Hiding speaker cables (1 Viewer)

[arbysauce]

I recently bought a receiver, speakers and sub in order to build a decent 5.1 setup. Now that I have the placement that I want, I am looking to hide the cables but I am reluctant to hire someone to do it for me. The room has hardwood floors and the house has a crawl space. Would it be possible to run the cables under the floor or would it be better to run them through the walls which are plaster? Also, I would like to hide the HDMI cable from the tv which is mounted on the wall above the fireplace as well as the cables from the center channel speaker that is sitting on the mantle below the tv (the receiver sits about 12 inches left of the tv, about 30 inches below). Any suggestions?

 

[Robert_J]

Hopefully Wayne will be along with his tutorial on hiding wires in walls.

I'd run the wires through the crawl space. There is less drilling that way. Through the walls will require drilling through every wall stud. Through the crawl space only requires drilling through the bottom plate hopefully.

You will need in-wall rated cables (speaker, HDMI and whatever else you decide to run). As for running near a fireplace, you will have to make sure the wires do not get too hot. Finally, mounting a TV above a fireplace is a very bad idea. Not because of heat or difficulty of running wires, it's literally a pain in the neck to have to look up all the time.

-Robert

 

[Kevin Stewart]

Take the TV off the wall and put it on a nice lowboy. Won't have to worry about as many cables and it will be a better visual experience. Run the wires to the side speakers via the crawlspace.

 

[Classa64]

My hardware is mounted in a closet wall and i drilled 1-1/2 inch holes right behind my equipment and into the drop ceiling in the basement, very handy and back up through the floor directly behind the speakers for a clean wireless look. Crawlspace would be the best I would say , once there in the wall there stuck there. Running cable to the wall mounted TV will be easy if you can find a cable stay plastic run channel to cover it with, I can send you a pic if ya want looks good and clean as I did it with my projector and rear speakers. The power cord for my projector is hidden as well , this is a earlier pic.

Cheers

 

[Wayne A. Pflughaupt]

Here ya go - see the link in my signature. Ten thousand hits and counting!

Still, plaster walls - ugh. I don't hold out much hope for anything in-wall there. Probably best to use surface-mounted channel...

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt