How would installers handle a stone house?

[kucharsk]

Here's the situation:

From reading other threads you may have gathered that my Mother-In-Law is looking at having a third box installed and maybe upgrading to HD.

The problem is I know the installers wouldn't route the cables in the somewhat circuitous way the current ones are, going through a garage attic into the basement and up through the floor in the room, but the outside wall is made of flagstone so it's not like they could pull the usual trick of running the cable along the house's eaves and going through the wall into the room.

Any ideas how they would handle this, or would they just say "there's the connector - run your own cable to the LNB and it should all work?"

Thanks in advance…

[SDizzle]

So the outside wall is stone, but the inside walls must be sheetrock and have the ability to be fished? Right? It may take a local specialty home theater type of installer to do it, not a basic free install by a D* installer who does not have the time in his tight schedule to fit something like this in... She will pay a specialty contractor a premium to do this...

[kucharsk]

Well why I'm asking is she lives out of state, so I can't be there to supervise what they do.

I'm wondering if the installer might be willing to just connect the dish and the two H21s replacing the two SD boxes (which obviously already have cables running to them) and would just leave it to us to run the cable for the third box.

I assume from reading that the cable from the third box would just attach directly to the new multi-LNB dish, correct?

Yes, the interior walls are plaster, there's just a flagstone exterior (it actually looks very prairie style/Wright-ish in many ways.)

I'm going out for a visit soon and so would either need to make sure the installer came on a day I was there or would need to have them do the partial install and then I'd need to run the cable for the third box myself while there.

I'm just not sure what SOP is on it, or what the likelihood is of being able to schedule an install for a particular day.

[BattleZone]

I'm wondering if the installer might be willing to just connect the dish and the two H21s replacing the two SD boxes (which obviously already have cables running to them) and would just leave it to us to run the cable for the third box.

Unfortunately, it's unlikely a tech would do that, as doing such is an open invitation to a charge-back. If the job was QC'd, it would fail, or if the customer couldn't figure out how to run the cable and talked to DirecTV, it would fail. There's no way I'd do it, anyway.

I assume from reading that the cable from the third box would just attach directly to the new multi-LNB dish, correct?

Correct.

Your best bet is to run the cable in question BEFORE you have DirecTV come out to do the upgrade.