What is this Green wire in our new construction?

[redcoat]

Hi,
 
Newbie here...
 
I am hoping I get to wire our new home in a couple of days for ethernet (Cat 6), right before drywall.
 
I had a look around today after the electrician had finished, and there is a line of green wire seemingly all around the house, inside, low down, going through all the studs...
 
Any ideas what it is?!

 

[redcoat]

actually, it is not like any wire I've seen before, a little translucent.  It doesn't seem to connect to anything, and when I peered inside one end of it, it appeared hollow.

 

[tmbrown97]

Good luck finding out what that is!  I first became aware of it when I saw these really weird almost lock-box looking things on the exterior of my home when I was buying it - I asked around everyone - realtors, home inspectors, etc - nobody knew what it was, so I looked up the patent numbers printed on the cover and found it was a pest control system.  Even asked my pest control guy and he'd never heard of it either.
 
I've since opened some walls in a couple places to run wires and came across it - in my home it's a blue tube that's only a few inches from the bottom plate.
 
Finally found someone who knew of it - he worked around a lot of new construction, and apparently their specific pest control guys come out and plug a special nozzle in and charge it up - keeps the bugs out without having to spray anything around the house.
 
Congrats on the new house!

 

[redcoat]

Seriously?!  Is this long term for use after we close too?

 

[sda]

Never heard of it before this.  Supposed to be for long term use.  Google "pest control tube" for more info.  Sounds like another gimmick - "kills bugs in the walls where they live and breed".  Or better yet - "call us to inject poison into your house".  (Check out the movie "Right At Your Door")  I've opened up plenty of walls and never found bugs in them.  Once I month I load up my backpack sprayer and hit the outside perimeter.

 

[tmbrown97]

yeah we've never done anything with our system - I had a pest control guy spraying the outside to keep the bugs at bay.