I'm looking to move my NTE5 from one side of the room it currently enters to the other. I'm aware this "should" be done by BT but I don't wish to pay nearly £200 when I could do an equally professional and probably neater job myself.
The line is fed from a drop wire which runs vertically from gutter height and enters the lounge through the side of the window frame. There is enough slack on this cable to run it into a junction box about 18 inches from ground level, from which I propose to run a cable horizontally round the bay window (probably around 4m in cable length) and into a flush mounted socket the other side of the window.
So my questions:
1) What cable should I use for the horizontal run? I've read conflicting messages as to whether black CW1308 is appropriate for outdoor use, or should I use dropwire cable?
2) What junction box would be more appropriate? BT66B looks the way to go but the BT16A might look neater.
3) I imagine I would clip the cable roughly every 200-250mm (basically one clip per old imperial brick length). Is this sufficient to prevent the cable sagging between and is either of the above two cables less liable to sagging?
The line is fed from a drop wire which runs vertically from gutter height and enters the lounge through the side of the window frame. There is enough slack on this cable to run it into a junction box about 18 inches from ground level, from which I propose to run a cable horizontally round the bay window (probably around 4m in cable length) and into a flush mounted socket the other side of the window.
So my questions:
1) What cable should I use for the horizontal run? I've read conflicting messages as to whether black CW1308 is appropriate for outdoor use, or should I use dropwire cable?
2) What junction box would be more appropriate? BT66B looks the way to go but the BT16A might look neater.
3) I imagine I would clip the cable roughly every 200-250mm (basically one clip per old imperial brick length). Is this sufficient to prevent the cable sagging between and is either of the above two cables less liable to sagging?
