How To Remove Old Wire Pole From Roof

A reader wants to remove cable wires from the side of a home.

How to remove old wire pole from roof.

Any wires that are on the customer side of the network interface device belong to the customer. The cables will be attached just inside the plastic housing and you can loosen them with the 7 16 wrench or an adjustable wrench. Cut the wires at the boxes and at the pole. The previous homeowners had a giant antenna installed on one side of the roof.

Yes you can remove them but make sure you are not using them. It s a good question one i ve pondered as i hate all the ugly wires cluttering the outside of my house. There s a thick gray cord coming from the antenna down the side of the house and into the house though i m not sure what it connects to. If wires are coming in off a pole the very top wires are pepco.

Carefully cut any cable ties and gently pull the wire back away from the dish. I m positive it s legal for you to remove the cables you don t want it is your house. From there it runs along the wall just below the roof for several metres then it hangs for a couple of meters and abruptly ends. Tell them that wires are down in your yard where children can play with them.

Your best bet is to walk into the local comcast customer office off chad drive. Call the local telephone company. Using some components left over from a former satellite install made converting to an off air antenna rather easy. Basically i just bought a house and there is what i suspect to be an old overhead bt phone line that runs from a pole beyond the boundary of my back garden to my house.

Call the utilities and request removal the same way you would have to if you were putting new siding on your house and needed then removed temporally. A safe way to get rid of all those old cable and phone wires. If i knew for sure they were old phone and cable i d just cut them loose from the house carefully move them back to the pole coil them up and staple them to the pole. Throw them in the garbage.

They will make a message report and be out the same day. Sometimes cable backfeeds into the jack to send the telephone to other parts of the house. Now let s see what we can pull in from 45. It s tethered to the roof with five or six cables.