RE: Audio Cable dilemma

["M McAree Jr" <michael.mcaree@xxxxxxx>]

I like the masking tape idea Paul. The skirting is just varnished and the
walls painted. Just got the room replastered a few months ago - well before
I got into HA etc. I put the feelers out regarding the painted masking tape
idea, but I think it just might fly :-)

Michael
BELFAST

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 June 2000 16:02
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Audio Cable dilemma
>
>
>
> >As you all know any form of cabling is not Wife-Friendly but my
> problem is
> >that I have to cable my surround speakers around the skirting
board and
> >door
> >frame to position them in the room. I have solid floors and a
> wooden floor
>
> Do you have the skirting painted white?
>
> In my house, I have been able to run the speaker cable under
> floors, and had
> a lot plastered into the walls, but there are still a few places
(rooms I
> haven't renovated yet), where I also have to run speaker cables along
the
> skirting board. I have found that the white plastic trunking
> available from
> any of the DIY sheds is almost invisible when secured along the
> top edge of
> the skirting - my skirting boards are just "planks" with a
square
> top - if
> you have bullnose / chamfered / ogee profiled skirting, you may
> have to fix
> it to the face of the board, running it along the floor. - I have
> done both,
> and results are fully wife-approved....
>
> Another trick I have used, but it only works if you have emulsioned
walls
> (and you sill have some of the original emulsion left) is to run
> cables in
> the corner joins either in the corner of the room, or in the
> 90-degree join
> between the wall and the door architrave, then stick it down with
masking
> tape, and emulsion over it with the original paint. I have done
> this in one
> instance where I decided to move a pair of speakers to a new
> location where
> I had not previously thought to run spare cables in the walls, and the
> results are again almost totally invisible and fully
> wife-approved. Results
> are best if you have a textured wallpaper like Anaglypta.
>
> HTH.
>
> Paul G.
>
>
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