All nine services
Cabling servicesfor homes and small businessesin Nottingham
Most jobs come down to one thing: getting a cable from where the internet comes in to where you actually need it, without it looking like an afterthought. Here's the list. If yours isn't on it, message me anyway. It usually is, just under a different name.
Faster internet
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A wired socket in the room you actually use. Single, double or quad faceplate, labelled by hand, tested before I leave.
Typical job: two ethernet sockets in one visit, one in a downstairs room for gaming and one in an outside office, quoted the day before.
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A wired socket in the pod, shed or summerhouse. Overhead on a catenary wire, buried in conduit, or clipped along the fence and wall.
Typical job: external ethernet cable to a garden pod at short notice for two NHS workers, back an hour later to check their laptops connected.
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Xbox, PS5, PC and Smart TV on their own ethernet socket instead of WiFi. Lower ping, no buffering.
Typical job: every PC and Xbox in one house hardwired after nearly two years of slow internet and a string of engineers scratching their heads.
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Dead spots, dropouts, routers in daft places. I find the cause, then move the router, wire in an access point or hardwire the heavy users.
Typical job: WiFi dead upstairs, work calls and gaming lagging. One ethernet socket in the home office, and the review says lightning quick.
TV and tidy-ups
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I unbox the TV, put it on the wall where you want it, wire in the HDMI and ethernet, and set it up before I leave.
Typical job: a new TV set up and installed for a customer who had been let down by several engineers. I brought the tools needed and finished the job.
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New dishes and aerials fitted, satellite and aerial feeds extended to another room, Virgin Media points moved, old coax tidied.
Typical job: wiring from the front of a house to the very rear, then a new aerial connection from one bedroom to another. Both in one review.
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Damaged, chewed, tangled or badly fitted cabling tested first, re-run where it needs it, and left labelled.
Typical job: an upstairs home office cable from another engineer, testing at 97 Mbps on a 500 Mbps line, replaced and tested at 547.
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Business and trade
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Data points, switches, patch panels and wall cabinets for shops, offices and small units. Numbered, labelled, tested.
Typical job: a 24-port patch panel and switch in a small wall cabinet, every port numbered, labelled and tested.
After
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First-fix ethernet and coax for extensions, lofts and new builds, in before the plasterboard, on a package or day rate.
Typical job: a bundle of cables through the studs of an extension before the boards go on, coiled and labelled at the router point ready for second fix.
Not sure which one you need?
Tell me what's wrong, not what you think you need. "Xbox lags upstairs", "internet drops every evening", "want the TV on the wall with no wires showing". I'll tell you what it needs and what that involves.
Every job
The bits that are the same on every job
- A quote before anything starts.
- Cat6 for new runs, unless there's a reason not to.
- Outside cable clipped along the mortar line, with a grommet and a drip loop where it enters the wall, so water runs off, not in.
- Inside, behind skirting or in slim trunking, or through the loft and under floors where that's neater.
- Every socket tested with a cable tester before I pack up.
- Labels on the faceplate, written by hand, so you know which port goes where in five years' time.
- Dust sheet down, mess gone with me.
Had craig round to run some wiring from the front of the house to the very rear of the property. Then had him install a new aerial connection from a bedroom to another. Clean, tidy, polite, even highlight start went the extra mile highlight end to ensure the wiring was fit for purpose by building a section for it to go over my rear gate. In all the guy is amazing. Will definitely recommend and use his services again. Cheers craig
Send me a photo of the problem.
Your postcode, where the router is, where you want it to end up. That's enough for most quotes.