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Wires Vomiting Out of Cabinet
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Clean Documentation
A Disaster Zone
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Major Overhaul After Flood
Old-Fashioned Cleanup
Phoning it In
Plastic Surgery Makeover
Richest Man in California
What's Wrong With This Picture?
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Wires Vomiting Out of Cabinet

This labor-intensive rewiring of whole-house systems was “a big risk” business-wise for Custom Media owner Aaron Cantrell.

When Aaron Cantrell did get out to the job, he found “wiring just vomiting out of the cabinet.” There were splitters and DB attenuators with knobs, “stuff made in 1973, before I was even born,” Cantrell says.

There were “outs going out and ins going in. “We probably had to take 90 percent of the junk out of there. There was [wiring] he wasn’t using at all.”

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