Wrong!  Wrong!  Wrong!!!

Have you ever seen a cable jack at the same location as the electric outlet?  This is so very wrong – but why do we see it everywhere?

It looks cool!  Hey, we can hang a TV and plug it in to the outlet and cable!  Wow ~ how neat!

But think about this – where do you put your cable box?  Back in the day we could plug coax right into the back of the old CRT TV – but times have changed.  We want HD!  We use HDMI!  We have gaming systems, DVD players, and computers hook up – TV is not just for cable anymore.

Recently, we saw a previously pre-wired home with 3 electrical outlets with cable jacks about 3-4 feet from the ceiling.  An electrician once confessed that he does it this way because it’s easier to reach from the attic – the outlets will go as far as his arm can reach.

It’s funny – we’ve explained this to builders, electricians, contractors, realtors and designers.  They all get the same dumfounded look on their face.  Sometimes you can see that they just don’t get it, but when they understand the problems this causes, the realization becomes a life lesson -  to the point that they start pointing out faulty pre-wires to clients in hope of obtaining discounts for re-wiring the pre-wiring.