Hi, I am looking for recomendations for someone to install a satellite dish on the chimney and run cable to a few points in the house. I am based in Shankill, in a 2 story house. Any recomendations, and equally, any cowboys to avoid, would be much appreciated.
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Thanks for the tip, all suggestions welcome as I am new to this and would prefer to find out stuff like this before the job is done, rather than after.
SoylentGreen
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I contacted a person. He just wanted to install the dish and throw the cable over the roof on the outside rather than run it through the attic to the front of the house to the second point. This person was one of the main guys doing it.
He couldn't understand why I wanted him to chase the cables through the attic and down through the walls.
I have existing points/cables in place for the old analogue TV. Seems a waste that these cannot be used.
He couldn't understand why I wanted him to chase the cables through the attic and down through the walls.
I have existing points/cables in place for the old analogue TV. Seems a waste that these cannot be used.
Throwing the cable over the roof is a bit sloppy in my view. Bringing cables down through the walls can be tricky. A reasonable compromise, for me anyway, may be to bring cables from the dish (LNB) into and across the attic and outside again to run down along drainpipes and then back into the room required.
BlueSpud - have any of your neighbours sat dishes on their houses? You could try them for recommendations and check their cabling etc. Assume you are looking to get the "Free to Air" channels ? Few companies would do this for you, including the box installation / set up etc. If getting Sky, then they would have their own installers (as far as I know).
They use providers like KN Group, but their installers will always throw cables over the roof, tack them to surfaces, take the easy route. They blame insurance cover stating they are not allowed to go into attics or chase cables.
This makes sense in terms of potential damage to air tightness membranes, hitting pipes or cables, but my suspicious mind also wonders if the time required to do a well routed job is a significant factor. Electricians are very familiar with spending time routing cables properly, so you might find a local one to take this on.
Any of my neighbours that I know are on virgin or sky.
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Can you access the existing cabling from the attic? If so, use it.
The quality of this cable may not be as high as for satellite but in my experience, unless the cable runs are miles long, the signal won't suffer much degradation. It's certainly preferable to allowing someone to drill though your external walls to run the satellite cables through!
While you're doing it, I'd recommend you get a multiswitch and a cheap aerial in the attic for the Irish channels. The advantage being you can carry both satellite and terrestrial signals down the existing cabling (they operate at different frequencies so don't interfere with one another), giving you access to free to air channels from both sides of the Irish sea at each TV point.
Now there is a thought, thanks.
They will for a €50 tip.
- get the right guy and he'll put a saorview aerial up at the same time (you need to have the aerial )I hate cables running loose so preplanned my Sky install. I put pull cables in behind wall plaster board and built in wardrobes and such. I wanted dish on chimney and first installer arrived and did a I'm a union man and so tried to put the dish on the front wall of the house. Wife sent him packing so got a private Sky installer to put it on the chimney.
Which is technically illegal without planning permission. Mind you, on the chimney is too if the dish is above roof line, but little or no enforcement of that unless someone complains.
I plan to use 4 points in the house, and as per the suggestion here, use a lot of the existing cable, for both satellite and saorview. I was thinking of using this quad LNB
http://www.satworld.ie/inverto-pro-quad-terrestrial-lnb.html
and running a 5th cable back from the atic where I will put a saorview aerial.
Am I right in thinking that I can use this guy
http://www.satworld.ie/satellite-and-terrestrial-combiner-indoor.html
to split the signal to satellite and terretial feeds, and just connect to the satellite and terretial inputs on the box (via short cables of course). The box I plan to use is a Zgemma H7C.
https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/zgemma-h7c?filter_name=h7c
Am I right in my assumptions that this will work? Apologies if the question is basic, but I am new to this.
http://www.satworld.ie/inverto-pro-quad-terrestrial-lnb.html
and running a 5th cable back from the atic where I will put a saorview aerial.
Am I right in thinking that I can use this guy
http://www.satworld.ie/satellite-and-terrestrial-combiner-indoor.html
to split the signal to satellite and terretial feeds, and just connect to the satellite and terretial inputs on the box (via short cables of course). The box I plan to use is a Zgemma H7C.
https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/zgemma-h7c?filter_name=h7c
Am I right in my assumptions that this will work? Apologies if the question is basic, but I am new to this.
Does the LNB and combiner that I listed above do the trick?
Ok here's my read on it.
IMHO you are better off going for the H7S (2xsat and 1 Cable/Terrestrial tuner) as there are a lot more channels available on Sat than Saorview, so the probability of wishing to record while watching another channel would be higher on sat than Saorview.
Also, Do Not use combiners/splitters etc. with sat/terrestrial, they will only lead to grief !! Especially with what you want to do.
If as you say you wish to use 4 points in your house, get an octo LNB, run two sat cables (using twin RG6 cable) and 1 Saorview cable to each point (you may split the Saorview with a high quality splitter), this will allow you to use the zGemma to its best.
Plus you can place a box at each point, in the future, if you want, by doing it this way.
If you are doing it at all, may as well do it right first time.
PS.: While you're at it, run a LAN cable from your router to each point as well.
IMHO you are better off going for the H7S (2xsat and 1 Cable/Terrestrial tuner) as there are a lot more channels available on Sat than Saorview, so the probability of wishing to record while watching another channel would be higher on sat than Saorview.
Also, Do Not use combiners/splitters etc. with sat/terrestrial, they will only lead to grief !! Especially with what you want to do.
If as you say you wish to use 4 points in your house, get an octo LNB, run two sat cables (using twin RG6 cable) and 1 Saorview cable to each point (you may split the Saorview with a high quality splitter), this will allow you to use the zGemma to its best.
Plus you can place a box at each point, in the future, if you want, by doing it this way.
If you are doing it at all, may as well do it right first time.
PS.: While you're at it, run a LAN cable from your router to each point as well.
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