Exactly,
Why would anyone work for less than cost? As an employee I would have no problem just going at it assuming the pay rate was acceptable. If Directv wants to pay me to rewire their customers' houses that is great. As a contractor.....everything has a cost and nothing is free.
I gotta wonder at what level this copper wire thing originated. Is there actually a Directv management wonk that proposed requiring the CC stuff without compensation?
I haven't been able to even find a specification for the $.25 compression fittings. I hear it verbally from HSP folks but have never seen a written specification. I like the $.09 F fitting with the gel & "O" ring.
You could do a good thing if you would publish an official Directv installation specification. I would look for it in installation contracts. Never seen it yet.
Joe
In my office we dont have installer policies just the rates of common "custom work" rates, like pole mounts or wall fish, etc.
I know Joe that if you showed up with my house and tried to put anything other then a Compression fitting on my cable I have Employee accounts on the phones so fast your head would spin.
I buy Digicon compression fittings in a bag of 500 for about 17 cents a piece. That with o-ring....
Buttom line you come to my house with Hex crimps and ccs I just waste your time.
But I also learned if you want it done right do it your self. Dont ever trust an installer to do a job correctly as they dont get paid enough to care.
I know that I have a friend who works for Directv Home Services not using Compression connectors or not using solid copper is a write up. On the third it is there job.
Nothing is stoping any Directv Contractor from getting up and leaving. Again people can either work inside the system, or they can show them selves the door.
The first step is customer satification is not having to send a 2nd tech out there to fix the first tech job.
Again I feel like field techs should be paid per hour and not per job. But with a certian expectation to get x many jobs done a day.