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A guy in a van told me to stop stapling cable to the stud and use screw clips, and he was right
Had a rough one in a 1920s house near Richmond last month, three rework calls in two weeks because staples were pinching the coax and killing the signal. A retired installer in a beat up van pulled up while I was on the ladder and said, quit stapling to the stud, use screw clips with a little slack. I figured he was just old school, but the next 6 runs held perfect on the meter and the callbacks stopped. Cost me about $14 more per job for clips, which is nothing compared to driving back out there. Any of you still staple, or did you switch over too?
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the_fiona20d ago
Why would you keep stapling after that? Staples crush the cable and mess with the signal, that part is not even a debate. Screw clips give you a little room so the cable can breathe and nothing gets pinched when the studs move with the seasons. Fourteen bucks a job is nothing when one callback eats up your whole afternoon plus gas. I switched years ago and have not gone back once. Old guys know stuff because they already made the mistake you are about to make.
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