tv aerial socket & phone socket in bedroom

[emmaamme]

Want to put a tv aerial socket & phone socket in bedroom as planning to use as study. Thought it would be pretty straightforward & just a case of cabling going behind the internal bedroom wall however the installation man that came round was reluctant to do this & says it would be very difficult to feed the cabling behind the walls as this is usually done when the house is being built & he might find obstructions behind the wall. We have sky downstairs so he suggests taking it from livingroom, running cable outside along the outer wall and then into bedroom. For the phone cable we have a phone point in another upstairs bedroom & he suggests taking it from the other bedroom, then running a cable along outside of house to the relevant bedroom. Not keen on having holes knocked through to outside wall so wondering if this sounds like best option or whether he is waffling. (His other suggestion was to have cabling come down from loft through bedroom ceiling then down wall to tv but I don't like the thought of having a wire dangling from ceiling). He also says he doesn't like the sockets that you put on the wall for tv aerials & would be more inclined to put one of those little plastic round covers over the hole. Again I thought a socket would be neater - any ideas? Thought this would be simple!!

 

[Sam Gangee]

Anything is possible if you are willing to pay for it and if the technician is willing and able. Depends on the house structure, wall composition, desired aesthetics.

 

[Steve]

The guy sounds like a cheap aerial installer. The type that bangs an aerial up, runs the wire down the roof, down the wall and through a hole, bang a belling-lee on the end and take the money.

Yes you can have what you want. You dont need to put the wiring outside. Put it under the floorboards. Its more work, but worth it, IMO to not have wiring wrapped round the place!

 

[ChrisFrost]

Thought this would be simple!!

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Running consealed cable can be a really time consuming job. Moving furniture, pulling back carpets, lifting floorboards, drilling joists, negotiating internal obstacles, fishing the cable, chasing walls, chiselling out for back boxes, replastering, and then putting everything back. It's easy to spend a whole day running a bit of wire if the house is cluttered or one is unlucky with joist directions.

The assumption that the job is easy is a common one. Unfortuately it also implies that the cost will be low.

 

[ericmark]

Normal partition walls consist of a wood frame and plaster board on top and one has to tap walls to locate the frame then make a small hole above it and drill through it then feed cables and finally make good with plaster. Brick walls one chases out plaster installs cables then re-plaster. Often the electrician will do these repairs as long as no paper on the walls. Wall paper needs stripping before plaster repairs can be completed or the repair will be proud of the wall by thickness of paper.
To keep down costs trunking and outside routing is common as buried cables both cost in time and mean redecorating will be required.
I normally ear mark any work to be completed before next redecoration is about to start then with all careful laid plans some water pipe will burst and all the redecorating is done in emergency before I have time to bury cables.

 

[Mickymoody]

I thought in existing builds, they just tacked onto an existing feed going from the source to upstairs, like central heating pipes, then tacked around the skirting board. Unless you specified against that?