RE: Audio Cable dilemma

[Clive Dilley <clive@xxxxxxx>]

I am not sure if you have had this suggestion, so here goes -

I was lucky in that I pre-wired a new house with loads of wire before we
moved in. However even with miles of the stuff buried in plaster, I still
have found new areas to install wire. I have hidden this new cable behind
coving - this allows wire to be taken all around a room completely
invisibly. Of course the wire then needs to be dropped down somewhere - the
same would be true if you did it with skirting only upwards.

Removing and re-installing skirting-board achieves roughly the same thing
but can be much harder, as wood splits, walls get damaged and joints never
look the same. Installing coving is easy and generally gives the
walls/ceiling a nicer finish (that's what the wife says).

I would recommend plaster coving (not the other stuff) as it gives a much
better finish. You can get it almost anywhere, but the 3m lengths are more
useful.  If you need to join to straight length's together then mitre them
(don't butt them) as this again looks better.

This assumes that you don't have coving of course.......

One other thought - smarthome.com sell audio wire that is so thin that it
can be stuck on walls and painted over.

-----Original Message-----
From:	M McAree Jr [SMTP:michael.mcaree@xxxxxxx]
Sent:	Thursday, June 15, 2000 9:27 AM
To:	ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject:	RE: [ukha_d] Audio Cable dilemma



> How big is the expansion gap around the edge of the wooden floor?  I'm
> assuming it's a 'floating floor', as you say it's on a solid base. 
There
> might be room there, as long as you leave 10mm or the minimum
> required for
> floor movement.


I think the only option is to remove the skirting and arcitrave and hide
the
cable behind it. Its not such a difficult  job, except for the curving
piece
of skirting. I gave her a few samples of speaker cable last night to which
she replied "theres a black line on it !". I proposed Pauls idea
of the
masking tape painted over but I think both of us would be happier just
taking off the skirting. The problem is that the room was gutted in
September including the removal of a chimney and changing of door location
so anything that doesn't conform to the smooth wall scenario that we have
at
the minute is a step in the wrong direction. Pity I didn't get into HA etc
a
bit sooner.

Many thanks for all your help.

Michael
BELFAST




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