I have a manufactured home (2001 vintage) sitting on a crawlspace. (I.e. it has mortared cinderblocks around it rather than skirting.) The home has a vapor barrier attached to the underside between it and the crawlspace. I want to run some ethernet cabling through the crawlspace. I'm planning to use the direct burial stuff and either just let it sit or bury it in the dirt floor of the crawlspace. I'm still working on building a drain to keep the crawlspace dry (I just bought the home and the previous owner saw no need to drain the crawlspace) so I want the vapor barrier to stay intact. Is there any way to run cable through the barrier and seal around it so that it's not letting moisture or cold air through?
Running cable through vapor barrier
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Best Answer
Daniel Griscom said (in a comment):
I agree with Daniel, but I would use RTV (room temperature Vulcanization) to seal the hole as tape usually fails with wires in my experience.