First Dish install

irish2011

Hi all so thinking of getting sky installed but just have a few questions

im installing it at my home address which is a 2 storey house but the dish will probably be below the roof to get the signal, but does the cable from the dish to your tv have to go through your attic?

Its just were getting the upstairs done up soon so no point installing it then to get it removed so wondering can the cable come down the side of your house and maybe in the window for now as dont want it upstairs or in the attic?

Thanks

NIMAN

Most houses built in the last decade or so usually have a plastic conduit from the attic/roofspace to a plug in the wall where your TV should be.

MEans the installer will take the cable under a roof tile, into the attic and you will see very very little of it. Allows for a very neat job.

Thats my experience of it. But I have seen some lazy installers just run it down the front of the house and drill a hole under your living room window into your TV. No excuse for a job like that, so don't accept it.

irish2011

thanks for the reply, yeah you see the house is about 50years old so we wouldnt mind them doing that just aslong as not without tv, if you tell the engineer to do that, can they?

Thanks

Cantona's Collars

The cables from my dish are hidden behind the downpipe from the chutes on the roof and are pretty much invisible.Get the installer to do something similar for you if possible.

Sky installers won't go into attics due to H & S regulations.

irish2011

yeah thats all i wanted to know, save them coming out and telling me they couldnt do it.

where did they put the cable in through then? through the wall or window?

Thanks

Cantona's Collars

irish2011 wrote: »

yeah thats all i wanted to know, save them coming out and telling me they couldnt do it.

where did they put the cable in through then? through the wall or window?

Thanks

He'll drill through the wall,only an idiot will try & drill through a window frame.

johnwest288

NIMAN wrote: »

Most houses built in the last decade or so usually have a plastic conduit from the attic/roofspace to a plug in the wall where your TV should be.

MEans the installer will take the cable under a roof tile, into the attic and you will see very very little of it. Allows for a very neat job.

Thats my experience of it. But I have seen some lazy installers just run it down the front of the house and drill a hole under your living room window into your TV. No excuse for a job like that, so don't accept it.

Hi Niman I recently got sky in and I live in a red brick house. The sky engineer ran WHITE cable down the front of the house across the red brick it looks frickin awful I assumed he would use the TV box at the side of the house that NTL had used. He went right across the red brick with this white cable and then drilled into the wall beside the tv. There allready was an NTL box connected there with a wall socket. which he could or should have used am i right?

Cantona's Collars

johnwest288 wrote: »

Hi Niman I recently got sky in and I live in a red brick house. The sky engineer ran WHITE cable down the front of the house across the red brick it looks frickin awful I assumed he would use the TV box at the side of the house that NTL had used. He went right across the red brick with this white cable and then drilled into the wall beside the tv. There allready was an NTL box connected there with a wall socket. which he could or should have used am i right?

He's not allowed to use the UPC connections or wall box,they are property of UPC.
Still,he should have used a bit of cop on before putting up the dish,a bit of forethought can save a lot of grief.

steveon

NIMAN wrote: »

Most houses built in the last decade or so usually have a plastic conduit from the attic/roofspace to a plug in the wall where your TV should be.

MEans the installer will take the cable under a roof tile, into the attic and you will see very very little of it. Allows for a very neat job.

Thats my experience of it. But I have seen some lazy installers just run it down the front of the house and drill a hole under your living room window into your TV. No excuse for a job like that, so don't accept it.

Very few houses unless one off houses have conduit that is easily accessed or big enough to take 2 cables from the attic down 2storeys, it is not due to laziness that installers do not use internal cabling, it is sometimes because there is only one cable when 2 are needed or its difficult to get cabling into attic spaces, alot of houses now have attics converted and its impossible to get to where the cables were originally ran 2.

NIMAN

steveon wrote: »

Very few houses unless one off houses have conduit that is easily accessed or big enough to take 2 cables from the attic down 2storeys, it is not due to laziness that installers do not use internal cabling, it is sometimes because there is only one cable when 2 are needed or its difficult to get cabling into attic spaces, alot of houses now have attics converted and its impossible to get to where the cables were originally ran 2.

I have a house in an estate of 3 bed semis and we have conduit coming to the back of the TV location. Built in 2000.

steveon

NIMAN wrote: »

I have a house in an estate of 3 bed semis and we have conduit coming to the back of the TV location. Built in 2000.

Glad to hear uyr estate does but not all do...and you shouldnt take it as standard as it isnt, move houses cables do not go straight up from the tv point and often go across the floor and up near the chimney and unless you can be 100% that the conduit rtuns the entire lenght from sitting room to attic pulling the cable or attaching a second can snap the first...and where does that leave you...

As I said some are done properly but its a rarity...which is a shame...I always recommend a minimum of 3 but perferabkly more cables to the main point as well as cat5.

NIMAN

I suppose a lot of developers couldnt build houses properly, so to expect them to install adequate cabling provisions might be a step too far ...

steveon

Exactly my point but in a lot of cases the cables come up in the centre of the house along with everything else, piping etc...and they couldnt care less as no1 would no any better and makes it imposible to get another cable down unless running it externally which in turn has runined many a house.