Wiring doors in cold weather

G. Morgan · 2005-11-20T05:15:48+00:00

Does anyone have a good technique for minimizing cold air coming into the housewhile wiring a retro? I usually leave the cable box inside the doorway when I'min the attic to prevent the door from closing on the wire, however when it'sreally cold out that's too much of a gap to let air in. I guess I could leavethe wire box outside and put something in the door on both sides to keep it fromopening and closing.

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Crash Gordon 20 years ago

I'm still roughin' jobs in shorts and tee shirt..in Nov. gotta love it. My orange tree is turning orange. Da boids is singin' Life id gud. Goo goo ka choo.

| > It gets cold in Texas? | | Cold is a relative term | | It gets down to maybe 30 and snows 1 or 2 days. To many here that doesn't | sound very cold however when you are cooked at 100+ almost every day from | June to early Sept that 30 degrees feels damn cold. And this is from someone | who came from Indiana :) | |

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alarman 20 years ago

Gettin' cold here, down to 58 this morning. Brrrrr...Time to break out the Pendletons. js

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Bill 20 years ago

58 is cold? Around here in the spring when it warms up to 58/60 and is a sunny day, it is the "beginning of summer" and guys will walk around with their shirts off! (After a long winter and many months of no sunshine, lots of rain, etc.)

I'll put on a light coat when it is in the low 50's, above that just T-shirt.

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JoeRaisin 20 years ago

We were back up in the 40's this weekend but it was a bit nippy today and they are calling for more snow tonight and the rest of the week.

Had my thermos of hot soup for lunch and that made the prewire of the log home bearable...

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Crash Gordon 20 years ago

Sometimes the night time temps plunge to 70...time to break ou the sweatshirt. S*it that's about the heavest jacket I own..sweatshirt and a baseball jacket...and two pairs of long pants.

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petem 20 years ago

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In the last days it was around 0 to minus 3 (Celsius) or 32 F to 29 F and I am still just wearing a small wool jacket over my shirt on the job..

the only time I took my coat was to adjust a long range card reader close to a fence in a very large field,were winds was very intense... I cant stand hot days..(especially if there is a high humidity level.. But cold, bring in it on!,I remember skiing with nothing on my head (well I did had long hair ;-) ) at minus 35 (around -5 F) at the Mt-Orford resort..almost no one was on the slop,damn it was fun!(had to take a few "caribou" shot every 2 or 3 descent...

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robertlbass 20 years ago

If the issue is minimizing the time the door is open so the client's house doesn't get cold try this. Pull the wire from the attic area above the door to the panel. Leave a few extra feet of cable above the door. Then drill the door frame and run a short (maybe 6' long) lead up to the attic. Connect the contact to the short lead. Close the door and go up to make the final connection in the attic. It's more of a PITA because you have to make an extra splice and an extra trip to the attic but the door only stays open for 2-3 minutes as opposed to 15 minutes or more.

Regards, Robert L Bass

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Frank Olson 20 years ago

So now you have a connection *in an attic* you might wind up having to trouble-shoot at some time (not to mention the extra time you have to spend up there making a splice)... The best method is to run the wire

*from the panel*. Drill up/down from the door, pull the wire through, attach your contact and "Bob's your Uncle". The time it takes to do this equals the time it takes to:

"Leave a few extra feet of cable above the door. Then drill the door frame and run a short (maybe 6' long) lead up to the attic. Connect the contact to the short lead."

And eliminates another crawl into the attic/crawlspace to:

"Close the door and go up to make the final connection in the attic".

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mikey 20 years ago

That's most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Have you actually done that? A needless splice in an impossible location too.

This is a silly thread, who started this? Santa at the North Pole? It's awful up here, below freezing and we'll still stand in open front doors saying goodbye for up 15 minutes all the time. It does the air in the house good, you don't need a heat exchanger, plants like it almost as much as beer, and females become ah, perkier.

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Frank Olson 20 years ago

ROFL!!!

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petem 20 years ago

having a splice in the attic....now that just prove you never did a good installation in your life... for sure a monkey can do the job as good as you....

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