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How do I add new aerial points to rooms?

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Iwannamovenow · 07/06/2012 21:44

The house we're in has a tv aerial in the livingroom, and 2 points in bedrooms.

We're moving soon and will need to put aerial points in the kids bedrooms.
What's the best/easiest way of doing it?

Tia

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lookoveryourshoulder · 07/06/2012 23:12

.... are you planning on moving somewhere really rural ??

I only ask this as things seem to be changing so rapidly and having spent money on doing the same in our house a few years back - only now to find that most of the nasty visible cabling doesn't get used - as we use wireless connections to access TV... either on "Catch-up" or whatever ... but you can access some TV "stuff" thru the Wii or Xbox these days (iphone/itunes etc etc )...

PigletJohn · 08/06/2012 10:51

if you're moving, and presumably doing some redecoration or recarpeting, you can do a proper job if you want, and run the cable under the floors, popping up in the corners of rooms wher you expectto need it, or around the loft and down through the ceilings. You can get an "aerial amplifier" where you plug the aeriel in one side, and it has mutiple sockets on the other, into each of which you co-ax for a single room, like the legs of an octipus.

Don't try to join coa-ax in a junction box or by twisting the wires together, this degrades the signal.

An aerial amplifier needs an electricity supply, the current is very low and it can be taken from a lighting circuit if necessary, but if you are not competent at electrical work ask an electrician to do it.

Unlike electrical power cables, you are allowed to run aerial cables behind skirting board, since no-one will be electrocuted when they drill or nail into it.

If you are having the house rewired, the electrician can include it in his scope of work.

You can have the house wired for internet or burglar alarms at the same time if you want, again, individual cables running back to a central point. Some people put the house server under the stairs.

Iwannamovenow · 08/06/2012 21:14

Thanks, no we're not moving anywhere rural.

At the moment we get cable tv but never watch it.
So when we move, we'll not bother getting a tv package, especially seeing as it'll take at least a year for us to re-do the whole house.

We have 3 dc's, 2 of which will need their tv's working to save my sanity asap. :o

Thanks pj, your advice is wonderful as usual.
I'll get dh to go shopping nearer the time.

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