How to Install Cable TV Outlet Box, Wall Plate & Patch Walls

In this video we show you how to install a cable TV outlet box into the drywall, then add a cable TV wall plate for a more professional look. You do a project like this if you cave a plain cable TV wire sticking out of a hole in the wall.

How to install a cable pass through wall plate

The cable outlet box is added into a hole cut in the drywall and secured to the drywall to allow the coaxial wall plates with cable TV outlet built into to secure to the front of the cable outlet box. Then the cable wall outlet plate is screwed onto the front of the cable outlet box.

How to install cable outlet

After the cable wall outlet installation, we show you how to remove the old cable outlet box from the wall, and how to install cable outlet plates onto the wall. The cable wall plate looks so professional compared to the old cable TV wire coming out of a hole in the wall. make sure to get extra wide cable wall outlet covers.

How to Install Cable TV Outlet Box

These are wider cable wall plates, usually 3/8" wider than a normal coaxial cable wall cover. You'll find that building a coax cable wall plate installation onto the cable outlet box is pretty easy. In this video we'll show you how to patch walls around the cable tv wall outlet before you screw in the cable wall plate. So always be sure to get an oversized coaxial wall plate.

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Cable TV outlet connection and coax cable wall outlet plates

Coaxial wall plates usually come with the coaxial cable connector on both sides of the cable tv wall outlet. If your cable inside the wall has the F-connector built onto the end of it, then you just screw the coaxial cable onto the interior side of the coaxial wall plate.

coax cable wall plate installation

After this, your cable wall outlet installation will be complete once you secure the cable wall plate to the cable outlet box that you just installed onto the drywall. It's quite easy to connect cable wall outlet covers. Be sure to always use a metal cable plate, because the plastic cable plates are useless. After this, we'll show you how to patch walls once the cable outlet wall plate is installed. Now you know how to install cable outlet boxes.

cable tv wall outlet installation is complete

We hope you found this video useful and you now know how to install a cable pass through wall plate. Now installing a coaxial wall plate will be a breeze for you. Now you can help your friends install cable plates. Good luck with your cable wall plate installation.