How much does it cost to change the LMB and run an extra cable from a sattelite dish.?

Question

Moved into a new house with a sattelite dish installed. I have sky plus and need a new LMB and an extra cable from the dish. The sky guy quoted 50 quid for the work, how much does it cost third party?

Answer 1

You can get an LNB on ebay for as little as £10 and the cable costs even less. Make sure you use a good qaulity cable like CT100, thats what sky use. The reason he has qouted £50 is because he has over heads and most peolpe won't climb a ladder.

Answer 2

You can certainly do it yourself via ebay as the other suggests, but if you pay a satellite/aerial installer to come round and supply and install the cable (it's WF100 now, CT100 isn't benchmarked) you are looking at £50-00 to £70-00 to do it properly and have a guarantee at the end of it.