Lee Reynolds

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Just wondering what youve done with the power cable? Have you run it behind the plaster then brought it out to a socket low down or have you taken it down the wall behind the plaster to a fused spur?

Also, any pics of your set ups to give me ideas?
And, is there a best height for it to be mounted?

St3V3_C

This is mine, all the cables go through into the understairs cupboard on the right





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Lee Reynolds

lmao you rough fooker steve

frosty

This is ours mate, built a breeze block wall to mount the tv on, then put all electrics in , then built wall around the tv, the dvd wires come through the a hole in the cement just level with the dvd player so you can't see them......

RC4

that looks cool as fcuk

nice set up mate

Lee Reynolds

nice set up frosty...you got good ideas your kitchen looked great too. Thats where i lack, im a VERY good builder in many aspects BUT where actuall design and ideas are concerned i leave that to others

Lee Reynolds

ps frosty whats the LG like...BIG BARGAINS with LG at mo in currys near me but im like...nah ill get sony or pana etc

St3V3_C

LOL. It's a bit neater now

Si B

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Both set ups above look , but I think a replica of Frosty's will make its way into my place!

Si

Thrush

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Unless you are doing something cool like Frosty's set up (which I think looks hella cool!!!) the best way is to channel the wall out and "chase" the cables into it. Use an angle grinder to channel out the wall, and run cables inside some conduit. Important! Run MORE cables than you need! In fact run a cable for every input the TV has! Why? Cos at least then you can plug in extra stuff you might want to in the future!

Wherever your wire need to come out, you can get some cool wall boxes for them on the web - either with proper terminates on them (like scarts, HDMI, phono etc) or a simple double-socket box with a hole in it to push cables through. Position this behind whatever kit you have.

I need to do this with my speaker cable for the rears, but I don't want to get into decorating my lounge! So for the time being it's tacked around the skirting and taped down aross the door way runs!

Lee Reynolds

Thrush ive no need to channel mate, its going on a stud wall. Ill also be fitting the dvd and sky into the wall too so they are inset Behind it is beneath the stair which isnt accesable so its ideal to inset them

I think i maight create an access panel in the tumble dryer cupboard which is also under the stairs, and put the sockets there actually, so ive got no sockets or anything showing in the room at all

i do like the idea of having speaker terminals tho

Also, a guy i used to work for had a massive house and had the pros in to fit his room out with surround sound, and his rear speakers were ceiling height...kinda like alarm infra red jobbies lol...and it sounded awesome...but i thought the rear went at ear level

RichardPON

How do you get cabling past the horizontal supports in the stud wall then mate?

Cut a piece of plasterboard out and channel a groove out - noggin type of thing?

Lee Reynolds

no just drill a hole through the stud rich...

Ideally if its 75mm studding you dont drill much more than an 18mm hole

Or, do you mean by 'dropping' the cable down? If so then yeah youd have to channel, but as im removing some plasterboard to create the insets for the dvd and sky boxes i can feed all my cableing at the same time...

on other cases, you might find you dont have noggins Depends whats centres the studs are...or if they are wood or ali studs

Daveysaff

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Thats what you want Just need to paint a 10x6 foot screen on the wall and you're away!!

zippyobrien

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ive been working on a set up like this at work,

we made a flase wall using batton then 18mm ply then plaster board then plasered, made the skirting at the bottom removable, and made some glass shelving in an old fire place (once i knocked it out with a sledge )

then just cut a square out behing the telle and went fishing for all the cable with the skirting of, can see no wires at all and looks a pukka job,

ill try get a pici tommorow,

RichardPON

Cheers Lee - much as I thought

frosty

its good m8, its a 50 inch plasma, we got a 32 inch LCD samsung in the bedroom which i think is better, we sold this house now and if the buyer wants to buy the LG and we buy another for the new house i think we will probably go for a 50 inch LCD sony or something like that, but , no, can't fault the LG really.....

S3an

mine

all cables etc channeled into walls





living room just stand mounted

topaz

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Cables are fed though the void in the plasterboard and out though the other side skirting into the 'guts' of the system in another room (toilet cupboard) you can see the cables running in a cable tidy above the skirting in the bathroom. Its all controlled by a radio pronto including a 400 disk dvd changer which you can select which movie you want on screen. Subwoofer is in third cupboard along.

frog

Here's mine in gory details. The white pipes aren't for water, they're there for future possible cable needs, although I have run every cable the plasma screen currently accepts

CossieRich

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Greg,

Thats proper smart mate. Nice one

Lee Reynolds