Thread: Need to drill 4 Coax thru House wall into living room.. need some advise

I have a separate hole for each cable. In my case, I have a poured basement with brick. I drill the holes in the mortar between the bricks. That way if ever the cables are removed, the mortar can be replaced and does not damage the brick. Behind the brick is a 2x12 beam leading into the basement. A masonary bit to drill the mortar, then a long (1.5 foot long) bit to drill through the wood. Once the cable is in place, silicone the hole to prevent weather and bugs from entering.

OK.. some good tips so far THX for that.
Any more from local satellite installer from L.A?

Originally Posted by pro96

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What would be the best way to drill the 4 coax from side of the house --> thru the wall directly into the living room wall?
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Are the FTA dish mounted on the house, or in ground? If in ground, it generally violates code to just bring the wires in through the wall at random, you're supposed to bring the wires in where the house power comes in.
This sort of thing would never bother me, which is obvious to anyone who's seen the pictures of the wires coming into my house, but it might be important to someone trying to do things like an installer would.
Now ME, on one side of my house I drilled about a 2.5 to 3" hole in the wall with a hole saw, and slipped a short section of PVC pipe through the hole so it fit tightly, and that gave me roome for some ribbon cable, several runs of RG6 (for scanners), and several runs of RG-8 (for ham radios), and some RG58 for an external GPS antenna. On the other side of the house, I did the same PVC pipe thing, and brought in 2 runs of ribbon cable, some Cat-5 cable, and about 5 runs of RG6, all for sat dishes. Obviously not very "neat", but just wanted to show the 2 extremes, 1, following the NEC code, and one doing it the sloppy way.

It can look nice if you take your time, I have 4 runs of RG6, a cat5, and a 4pair 18AWG cable shielded going out to the array. I also added a GFCI power run out there.

Originally Posted by B.J.

Are the FTA dish mounted on the house, or in ground? If in ground, it generally violates code to just bring the wires in through the wall at random, you're supposed to bring the wires in where the house power comes in.
This sort of thing would never bother me, which is obvious to anyone who's seen the pictures of the wires coming into my house, but it might be important to someone trying to do things like an installer would.
Now ME, on one side of my house I drilled about a 2.5 to 3" hole in the wall with a hole saw, and slipped a short section of PVC pipe through the hole so it fit tightly, and that gave me roome for some ribbon cable, several runs of RG6 (for scanners), and several runs of RG-8 (for ham radios), and some RG58 for an external GPS antenna. On the other side of the house, I did the same PVC pipe thing, and brought in 2 runs of ribbon cable, some Cat-5 cable, and about 5 runs of RG6, all for sat dishes. Obviously not very "neat", but just wanted to show the 2 extremes, 1, following the NEC code, and one doing it the sloppy way.

Good advise.. I will do it just like you said it, see how it goes.

Ok used a standard 1/2" masonry drill and made a perfect hole big enough that was able to feed 4 coax cables thru.. The outer wall from the house is stucco so it was actually easier then I first thought.

Still deciding on which plate to use..