Check out 10 reasons to use our services, from improving your view, to reducing microplastics, to getting a better exterior paint job.
10 Reasons Why
1. Improve Curb Appeal & Property Values
Your house will look more attractive without the clutter of those ugly, black wires, especially since many of them are probably unneeded. Overhead wires are the clutter you never notice until they are gone. After removing those unneeded overhead wires, you will be surprised at how much better your home looks.
Anything that improves the views of your home or from your home has a direct, positive impact on its resale value. This is why removing all those ugly wires from your home before you sell is so important.
Would you put your home on the market without cutting the lawn, or washing the windows? Removing all the old telecom wires has just the same visual impact, even more. The difference is that dramatic.
2. Better Exterior Paint Job
Excess wires can increase the time spent, cost, and the quality of your paint job. Painters need to spend extra time dealing with the wires and service boxes attached to your house. This is especially frustrating if you aren’t even using those wires and boxes! Also, overhead wires can keep painters from reaching portions of your house, which means that some nooks and crannies of your home may not get a fresh coat of paint.
When you call us to remove all of the excess cable and boxes from your house, you will save money on your painting project and get a better result.
3. Reduce Micro-Plastic Pollution
The outside layer, or jacket, of Ethernet, Coaxial, and Fiber Optic cables consists of one or more of a wide variety of chemical compounds, such as Polyvinyl chloride (PVC), Polystyrene, Polyurethane, Polyamide, Teflon, and many types of Polyethylene. Most of these compounds were created to be UV resistant, but like all compounds created to be UV resistant, that resistance deteriorates over time.
This means over time, UV deteriorates the outside layer on old cables and wires, which causes microplastics to spew into the air and then into our waterways.
By eliminating unneeded telecom wires, we reduce the amount of microplastics in our environment and their negative impact on our health, the health of other beings, and our planet.
4. Lower Lead Pollution
If you have a phone line that was installed before about 1960, it is likely sheathed in lead. From the late 1800s to the 1960s, it was common practice to shield the copper wires inside telephone cables from electromagnetic interference by sheathing the cables in lead. Lead was used because of its durability, flexibility, and resistance to corrosion, making it ideal for protecting the copper wires inside.
According to Oregon State University and other institutions, research suggests that rain is leaching lead from these old lead-sheathed overhead (and underground) telephone lines, contaminating soil and other surfaces below them. If you still use a DSL internet connection, be aware that DSL utilizes old copper telephone lines to transfer digital data, including internet downloads and uploads and VoIP calls.
By eliminating old phone lines, you will help reduce lead pollution, which is particularly harmful to children.
5. Make Home Maintenance Tasks Safer & Easier
Maneuvering a ladder around your home and garden to clean gutters or home repairs is tricky enough; add the need to avoid low-hanging wires and it can get downright dangerous.
Low-hanging wires can also impact what you can do in your yard. One of our customers could not set up a trampoline due to several low-hanging and unneeded Internet cables.
6. Increase Tree Pruning Safety and Ease
When wires run through a tree’s branches, pruning becomes more complicated and possibly dangerous. Removing unneeded telecom wires will make pruning tasks easier and safer. If you hire someone to prune your tree, it could also make the job cheaper since the arborist won’t need to deal with wires, or at least have fewer wires to deal with.
In addition, removing unnecessary wires will increase a tree’s health. Wires can interfere with a tree’s growth or potentially damage it.
7. Minimize Visual Clutter and Pollution
Your environment has a direct impact on your emotional well-being. The influence of your environment isn’t just about aesthetics. We often become so used to our surroundings that we stop consciously noticing them. The stack of paperwork on your desk or the unfinished paint job can fade into the background after a few days or weeks. This is due to a phenomenon called habituation or attentional blindness.
Researchers have been studying the impact of physical spaces on health for decades. Environmental psychologist Roger Ulrich conducted a well-known study on how the environment affects recovery. He found that patients recovering from gallbladder surgery healed faster when their hospital room had a view of trees compared to those whose windows faced a brick wall.
Research has shown that just because you’re not actively aware of your surroundings doesn’t mean they’re not affecting your mental health. For instance, living in cluttered environments can trigger the release of cortisol, the stress hormone. Clutter has also been linked to decreased executive functioning, procrastination, reduced productivity, and emotional exhaustion.
Overhead telecom wire is a type of clutter or visual pollution that you don’t notice, until you remove it. Your home and neighborhood should be a place of refuge. Unneeded overhead wires disrupt the tranquility of your home and garden. There is something stressful about ugly, black wires hanging over us. They feel like a heavyweight bearing down upon our spirit and peace of mind.
There is no reason to have multiple black cables running from your house to the street, hanging over your garden, when you may have only 1 telecom wire in use.
8. Telecom Companies Don’t Remove Wires
Telecom companies install wires, but they will rarely remove them. If you ask them to, you will often be told that they won’t remove them because they were installed by another company, even when that original company has merged with the current company.
Occasionally, we hear of a success story. However, more often, we hear from homeowners who have unsuccessfully spent a great deal of time and energy trying to get their old telecom company to remove their wires.
9. Beautify Your View & the Seattle Skyline – One House At A Time
An oppressive tangle of ugly, black, overhead wires is gradually choking off our spectacular Seattle views.
Seattle Magazine can use Photoshop to “disappear” all the wires from our Seattle Skyline. Unfortunately, those of us who live here cannot Photoshop all the overhead wire pollution from our lives.
By removing unneeded telecom wires, you improve your views, your neighbors’ views, and the environment. Over time, as we eliminate abandoned, ugly, black wires, Seattle’s skyline will no longer need Photoshop to look beautiful again. Our beautiful city will look young again.
10. Support a Local & Family Owned Business
Wire Free Sky is a local Seattle business run by a wife-and-husband team, along with a sister, a daughter, and a few almost-like family folks.
It all started one day when my husband and I suddenly realized that 8 of the 13 wires obstructing our views were not being used. We removed all 8 dead and unneeded wires. Instantly, our home, sky, and views vastly improved.
We wanted to share that experience with everyone. Our goal is to provide you with excellent customer service while improving the environment for everyone.
Together, we can create a more wire free sky!
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