| There are a few reasons why you may find | | | | outside wall on the home or a sturdy pipe |
| yourself installing your own satellite TV system | | | | extending out of the roof. Before you attach the |
| and if this is the case you will want to take some | | | | dish scout out in the attic to make sure that you |
| measures to insure that you do a professional | | | | are going to be able to run the cable to the dish |
| quality job. All of the leading satellite TV service | | | | and if there is a problem you might want to find |
| providers do free installation on up to three | | | | another place to mount it. Mount to dish using |
| rooms in your home when you sign up but it is | | | | new hardware onto solid wood, meaning that you |
| only three rooms and its only when you sign up. | | | | want to run your screws into the framing |
| If you want more rooms done or you move to | | | | members inside of the wall if it is on an outside |
| another residence its up to do it or pay for the | | | | wall. |
| service. | | | | Pre-drill your holes and use nice big new lag bolts |
| Step one, is to make sure that you have all of | | | | that are long enough to attach well. When you run |
| the right tools and hardware that you will need | | | | your cable, you will want to attach it well to any |
| for the job and the only way to do this is to | | | | walls and you don't want to tear up your home |
| make a list of everything that you will need. You | | | | when you do it. If possible run it through the attic |
| can rent tools that you need at a rental yard or | | | | as much as you can and you can access interior |
| at most of your local franchise hardware | | | | wall cavities by drilling through the walls top plates |
| establishments such as Home Depot. Assuming | | | | in the attic. You may have trouble accessing your |
| that you have all of the tools that you are going | | | | entire home through the attic, so you will most |
| to be using then its time to get started. | | | | likely need a long "poke stick" to get the cable to |
| The most important part of your job is installing | | | | where you need it to go. |
| the satellite dish, because it has to be positioned | | | | It can be blazing hot in an attic during the day, so |
| for optimal reception and at the same time be | | | | you may want to consider working at night when |
| firmly attached to a solid surface. It doesn't hurt | | | | you do the job. If you need to run the cable out |
| to go out in your community and take a look at | | | | of the attic to the outside of your home, do it at |
| how other satellite dishes have been attached to | | | | a vent block and never go through the roof of |
| homes and businesses for inspiration. Scout | | | | the home or you will cause a leak. When you run |
| around your home for a place high on your roof | | | | the cable inside of your home do clean work and |
| or on an upper deck that has a clear shot of the | | | | make sure that it is ran tight along the base of |
| southern sky. | | | | any walls or in the corners of a room. You will |
| Many times its an end barge rafter that people | | | | need to use a compass to establish the final |
| end up attaching their dish to but it can also be an | | | | trajectory of your satellite dish. |