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Just finished a job at a big old church in St. Louis that taught me a hard lesson
Honestly, I was wiring a motion sensor in the main hall last week and thought I had a clean run. I zip-tied everything neat to a wooden beam, feeling pretty good about it. Then the head pastor walked by and asked if the wires would bother the bats. I had no clue what he was talking about. Turns out, a small colony lives up in the rafters and they're a protected species there. I had to redo the whole run, about 80 feet of cable, to keep it away from their roost area. It added a full day to the job, but it was worth it. Now I always ask about wildlife, pets, or anything unusual that lives in a building before I start running wire. Has anyone else run into something like that, where an animal changed your plan?
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the_zara1mo ago
Had a raccoon in a chimney once.
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We had a family of squirrels nesting in an attic space where I needed to run a new phone line. I learned to ask about any animals right at the start of a walk-through now. It saves so much trouble later. For that job, we had to wait two weeks for a wildlife service to move them humanely before we could even start. The extra questions up front have become a standard part of my planning.
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