How To Keep Coax Cables Outside Clean?

The article provides nine simple tips to clean up messy cables in your house. These include fastening cables to walls with coaxial cable staples or tubing, guiding cords along delicate surfaces with command strips, securing bundles of cables with zip ties or one-wraps, using painter’s tape in a pinch, setting up enough power strips, labeling cords, and using bread bag tags if you don’t have a label maker.

You are not legally required to have coaxial cables running along your house or into your house, nor are you required to have a cable box attached to your house. The house is your property, and you can remove them. Gather up the cable and cable box, strip the coax cable, fold the wire shielding against the outer insulation, push the connector onto the coax cable, and twist the connector until it is secure.

If you want to remove an unused cable that goes through your external wall before siding replacement, you can tear it all out, use spray foam to fill up any huge holes, and caulk on top or caulk on just little ones. If you want cable internet in the future, you should use a brand new RG6Q or RG11 line from the pole or pedestal to wherever.

To reliably weatherproof your coaxial connections, use crimp-ring style coaxial cable connectors and a special crimping tool. Cut the cables with diagonal cutters where they go through the floor or into the wall and discard the cable. If you don’t have a coax wall plate, any electrical contact cleaner should be OK.

Inspecting your cable is the first step in cleaning up your cables. Begin with a clean and dry cable and inspect the cable thoroughly. Remove the footplate from the shingle beneath it to avoid roof damage. Put one hand on the first boxes but remove any extensions from the lines trailing along the ground.