Unknown cables

Got a digital camera and could post photos somewhere ?

Dave

Alarm? A bit more description of the type of cable might help - how many, what colour, twisted, screened, type of termination?

What are the cables like ?

Which wall ? Near the front of the house ? On a South facing wall ?

Any sign of an old satellite dish outside ?

As a guess, it might be cable TV. If they're co-ax cables, then this would be very likely.

Alarm?

I had similar - never found out what it was but the house was an old Housing association house and may have had some warden call or care call system to a central post locally - mine had 6 or 8 cores and "funny" connectors at the socket outlet - flat blade connectors like some sort of pre-historic network

Nick

"DrFish" wrote | We have 4 small white boxes on the lounge skirting board with a few | cables in some of them. Doesn't look like the phone or mains cable. | Can't seem to find what they are for anywhere on the web. My | father-in-law who is a DIY enthusiast had no idea either. | In case it helps the house is about 8 years old.

Loudspeaker extensions for stereo or surround sound?

Owain

What does the cable look like? Alarm cable is pretty similar to phone cable at a glance. Perhaps you could describe it - diameter etc and say what the colours on the conductors insulation are? Although WTF anyone would put junction boxes on the skirting for *anything* escapes me... And where the cables seem to go to?

Unlikely to be anything to do with phones, then.

I'll try and get some photos sorted, should make life a bit easier for everyone.

I must admit my guess was heading towards audio. Curiously the previous occupants of the house didn't mention anything to us about them at all.