't add up to $3700. There is no way I'm paying nearly four grand just to watch TV in my bedroom. (ok, the estimate was for 3 rooms; but he told me that just wiring one room would only be a few hundred dollars less, so it wouldn't make sense just to do the one room anyway)
So now I have to take off again next week to have another electrician come out to give me another estimate.
Edit - Just got a call from the second electrician, their estimator is going to be done early today, and can come by here this afternoon. At least that's one less headache for me right now. I just hope that they can do the job withhin a budget I can afford.
I have owned this house for 10 years now. The housing association is doing renovations to the outsides of all the buildings (and charging an extra $114 per month extra assessment fee for 3 years to pay for it) and one of their new rules is that no cables can be run on the outside of the building. The cable running to my bedroom I found out, is run on the outside and needs to be run inside now. The spot in the wall is literally right over the incoming cable line, less than 10 feet away.
So I called Comcast to come to run the lines inside the house. I was told they'd be here at 8:00 AM Tuesday. I had to take off of work on Tuesday, and they showed up only 45 minutes later than I had been told. They basically looked at the house, and told me that they could not run the cables, which have to come in the basement and run up the one wall into the upstairs bedroom. I need an electrician to do that.
So I called an electrician to come to run the lines inside the house. I was told they'd be here between 8:00 AM and NOON. I had to take off of work again today, and they didn't show up at all. I called and they gave me an estimate over the phone. If they could have done that, then why did I take off work in the first place?? The estimate was for $3700. All of the TVs in my house don't add up to $3700. There is no way I'm paying nearly four grand just to watch TV in my bedroom. (ok, the estimate was for 3 rooms; but he told me that just wiring one room would only be a few hundred dollars less, so it wouldn't make sense just to do the one room anyway)
So now I have to take off again next week to have another electrician come out to give me another estimate.
Edit - Just got a call from the second electrician, their estimator is going to be done early today, and can come by here this afternoon. At least that's one less headache for me right now. I just hope that they can do the job withhin a budget I can afford.
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Rent a long drill - drill a hole through the wall, run the wire in, putty the hell outa it on the outside and then run along the baseboard to your bedroom.
Nuthin to it