Caporegime
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Hi all
I've run a TV coax from the roof through into the attic via an old overflow pipe from when my house had a cold water storage tank. Anyway I am now trying to get it down into our bedroom so we can get decent Freeview reception there.
Our bedroom is in an extended part of the house, which currently has no loft access. It looks like this:
You can see the thermalite blocks where they've built an internal wall between the old part of the house and the extended part. On the far side of this I guess is some stud work and plasterboard.
My questions:
- Am I safe to cut those thin pieces of horizontal timber away from the rafter so I can access the extended roof area? Looks like someone's already smashed one away for some reason, though I'm not sure of their purpose since they're surely too weedy to be structural.
- What's the best way to get the co-ax cable down past the breezeblock into our bedroom? Just lift the insulation and waggle it down there, then cut through the plasterboard on the other side?
Many thanks.
I've run a TV coax from the roof through into the attic via an old overflow pipe from when my house had a cold water storage tank. Anyway I am now trying to get it down into our bedroom so we can get decent Freeview reception there.
Our bedroom is in an extended part of the house, which currently has no loft access. It looks like this:
You can see the thermalite blocks where they've built an internal wall between the old part of the house and the extended part. On the far side of this I guess is some stud work and plasterboard.
My questions:
- Am I safe to cut those thin pieces of horizontal timber away from the rafter so I can access the extended roof area? Looks like someone's already smashed one away for some reason, though I'm not sure of their purpose since they're surely too weedy to be structural.
- What's the best way to get the co-ax cable down past the breezeblock into our bedroom? Just lift the insulation and waggle it down there, then cut through the plasterboard on the other side?
Many thanks.
. Looks like a block wall with plasterboard because I can see breeze block running all the way along, and when I tap on the bedroom wall below I can hear hollow bits between battens. But then why did they add breeze block to create the internal wall instead of just using the old external wall and screwing the stud work into that? Maybe something building regy. Or maybe because they had to knock down the old external wall to create the doorways?
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