[whoever]

Hi,
I need to re-locate an aerial in the bedroom, so will be chasing a cable up the inside of some partition wall into the loft. While I am doing this work I was thinking it might be worth putting some trunking in the wall as future proofing. That way I can put an HDMI cable down the wall or more likely some cat5 or satalite cable at a future date. Any suggestions on what the best trunking is to do this.

Obviously I will probably need to drill part of a nogging to get the trunking past, so I don't want the trunking to be that big, but I do want it to hold a fair bit of cable as otherwise it would defeat the point.

Cheers,
Ian

[MarkP80]

I'd put CT100 satellite cable in right from the start.
The others are a difficult call, but rather than trunking, if it's not a convaluted route, maybe consider just a pull-cord for future additions?

MarkP

[whoever]

A Pull Cord sounds like a good idea and would require less wall cutting

[hornydragon]

Cat5 makes a decent pull cord and has the added advantage of being useful while in the wall

[whoever]

Originally Posted by MarkP80

I'd put CT100 satellite cable in right from the start.
The others are a difficult call, but rather than trunking, if it's not a convaluted route, maybe consider just a pull-cord for future additions?

MarkP

So can I use CT100 satellite cable rather than coax or would you recommend installing both? At the moment I have a magic eye connected to my TV.
Sorry - I'm trying to work out what the benefit is of installating CT100 cable rather than coax, or along side it.

[whoever]

Originally Posted by hornydragon

Cat5 makes a decent pull cord and has the added advantage of being useful while in the wall

Sounds like a good plan.
I see there are a number of converters that carry HDMI signals over 2 CAT 5 cables. So I'm thinking that I should put in 2 CAT 5 cables, plus coax or CT100 cable.

Thoughts?