Home Theater Forum  ›  Forums  ›  Home Theater  ›  Members Theaters and HT Projects  ›  Help Needed: Pulling wire to other side of room
Forum Nav More Forums | All New Posts | New Thread

Help Needed: Pulling wire to other side of room

#1
Rating: 0
1/1/08 at 2:04pm
  • Joined: December 2007
  • Location: Aurora, IL
  • Post Count: 3
Hi all, like many have said in their first post, I JUST discovered this site. I must say, there are many of you with a wealth of knowlegde and experience and hope someone can offer me some insight. I have lived in a townhouse for the past 5 years and have never installed a surround sound system in my living room. I have one up stairs in by bedroom since it was fairly easy to run the wires through the attic and such. NOW, I would like to install surround sound in my living room. I have all the equipment and it is a very modest set-up (Panasonic 36", Panasonic DVD, Directv Tivo, Yahama Receiver, Harman Kardon Speakers). I don't want to do any major modification, as i most likely will be selling it in a year or 2.

This is my dilemna. HOW to get wire to the other side of the room! I have attached a layout of my living room. It has two different parts... one with the furniture and proposed speaker locations, the other with the direction the joists in the ceiling run for that room. Above my living room is another bedroom, below my living room is a concrete slab. (room is approx 16 X 15)

I searched extensively in the forums, but was unable to find postings relating to my "common" problem. I assume I am going to have to go through the joists, but what is the easiest way to do that? Or is there a trick I am just missing.

Thanks in advance,

Dan
525x525px-LL-vbattach700.pdf
Export to Wiki
#2
Rating: 0
1/2/08 at 6:33am
  • Joined: May 2007
  • Post Count: 8

Re: Help Needed: Pulling wire to other side of room

Quote:
Originally Posted by cunoodle
NOW, I would like to install surround sound in my living room. I have all the equipment and it is a very modest set-up (Panasonic 36", Panasonic DVD, Directv Tivo, Yahama Receiver, Harman Kardon Speakers). I don't want to do any major modification, as i most likely will be selling it in a year or 2.

Above my living room is another bedroom, below my living room is a concrete slab. (room is approx 16 X 15)

Or is there a trick I am just missing.

What is on the floor for a covering? You can lay the wires under it, adjacent to the tack strips. Is their molding along the wall/floor junction? You can raise it slightly, or hollow out behind it.
Worked for me. YMMV
Export to Wiki
#3
Rating: 0
1/2/08 at 12:01pm
  • Joined: December 2007
  • Location: Aurora, IL
  • Post Count: 3

Re: Help Needed: Pulling wire to other side of room

Quote:
Originally Posted by starrin
What is on the floor for a covering? You can lay the wires under it, adjacent to the tack strips. Is their molding along the wall/floor junction? You can raise it slightly, or hollow out behind it.
Worked for me. YMMV

Sorry, it is all carpeting. Except by the front door/closet area there is tile. There is a small metal transition there from carpeting/tile. Everything else is carpeting, including between staircase and fireplace. Since the carpeting is on a slab, I assume it is glued. I was talking with another person, and they suggested adding a larger transition by the front door and running the cables underneath it and then tucking them under the trim. Thoughts?

Thanks again. I know this is problem the least complex problem on the board, but would rather work a little smarter (relying on you guys) than harder.

Dan
Export to Wiki
#4
Rating: 0
1/2/08 at 12:16pm
  • Joined: August 2000
  • Location: Southaven, MS
  • Post Count: 4,494

Re: Help Needed: Pulling wire to other side of room

Quote:
Originally Posted by cunoodle
Since the carpeting is on a slab, I assume it is glued.
Don't assume. I'd say that 99 percent of carpet even on slabs is installed without glue. What happens if you need to remove it? I'm on a slab and I can feel the tack strip in every room that has carpet.

-Robert
Export to Wiki
#5
Rating: 0
1/2/08 at 1:57pm
  • Joined: May 2007
  • Post Count: 8

Re: Help Needed: Pulling wire to other side of room

Quote:
Originally Posted by cunoodle
Since the carpeting is on a slab, I assume it is glued. I was talking with another person, and they suggested adding a larger transition by the front door and running the cables underneath it and then tucking them under the trim. Thoughts?

Now that you have stopped assuming and checked it, what did you find.
What trim? I already suggested running it under the molding (trim?) at the bottom of the wall.

BTW, my carpet is not glued to my slab either
Export to Wiki
#6
Rating: 0
1/2/08 at 8:12pm
  • Joined: December 2007
  • Location: Aurora, IL
  • Post Count: 3

Re: Help Needed: Pulling wire to other side of room

Quote:
Originally Posted by starrin
Now that you have stopped assuming and checked it, what did you find.
What trim? I already suggested running it under the molding (trim?) at the bottom of the wall.

BTW, my carpet is not glued to my slab either

Sorry, was at work and I was "assuming" that it was glued! It is not glued down. SO now I will assume I should pull it under the carpet.

Is there any advantage to using CL3 under carpet due to the wear and tear on the wires? or would a standard 14 AWG be fine?

Thanks again all,

Dan
Export to Wiki
#7
Rating: 0
1/3/08 at 4:21am
  • Joined: January 2005
  • Post Count: 1,573

Re: Help Needed: Pulling wire to other side of room

No, CL3 is not necessary under carpet, only behind walls and would be too bulky in fact.

I know enough to know I don't know enough!

Export to Wiki
Forum Nav More Forums | All New Posts | New Thread