TV aerial and Sky problem

[Jan49]

We've just moved into a house which we're renting. There's an aerial on the house roof and a Sky dish on a ground floor back roof. The Sky dish is wired through to the front living room. The other aerial seems to have connections for 2 bedrooms upstairs, so nothing in the living rooms downstairs. I assume the dish is remotely disconnected as we're not paying for Sky TV. The inventory isn't very detailed and doesn't mention anything about aerials.How do we use a TV downstairs, keeping in mind that it's a rented house and we're not allowed to add anything, not even a nail on a wall, and we don't have much idea if it involves adding wires and doing anything complicated! Thank you.

I had a similar problem on a smaller scale. I needed my T.V to be on the other side of the living room for the arial. I measured up and purchased several metres of cable and connectors from a specialist electrical supplies shop. I then ran the cable all the way round the room pinning it to the top of the skirting boards and round the doorways until it reached the right position.
An alternative way would be to get an arial fitter who could either take a cable from the roof arial and into the lounge via a neat and scarcely noticable hole in the window frame or wall or join to the bedroom cables. The D.I.Y way will be a lot cheaper. I paid £10 for the D.I.Y way and I guess I would have had to pay an arial fitter at least £40. The cable clips have quite fine pins so won't leave obvious marks in the skirting boards especially if you only use the minimum needed.

If you have a Freesat box, you can connect it to the Sky box and get free digital channels that way? A box will cost you £70+

Get a freesat box and plug it into the existing satellite dish. Should work fine.