Moving tv aerial cables

eliot1

Hi all,

We're currently doing up our sitting room and want to move the tv aerial point. We want to move it to the other end of the same wall practically. Can we get rid of the current connection box and run it straight out of the bottom of the wall it's currently on, and behind the skirting boards to where we need it?or do we have to keep the connection box?

eliot1

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated! I'm just worried about leaving the current connection box and then feeding the cable from that to behind the skirting....

coffeehound

Yes you can put a co-ax plug straight onto the end of the cable. It could even improve your signal by taking the box out.

stator

As long as it's a freeview cable you can do what you want using appropriate connectors. If it's Sky/Virgin Media you'll need someone who knows what they are doing.

Heedtheadvice

Yes, old fashioned coax not a great problem (just use low load cable to keep losses minimised) and join with new coax connectors. But you can also just plug in to existing socket with longer cable to TV and run it in surface mounted plastic trunking ?

Satellite dish fed signal is a bit more difficult (but not impossible) to do and extension cable is probably best way forward there for most people unless you get somebody in to do it for you.

d0nkeyk0ng

Our aerial socket was on the opposite side of where we wanted our TV, so I just plugged in a co-axial cable and ran it under the carpet. The previous owners had managed to leave a gap for the aerial cable in the underlay so it hugged the walls.