Wiring your home for coax cable is quite a task. There are many reasons to do it, however. You may be thinking of adding a satellite dish or having cable TV installed and want to have the signal spread out through the house. It is a smart idea to centralize all the radio and TV communications and routing of cables.
Instructions
1. Lay out the plans for where you will install the wire. Make sure you have enough wire. You should purchase about 10 percent more cable than you have measured for. Include in your account for your estimate of the wire all the walls you must go up or done with the cable. Also build into your estimate enough cable to leave some play in the cables at each connection, two feet per connection should be enough.
2. Mark each location for the room placement of the cable. Decide if you want the cable to enter the room from the floor or through the wall. Wall mounts are much more pleasing to the eye but require more work in the wiring process.
3. Prepare the holes in the walls to accept the cable and the cable covers. The covers will have a female to female connector already present. Once wired, you will be able to hook into the cable system with a standard coax cable.
4. Select the centralized wiring point. This will usually be either in the attic or in the crawlspace or basement. Unless you have a finished crawlspace that allows you to work under the house in relative comfort, select the attic as the centralized point for the coax cables meet.
5. Run lengths of Coax from this point to each of the locations that you will be placing a connector in the wall. Add at least two feet of extra wire to each run. This will give you enough to work with as you finish each cable with a connector.
6. Finish each end of cable with a connector. Assuming you are in the attic, drop each cable down the wall section of each of the locations that you are providing connections. Fish the cable from behind the wallboard and pull it through the hole. Connect the coax cable to the connector in the cover and screw down the cover.
7. Label each end of cable with the location that it runs to so that you can identify it later. There are other things you will need but they are dependent on exactly what you will be doing with the coax. You will need mixer, diplexers, multiplexers and splitters if you are going to hook up cable, satellite or antenna signals.
8. Drill a hole in the wall of the attic near the satellite dish and draw through the coax from the dish to the central point of the coax cables. Make the connections to route the satellite signal to the various points around the house.
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