Cableing for Multi-room

Gillo

Right I know it might seem like a stupid question, but...

I've just moved into a house which is set up for multi-room, the dish is in at the back of the house and two cables coming into the house through the kitchen at the same spot. The first cable plug's into a box in the kitchen, the second takes the exact same route across the room, then goes into a cavity in the wall and run's upstairs to the sitting room, where it reappears (and plugs into a second TV).

I want to get Sky Plus in the sitting room and have no problem running a second cable down through the cavity (appearently Sky + needs two cables), but someone told me that appearently with some new "health & saftey" regulation the cable must enter the house in the room it is going to be used in, so I can't effective get sky + without running the cable right over the roof??

Also, assuming that it's ok to just run the cable down the cavity in the wall, do I need any particular type of cable considering that it will be going outdoors??

Thanks, in advance.

mossym

never hard that health and safety rule, my hose is only 4 months old and i ahve all cables coming into the attic.

get some ct100 cable and you'll be sorted.

byte

There will be no problem running a new cable alongside the existing one.

And CT100 cable or equivalent (copper braid on copper tape), as mossym said.