Electricians Santa Rosa CA- Installing Cable Outlets

Here is some useful advice from an electrician in Santa Rosa CA on how to install your own cable outlets in your house. Its not as complicated as people think.

When you call a cable company out they charge extra money to wire more than one room. Its something they usually fail to state when you call to get the service and find out later once the bill come. Its one of those little extra ad-ons that really lines their pockets over the course of a year. Why not try to do it by yourself? It is not difficult and doing so can save you money.

First Step
Starting out drill a 1/2 inche hole according to the route you will be using to bring the cable into the room. If you have a crawl space, have picked to run the wire from beneath the house, you will need to drill a hole in the supporting beams of the floor and another one at minimum six inches below an electrical outlet.

Second Step
Okay, leave the roll of wire at the point where it will be connected to the wire coming from the pole. Pull the wire with you as you go bellow the house to the point where you have drilled the hole for the cable. Now push the wire through the hole in the supporting beams and through the hole you drilled below the electrical outlet.

Third Step
Next, push through 6 inches of extra wire at the point where it goes into the house. Have a person assist you to pull it through as you feed it through the hole. That person can hold it as you go back out of the crawl space and fasten the cable to the beams with clips. Back in the house, pull the cable wire through a face plate made for this purpose. Using a screwdriver, fasten the fact plate to the wall.

Fourth Step
Continuing on, strip an inch of the insulation from the end of the cable wire and put your connector on, making sure the metal wire in the middle comes through the middle of the connector. If the wire is too long, cut it even with the end of the connector. Use the wire crimpers to crimp the connector to the wire.

Fifth Step
For the last step return outside to where the cable comes off the pole and is connected to your home.Proceed to Install a signal splitter and attach the new cable to the splitter after crimping on the connector as you did the other end. With the screwdriver, screw this to the home beside the original connection.

Now have completed installing a cable outlet. If you are good a building things or are experienced in home improvement this will be no big deal at all. If not you can call an electrical contractor in the Santa Rosa CA area to do it for you.