Wiring for tv points

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Hi, I have a question regarding tv points and in particular wiring. I am in the process of renovating a house and am looking to carry out as much work as possible myself to keep the costs down. I have wired for 5 tv points in various rooms in the house using one WF100 co-axial cable per point. I have wired each point back to the loft where I assume I will need a splitter between the ariel in the loft and the points. I live about 500 yards from the main tv transmitter for the area so the signal strength shouldn't be a problem!

At the moment I have no intention of having satellite and will stick with freeview, but I would like to cable for satellite whilst the house is back to bare walls in case I change my mind later. The question I have is do I need to add any extra co-axial cables to each tv point or does satellitte work off the same coaxial cable for freeview.

If some one could let me know their thoughts I would be very grateful.

Andy
 
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I assume that you are thinking of putting a sky type box in the loft too and use a magic eye?

If you want to put it in the lounge then ISTR you may need an additional cable to go back up to the splitter unit to share the RF out with the other TV's.
 
You can combine satellite and terrestrial signals down one cable, but it's usually done in big blocks of flats and needs a combiner multiswitch at the 'head end'

For domestic you'd usually run 1 or 2 (2 if you want to record one channel and watch another on Sky Plus) cables for saellite from the dish to the sky box in the lounge. You might want a third to run the RF output from the box back up to the splitter. Terrestrial would be a separate (4th) cable from the aerial to the box.

Also for Sky multiroom you need phone points at each box location so you might as well get that cabled in too.

If you are just having Sky multiroom then 2x cables from the dish to the lounge, 1x cable from the dish to each other room, and phone point to each, would be usual.

But cable's cheap, just install it everywhere and leave the ends coiled up in a cupboard until it's needed.
 
Thank you both for the advice, it was really useful and I will cable for the hope of one maybe having multi-room.

Andy
 
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Andy, I would suggest you wire using the following:

1 x Triax 304115 in the main TV position (3x WF100 and 1x Cat5/Telephone)
http://www.triax.co.uk/Products/Wal...={F44967B9-2E2F-488E-8AF0-34184D2C9A5D}&Tab=0

1x Triax 304109 at each other TV position (2x WF100 co-ax)
http://www.triax.co.uk/Products/Wal...={7969B451-48AE-4001-9BC4-A55081882735}&Tab=0
If there is a possibility you'll have a second Sky subscription at any of the other points (rather than Freesat) then I would suggest a cat5 to each of them as well, replacing the 304109's with 304110's http://www.triax.co.uk/Products/Wal...={AA5F1F01-0DA2-4BB6-964B-31F6EC2C1779}&Tab=0


Then look at Triax Domestic Distribution Unit 333112 http://www.triax.co.uk/Products/Dom...={4650ACE9-1DFE-4A6F-A99A-D7A882A3AAA0}&Tab=0
That will give you good flexibility for the future.

Hope that helps.
 
Thanks that is useful and is the same sort of arrangement an electrician friend of mine suggested too.
 

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