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  1. A

    250 watt bulbs for dark sky fittings

    Job lot of bulbs 10 of any sensible offers
  2. K

    Goodbye SKY

    That's it, it's goodbye SKY hello FREESAT I love freesat who needs sky, I called their bluff, I was only trying to get another six months full package at half price they said No so Hello freesat
  3. 0

    sky cabling and magic eye

    Hi getting sky installed on Saturday and I am wanting to have sky in the main bedroom and also free view in a second bedroom for a child If I run a satellite cable from the rf out on the sky+hd box into the loft and use a amp and then run a satellite cable down to the main bedroom wire a magic...
  4. amlu

    sky first fix for 5 rooms

    good evening i`m in the middle of a rewire, customer wants sky tv install in 5 rooms. the plan for tommorow is getting some double satellite coax and running them from points in every room to the loft, adding a socket in the loft. after the job telling the customer to call to sky people and...
  5. R

    IR repeater with Sky HD

    Hi Everyone I am wanting some advice on IR repeaters. The Sky box and DVD player are to be situated upstairs in a room above where the tv is. I have two HDMI cables coming down the wall but would like to know what I need to control them. I've been looking at IR repeaters but the distance I need...
  6. P

    Problems moving Sky Box and wire

    Afternoon, I'm a complete novice and have enough basic knowledge to be able to rewire a plug and the odd central heating component (being a plumber I need know no more). I say this so you know my level of capability. I want to move my Sky box from one end of my lounge to the other (a total of...
  7. K

    Sky plus hd

    Got a bit of a problem with my sky+ it says that I have only 1% memory left but have very little recorded. did a bit of digging about and been told to do a planner rebuild, the instructions are unclear, anyone have any idea what I do (and how to do it.) or do I need to do something else cheers
  8. T

    advise on sky installation please????

    Hi all was wondering if anybody could help who has knowledge with sky installation , currently doing a rewire and am pulling in the sky points so the cable is hidden, in total there is going to be 8 tvs and they want sky for each one of them, pulling in twin satalite cable for sky plus but do...
  9. D

    Sky Dish cable

    Hi, I have a 4way LNB on my sky dish but only 3 of the ports are in use. I also have an unused sky box. What is the cable called that goes from sky dish to sky box? and where can I get it from? Thanks, Dan :)
  10. D

    Sky high quote and false claims??

    Hi, Not been on here for a long while after having my solar pv system fitted in November 2011, but looks like things have massively changed. A friend of mine just called me to say their 78 year old parents have just signed today for a pv system. From what I've roughly worked out, it looks...
  11. DaveyD

    sky hdmi

    Hi chaps. Can't find a simple answer - perhaps I'm not looking for the right thing. Customer is getting two sky boxes for two rooms. Wants hdmi outlet by box and outlet for wall mounted flat screen tv. I have the female to female outlets. The cables I purchased are 1.3 hdmi. Is that...
  12. T

    Sky+, Digital TV, CCTV.. Over 20 outputs, Recommendations?

    I want to send sky+, digital TV and CCTV to over 20 outputs, any recommendation on any units capable of doing this? And allowing me use magic eye to control sky reciever... Seen all the "loft box" and labgear units but they don't have enough outputs
  13. M

    sky f type point help

    hi after first fixing a house the other week i was asked if i could run some sky cables in , i of course did and ended up with the following dual cable to dish position from main tv area . with single cable to second tv position from main tv area . all coiled up into a single metal back box ...
  14. D

    sky installers !!!!!!!

    had a visit from the sky installers, have just finished wiring a 4 bed detatched million pound house, against my advice the owner got sky in, they promptly arrived LATE and where i had left two shotgun cabes for him to install the dish he took one look at it and said, nah cant do it there there...
  15. D

    Sky vs BT

    currently have sky.... currently have bt broadband and phone im weighing up pros and cons of all services with sky or all with BT!!!! so far sky is better for TV shows but BT have nice fibre in my area...!!
  16. C

    need to install 3 sky points in a house

    HI, I was wondering if anyone could give me advice on installing 3 sky points in a domestic house. Would i just need to run shotgun cable from the main sky point to the 3 individual rooms that need the points? Any help would be most appreciated
  17. sjhall

    1 meter Sky Dish

    Hi Lads, I'm new to motorised sat dishes, I'm hoping to put a 1 meter dish on the back of my house, I've been given a little advice off one of my customers, he is advising on what box to buy and what sats to subscribe to... One thing he did say is I'd need to get someone in to position the dish...
  18. B

    Help any sky fitters

    Hi all I have just gone head over foot down a set of stairs and I pulled a extension plug apart it has SKY TV DO NOT UNPLUG at the far end of the plug is a phone point and a small conection possible data. at the far end the phone work fine. at the plug end which plugs into the main phone point...
  19. L

    Sky+ HD multiroom in cat5e or cat6

    Hi, My god I seem to be doing a lot of TV set up's lately. Not one has been normal set up. This one is for my local wholesalers manager. He want's the following. Sky+HD in Lounge Sky+HD in his bedroom Sky into kitchen and x4 bedrooms Some rep has got it into his head that he needs it all...
  20. S

    Sky and Tv Aerial advice please!

    Hi all, Just pricing up a job and schedule of works states that in various rooms i wire a 'coax for TV from existing aerial and sky box'. Now, my understanding would be that that is two cables to each point, one for Sky and one for the tv aerial, agreed or not? if so, i understand that the tv...
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