Hiding TV cable
Discussion
I've had Sky install their cable into the loft and now want to cut a hole behind the wall mounted TV/Skybox in the bedroom below, feed the cable down from the loft and out the hole, I've been up in the loft and it's well boarded out but had a look under the insulation where it isn't and where the wall appears to be there seems to be a plasterboard layer and behind it a sandwich of honeycomb card, house built late 90's.
Am I going about it all wrong, was just hoping to avoid chasing in, normally I'm a push it under the carpet type but the house has solid floors through out and the TV isn't going on an outside wall.
Any ideas?
Am I going about it all wrong, was just hoping to avoid chasing in, normally I'm a push it under the carpet type but the house has solid floors through out and the TV isn't going on an outside wall.
Any ideas?
That sounds like a better plan than taking 15 goes to find the opening pushing down from the loft, tricky bit is going to be finding some suitable 'rod' that's strong enough to pierce the card and stay vertical but with enough bend to get into the wall in the first place. I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and get cutting holes in my nice new walls. 
It's a stud wall, as much as I like the idea of hiding the Sky box in the loft there's a DVD player too and that might not be the most practical thing to put up there. 
The TV, which is a quite light small one will be on the wall above the Sky/DVD boxes which sit on a chest of drawers so its a hole behind the TV for the power/HDMI/SCART to go down from, and a hole behind the chest of drawers for the sky feed to come out of and up to the Sky box and the power/HDMI/SCART.
I just need grow a pair and make some cuts in the wall.
The TV, which is a quite light small one will be on the wall above the Sky/DVD boxes which sit on a chest of drawers so its a hole behind the TV for the power/HDMI/SCART to go down from, and a hole behind the chest of drawers for the sky feed to come out of and up to the Sky box and the power/HDMI/SCART.
I just need grow a pair and make some cuts in the wall.
Unfortunately the TV is bang in the middle of a wall, a door either side, wood floor I can't push anything under, and it's internal, so no 'easy' solution, I'm counting myself lucky there's a power point on the section of wall, and an old skool coax aerial socket I might be able to utilise. I've got another TV to hang in the lads bedroom to get my eye in but that's easier as it's not linked to Sky and I've not got to look at my handy work every night.
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