Help with cabling (and how houses are built!)

boxst

I tried to do this a year or so ago and failed, but with a new TV I thought I would try again and ask for you to help me ....

I have a Sky+ box in the loft that distributes the signal. Long and complicated reasons for this.

I would now like to have the Sky+ box in the lounge so need to feed the two satellite cables from the loft to the lounge. Easy: There is already an aerial cable there, so I'll just pull it up with a piece of string attached and then pull it down with the two cable attached. Nope, wont budge.

Fine, I have a cable feeder (thin plastic flexible screwed together thing) so unscrew the aerial box, push up the feeder and it gets stuck at around ceiling height. Obviously something blocking between floors.

Any suggestions? I thought plasterboard houses had empty walls ...

Thanks,

Steve

1984ReturnsForReal_2

boxst wrote: »

Any suggestions? I thought plasterboard houses had empty walls ...

Thanks,

Steve

They do apart from where they are dabbed on or nailed on to a wooden partition frame.

ormus

if they only drilled a single hole big enough for one co-ax cable through the noggins, then you aint gonna get two cables through it.

ormus

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notice the small holes in the timber, for the cables.

boxst

Okay, thank you. I guess there is a piece of wood between the floors as I can get the cable feeder up to the ceiling.

I should just stop being a wimp and crawl in the loft and look down the place where the cables drop. Fear of spiders ninja stalking you in an enclosed space is irritational ...

Steve

27col

Hey ormus. What type of bird would normally use the bird's nest that you are illustrating in the picture. Is it the lesser spotted video bird or some other.

vaio

boxst wrote: »

Okay, thank you. I guess there is a piece of wood between the floors as I can get the cable feeder up to the ceiling.

I should just stop being a wimp and crawl in the loft and look down the place where the cables drop. Fear of spiders ninja stalking you in an enclosed space is irritational ...

Steve

Send a hungry cat up there first to clear the enemy out (and if you can find a cat that can pull cables so much the better)

ormus

27col wrote: »

Hey ormus. What type of bird would normally use the bird's nest that you are illustrating in the picture. Is it the lesser spotted video bird or some other.

its the lesser spotted part P qualified sparky bird.
(common name. goony bird).



ps.
itll be alright on the night.

27col

vaio wrote: »

Send a hungry cat up there first to clear the enemy out (and if you can find a cat that can pull cables so much the better)

Many years ago we used my mate's Jack Russell to pull a cable string under his floor. The dog seemed to love it.

ormus

we used to use ferrets on the farm to run cables thro pipelines.
they used to rent them out to the GPO.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

ormus wrote: »

we used to use ferrets on the farm to run cables thro pipelines.
they used to rent them out to the GPO.

I knew there must have been a use for ferrets & God put them on the planet for a reason...

Its been bugging me for ages that one....