Wire fishing tips
My company is doing a fire alarm installation for a church expansion (you probably know where this is going.)
All of the "contractors" are essentially non-licensed handymen who go to this church. The "electrician" does concrete work for his main gig.
The job scope states that we are to use the electricians boxes and "conduit" to run our wire. Issue is, each and every box uses a 1/2" seal-tight 90° elbow into flex seal (not secured or fastened in the ceiling in any way shape or form) to all other boxes. With the fittings, we're already fighting 180° worth of bends without factoring in the endless coiling and spirals of the flex seal in the ceilings.
Not to mention, we're missing 8 boxes for devices on the prints that the "electricians" forgot to install. We're missing several smokes, a couple NAC devices, and they also completely forgot to put boxes in for any pull stations. All walls and ceilings are already up.
Obviously, this job is an utter shit show, and I can't count the violations on 7 hands, but do you guys have any tips for actually running the wire through this shit? We've tried steel and fiberglass fish tapes, pull string, even broke out the shop vac for the ol' string suck method. Even tried using wire lube, and we can't fish these damn wires. We've been pulled off of the job for now for obvious reasons, but I assume we'll be back there eventually.