Hi MichaelG, I've recently replaced my satellite dish with a new one for use with my new Freesat box, the dish kit came with a similar moulded piece of plastic, which they call a brick damage cover. Someone may have just put a connection box under yours, but I think they would have had to cut a hole big enough for one into the brickwork. In the instructions with mine, the cover is just glued on with a suitable adhesive. I haven't put mine on, as the drilled hole didn't make any real damage.

Regards Nick.

A hole, usually straight through because it's hard to route a cable inside a finished cavity wall.

Straight through doesn't mean it will be easy to trace though. Might be hidden on the inside behind skirting or whatever.

The so and so who installed the TV coax drop cable from my loft to living room socket 40 years ago looped it round a batten mid-way. The git turned a simple cable replacement job into a major works project because the cable can't be pulled through and is deep inside the wall.

Dave

Hi, as JasonB has said, another thing that people don't do is making sure the drilled hole is sloping slightly downwards to the outside, which will help prevent rain on the wall running into the hole and into the house.

Regards Nick.

I got zapped by a sat cable once, only a small zap but it was there

Apparently the old cables were live, don't know about nowadays

Hi Ady1, when I hooked up my satellite finder on my new dish, the freesat box was in standby mode, and when I disconnected one of the leads from the LNB, I kept getting a very uncomfortable tingling in my figures when the other hand was holding onto my aluminium ladder. It soon dawned on me that I had to go back indoors and turn the box off completely, then go back and connect the finder, and go back and turn the box on again, and once it was all set up, I had to do the turning off and back on in reverse. So yes they are juiced up nowadays.

Regards Nick.