Hello everyone,

Pardon my general lack of knowledge and inexperience when it comes to this sort of stuff.

I'm helping my mom manage a town-home that we rent out. The tenant recently left and of course there are several things to-do. One thing that caught my eye is they ran a cable through the exterior wall into the house for satellite TV.

My question, how do i patch that up?
1. Patch the outside wall?
2. Fill the hole with...?
3. Patch the inside wall?

I'm sure this is easier than I'm making it out to be, but more specifics the better! I have LITTLE DIY knowledge.

Thank you!
-rudy

 

I'm not sure i made it clear in my first post, but i will be removing the coax TV cable, and i will need to patch up that entire hole. I'm assuming the whole needs to be filled somehow....

thanks again!
-rudy

 

Are you sure you don't want to just leave it for the next tenants? They will likely want cable/sat as well. There is ways to make it look neater.

If you still want to patch it what is the inside and outside walls made out of?

 

Some pics might help - http://forum.doityourself.com/electr...your-post.html

If the hole is no bigger than the coax, caulking may be a good enough fix although it might be better to leave it as suggested above.

btw - welcome to the forums Rudy!

 

I would fill it with caulk from the outside and put a "blank plate on the inside , simple and cheap easy to reuse if needed

 

Actually the next tenant will be a family member and Direct TV is not part of the foreseeable future. That and it looks really ugly!

Thank you for the suggestions and for the warm welcome to the forums!

-rudy

PS: I'll definitely get some pics! I won't be going to the property until this weekend, but i will definitely share!

 

What kind of exterior wall is it? Where is the new jack going to be for the regular coax? Directv should of tapped into the previous ran line if there was one but since they did a new hole you can either leave the faceplate on the interior and disconnect the cable and pull it out on the outside and just throw a dab of silicone in the hole or you can try to use a patch that matches your exterior and do a patch that matches your interior wall and just paint over.