Poor and plain Bad cabling on installs...

[GSMGuy]

Couldn't see a thread on this, so thought I would start one...

I know the installers are under time pressure etc, but the number of quite frankly, atrocious cabling jobs I have seen lately just beggars belief.

As I live on a new development, I see lots of installs, where I think "How the hell have they gotten away with that?"

Not being funny, but if you had paid for a brand new house, and the installer is knocking chunks off it, don't know about you lot - but I would be LIVID!

So, lets see who can spot the WORST cabling.... Post a pic!!

I can't wait to see some of these...


Mike

[GSMGuy]

Ok, will start this off with pics of our install...

Dish up on corner of house, with cabling running into roof void for multiroom, and to drainpipe for box in lounge:




Cable running down rear of drainpipe:



Prob as neat as I could get it...

Mike

[Kenedin]

Neat.

[Brian69]

Cable looks o.k, but the bottom two bracket screws look to be in the brick course, rather than the bricks themselves.

I also hope that there is a little tape on the f plugs under the plug cover on the LNB, this is very fiddle with four cables , but well worth the effort

[Smithy99]

Doesn't look too bad, the only problems I have found when running cable behind the downspout is that it can be very hard to tack in.

Also as Brian says, the bottom two bolts are in the mortar, although with the size of the digital dishes I don't think that is an issue.

[Woodster]

It's common practice to run cables behind drainpipes, though they should be cable tied to it. If the bottom 2 bracket holes are in the mortar, then so are the top 2!! This is a cardinal sin!! All bolt holes should be in the brickwork, not the mortar courses.

[Isitme]

It is a lot easier to drill into mortar than brick, which is why the installer has taken the easy route. Heavy fixings should never be made into joints and although the dish is not very heavy, when the wind hits it it could increase it's weight many times. Over a long period the plugs will loosen.
I am not sure but does the cable run underground before entering the house. Very tidy but is standard cable suitable for underground installation?
I am not being picky about your work, which looks an awful lot better than some installs I have seen.

[GSMGuy]

Never even checked where he had drilled for the dish tbh, and being a kitchen fitter, I am fairly well up on fixing things to walls!! As pointed out, I always try for the brick, rather than the mortar when putting up wall unit hanging brackets!

The cable is cable tied to the drainpipe, using translucent ty-wraps, you can just make one out above the pipe fixing bracket - The cable is actually in the border of the garden around the house, so technically not underground, just covered in the gravel etc, although I wouldn't have worried about putting it a couple of inches under the surface if there hadn't been a border, to protect it from the mower!!!!

Mike

[ashleyrunt]

When i went back to Sky after being with NTL for a while, I told sky I only needed a new cable running to box as still had dish.
I`d fitted a quad LNB and the kids had a sky box each running `FreeStat` and we had the NTL cable box in the living room.
Sky installer came with our new box and the ran a new cable from box through wall to dish. Nice chap and I`d got thing to do so let him get on with the installation.
He set up the box and TV ect and showed me that it was working OK.
very happy to have Sky back, until kids get home and their boxes aren`t getting a signal. Idiot installer had only CUT the cables and changed the quad LNB for a single one
So it was out with my ladder , garden bench , planks of wood (ladder not very long and dish very high up), put the quad LNB back up and bodge cables back on

So if your having Sky installed/ re-installed then watch the installer like a hawk.
Anyway rambling rant over.

[GSMGuy]

When i went back to Sky after being with NTL for a while, I told sky I only needed a new cable running to box as still had dish.
I`d fitted a quad LNB and the kids had a sky box each running `FreeStat` and we had the NTL cable box in the living room.
Sky installer came with our new box and the ran a new cable from box through wall to dish. Nice chap and I`d got thing to do so let him get on with the installation.
He set up the box and TV ect and showed me that it was working OK.
very happy to have Sky back, until kids get home and their boxes aren`t getting a signal. Idiot installer had only CUT the cables and changed the quad LNB for a single one
So it was out with my ladder , garden bench , planks of wood (ladder not very long and dish very high up), put the quad LNB back up and bodge cables back on

So if your having Sky installed/ re-installed then watch the installer like a hawk.
Anyway rambling rant over.

I'd have been on the phone like a flash - tantemount to criminal damage - he had neither your instruction, or your permission to cut YOUR cable feeding YOUR freesat!

Mike