Re: Wires Through Walls

[Lewis Gardner <lgardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BrianEWilliams wrote:

> The idea I have is to drill a large hole through
> two pieces of wallboard and run the wires through
> that.
>
> Anyone know if something like this is available?

Something that is a little larger than what you are looking for but
would still work are plumbing access panels. If you go to homedepot.com
and enter Access Able in the search box you should get 4 results with
access panels between 6"x9" and 14"x29". To install these simply cut a
hole in the drywall and glue the frame to the drywall with RTV. I
usually cut a radiused hole on one corner for the final wire bundle to
exit the removable panel.

In my den where the big TV resides I mounted all the jacks inside the
wall cavity by attaching Panduit surface mount boxes with bottom exit
jacks to the drywall with RTV. The finished result looks good since
there a neat 1.25" diameter bundle of wires exiting the lower right
corner of the panel instead of a zillion connectors on the wall. In this
case I couldn't put the jacks behind the TV since the wall back there is
solid masonry.

When the panel is no longer needed just replace the cut panel with a new
one or cut the entire frame out of the drywall and patch the hole with a
piece of drywall.