[TenTec] installing ladder line

[Stuart Rohre]

I regularly run parallel line and insulated ladder line across a metal 
window sash at right angles, with no problems.  But, I set a piece of 
pipe insulation under the sash bottom to provide an insualted feed thru 
point.

One side of pipe insulation is already slit, and it is simple to cut a 
slit in the other side for the line to pass and be held by gentle 
pressure of the window sash above.  A window lock added to the side of 
the sash railing allows one to maintain security of the window.  Stuff 
more pipe insulation between the panes of glass at the top of the partly 
raised sash to maintain a draft free window.

In dry weather, I have draped window line on bush limbs or tree limbs to 
take up excess line in FD installation, where I don't want to shorten 
the line.  We tie off the line with a string to the limb above, or to a 
tent brace above where we route the line.

Stuart
K5KVH