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> commercial has far stricter inspection and material requirements then residential. You're playing with a whole lot more angry pixies in a pipe.

Not only that, but the trades stick to their trades.

You don't get, for example, datacentre electricians rocking up pretenting they can install network cable to spec and running away having (if you are lucky) only done a continuity test on the cable they just installed.

Meanwhile every man and his dog, or even just the dog, will very happily turn up at your house and tell you they can install your CAT6 to spec for you when they've never seen a Fluke in their entire life.

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> You don't get, for example, datacentre electricians rocking up pretenting they can install network cable to spec and running away having (if you are lucky) only done a continuity test on the cable they just installed.

I frequently have my electricians pull and terminate network cable if it’s only one or a few (daisy-chained VAV controllers or a network drop for a BAS panel), if the customer needs a formal TIA-568 test then I’ll sub that out. My electricians are already pulling and terminating building automation cable, CAT 6 isn’t gonna stop em :)

Hey hot stuff. Same here. Hope you have a good day.

Oh awesome! I’m glad there are others in the industry around here :)

I’d like to learn more about PLCs and SCADA, but that scope of work usually falls on another contractor, we mostly provide installation for BAS systems that control HVAC and chilled/hot water plants.

I do some water treatment plant projects and there’s a local contractor that handles the PLC and SCADA stuff.

In a bunch of recent residential building I've seen the electricians "attempt" to install networking cables as it's a value add they can install for very little while the walls are still open.

Needless to say I've re-pulled a lot of those cables due to so many failures.

No instead in my experience its end clients being cheap bastards and having the electricians also pull fire alarm cable.

We had to redo and re-pull so many circuits in the last datacenter project.

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