Take coaxial cable from living room?
23-10-2011, 11:56
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Take coaxial cable from living room?
Hi folks,
Newbie here, I'm trying to connect the aerial on the roof to my bedroom. Believe it or not there is only one tv faceplate in the house and that is in the living room. Since the living room and dining room have sky connected the aerial is not being used.
Would I be right in thinking that I could take the faceplate off cut the cable, go up into the loft, pull the cable out of the wall and put it through the ceiling of my bedroom and connect it to the tv?
Didn't want to do anything as I'm not quite sure, any advice would be welcome. Thanks
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23-10-2011, 13:28
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Re: Take coaxial cable from living room?
The best way would be to cut it up in the attic and join a new piece of drop cable just in case you ever decided you wanted to use the socket in the lounge, you'd be kicking yourself otherwise 
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23-10-2011, 13:47
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Re: Take coaxial cable from living room?
Put something like this in your loft to enable both sockets to stay in use as Graham advised above.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-Way-Digi...item43aa7c7ec3
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23-10-2011, 14:09
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Re: Take coaxial cable from living room?
Thanks for replying guys the only problem is that there is no electric in the attic.
Have already bought a loft aerial but tried it yesterday and its useless.
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23-10-2011, 20:13
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Re: Take coaxial cable from living room?
...or just buy a two way splitter - you may lose some of the signal but worth a shot.
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24-10-2011, 10:24
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Re: Take coaxial cable from living room?
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Originally Posted by gmcd86
Thanks for replying guys the only problem is that there is no electric in the attic.
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Not even connections to the lights and switches for the floor below?
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24-10-2011, 10:30
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Re: Take coaxial cable from living room?
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Not even connections to the lights and switches for the floor below?
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