Protecting exterior cables

Ok, so the VM cable now ran up the exterior of the house to the loft. Being designed for (among other things) RF signals from antennas, the cable *should* cope with being mounted outside. I’m shortly, however, going to run a whole bunch of CAT6a networking cables via the same route which may not be so tolerant. The cables needed a cover to protect them (also, externally mounted exposed cables look horribly untidy).

There are products available specifically for this job, but they look a bit too “industrial” and I found them inexplicably difficult to source. The answer?: pipe covers. We had a new gas boiler installed when we moved in which had to be installed in such a way that we ended up with a couple of ugly copper pipes running up the exterior of the house. It turned out that there were covers available for the particular sort of pipe-clips the gas engineer used, and it didn’t take me long to realise that I could use the same types of clips and covers for the cabling.

Talon pipe clips and covers
Talon pipe clips and covers

The clips and covers I used are made by a company called Talon, and can be sourced from JTM Plumbing. Screwfix also stock a limited selection of their products.

Coaxial cable on house exterior
Coaxial cable on house exterior