Cut Sky cable - how can I join it back together?

steve1980

I would be asking your "installer" what he is playing at.

The job should have been done in a day and he should never have left you with loose cables hanging out of the wall. It should take an absolute maximum 5 hours.

kmmr

steve1980 wrote: »

I would be asking your "installer" what he is playing at.

The job should have been done in a day and he should never have left you with loose cables hanging out of the wall. It should take an absolute maximum 5 hours.

Agreed. But after 6 months of renovations, I am learning to pick my battles...

kmmr

Hammyman wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I hope to god you're talking about the antenna cables and not the cables from the satellite dish joining onto anoter internal set of cables.

If its the satellite dish ones and the feeds being split, I give it next to no chance of working.

Hammyman, you have proven to be very right! (And lets not go into how long this has been going on).

What I suspect I have is the following:

1 double Sky cable entering the bedroom.
I have then linked them both to the internal cables in the house using the method you have nicely explained to me.

At the other end of the cables (which are hidden in the wall) there are FOUR outputs (2 doubles). One set behind the TV, and the other in the cupboard.

One single output works. I suspect that one cable goes straight to socket 1, and the other cable has had something split/grafted to it to create another junction. Then this has been used to create the second socket.

So we have 4 outlets. 1 working, 3 broken. Presumably the 3 are hooked together and therefore none of them work.

I can't see where the split is - but looking at the pictures of the renovation it must be in the ceiling. The ceiling is slightly dropped (as we have downlighters) so hopefully I can knock a small hole and find the split, and simply remove the grafted on bit of cable.

Anyone got any better ideas? I have been running on a single cable for ages, which means we have TV, but we can't use the recording function. Not the end of the world, and fine for Christmas, but now I want to see how it could be fixed.

Thanks all!