4 Room Sky+ HD Install

areu4real?

*If you don't fancy reading all this, I basically need to know what connects to what when you get sky HD multi room*

Hi,

I am getting Sky in a few weeks. Will be a 4 room install (attic, front bedroom, back bedroom, sitting room) in a straighforward 3 bed semi with attic conversion. Getting 2 HD+ boxes (attic, sitting room), one+ box(back room), and one standard(front). Have active analogue phone and BB with BT.
Would like to have things ready for the install as its probably gonna be fairly awkward and I also want it looking neat. Can anyone give a quick description of whats involved in an install like this ie. equipment, wiring, connections? Where does the phone line come into it?
I was thinking of getting the wires all brought into the attic and dropping them down from there, but the back bedroom will be harder to reach as the storage runs along the eaves on both sides and laminate floors everywhere, so there'll be no burying them under the carpet. If the dish has to go to the back of the house, then the wires will have to trace back through the house to 3 front rooms on 3 different floors. Basically, I think lots of wires going into lots of places, then back to the dish, with a phone line thrown in there somewhere will get messy. The install is being done thruogh Sky themselves so I take it (or hope) I'll get a fairly professional job done. If I had an idea of what needs to happen I could plan it a lot better, get spaces clear, furniture moved or whatever
Appreciate any info at all
Cheers

eeloe

I hope you get a tidy installer...the guy that done my dads made a total hash of the place.....

cables all over the shop!

areu4real?

Yea, thats what I'm trying to avoid. I'd rather do some of the work myself for the sake of knowing it will be done with care

eeloe

If you attempt to do any of the cabling yourself...sky wont support you for tech support later as it wasn't installed by a registered sky engineer....

ASTRALSAT

each box will have a phone cable running to the nearest phone point usually stapled along the skirting boards around doors etc,
the HD & + boxes will have twin cable ct163 (double cable about the size of ordinary coax but flat) running to the dish.
The sky box will have one cable running back to the dish.

Sam Radford

eeloe wrote: »

If you attempt to do any of the cabling yourself...sky wont support you for tech support later as it wasn't installed by a registered sky engineer....

Yes they will because the Sky Installer will be delighted to find most of the work done and certainly won't tell anyone!

Sky installers are not permitted to enter an unboarded roof space or to drill through internal walls. I strongly recommend you install the cable yourself or get an independent to do it (with your prior agreement regarding the routing).

The dish has to face the satellite. Either on a south-facing wall or on a pole on a north-facing wall, looking over the roof. Or on a suitable side wall or on a pole in the garden.

areu4real?

Sam Radford wrote: »

the Sky Installer will be delighted to find most of the work done and certainly won't tell anyone!

That's what I was thinking. It's a Saturday so I wanna try make life ease for the guy.

ASTRALSAT wrote: »

each box will have a phone cable running to the nearest phone point usually stapled along the skirting boards around doors etc,
the HD & + boxes will have twin cable ct163 (double cable about the size of ordinary coax but flat) running to the dish.
The sky box will have one cable running back to the dish.

Thanks for that ASTRAL, very helpful info. I don't think I'm actually gonna wire it, but will make holes internally where I want the wires coming down or through partitions, saves him doing the work and will make the cabling routes I want much easier to explain. Appreciate the help. Fingers crossed this goes well, I pray it's worth the hassle for Discovery HD and the football comin back soon (kinda)