Very pleased with this

My new satellite dish. Just look at the colour match!

The electrician kindly fed lots of cable through the wall for me and left plenty for me to play with to make the connection to the dish. However, one of the idiots in the ‘Crépi’ gang cut all of it off, and more, without telling me leaving only a shortened tail sticking out of the wall. I was worried if there was going to be enough but only by luck and pulling as much more as I could out from inside was there just enough cable to connect the LNB.

I don’t think I pulled too hard to disconnect the cable from the living room wall socket but I’ll be sweating a bit until I can test the system and confirm that it works. Luckily I was able to hide the cable where it emerges through the wall behind the dish bracket and I sealed the hole with a generous blob of white mastic to keep water out.

The dish is also approximately lined up to connect to the Astra 2E satellite (Satellite Name: 28.2E ASTRA 2E | ASTRA 2F | ASTRA 2G, Distance: 38476km, Dish Setup Elevation: 31.6° Azimuth (true): 144.0° Azimuth (magn.): 142°) but I’ll complete the setup either once I’ve got my meter out of storage or I can borrow my friend Victor’s 🙂

Now I’m just waiting for the porch light to arrive. Once I’ve got that fitted that’ll be all that I’ve got to do, for the time being at least, on the outside of the house. My plans now are to move inside and start by sealing and undercoating the angles where the walls meet the ceiling in the living room and corridor. Then I can mount the coving in those areas by which time, if not before, the floor tiles should be down inside the whole house.

If the coving is then only partially up, it won’t matter because it’s a job that can be done at any time, even after I’ve moved in. The priority once the floor tiles are down and the plumbing connections are available will be to install the kitchen, a job which I thoroughly enjoy doing actually 😀