Mounting TV to wall

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CARNaG3za

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Hi All,

I eventually got around to buying a new plasma stand this weekend.
This now allows me to mount my TV to my wall.

Decided to go for mount that has the tilt feature.

What I want to find out is what has everyone else done with the cabling to the TV from the AV receiver?
I don't want trunking running down the wall to hide the cables, so I'm guessing I would need to cut out a channel in the wall.
Placing conduit in the wall that one could use to run the cables in and plastering the wall up again?

Ideas are welcome.
Stand only arrives in 3 weeks, so have a bit of time to play with ideas.
 
CARNaG3za said:
Hi All,

I eventually got around to buying a new plasma stand this weekend.
This now allows me to mount my TV to my wall.

Decided to go for mount that has the tilt feature.

What I want to find out is what has everyone else done with the cabling to the TV from the AV receiver?
I don't want trunking running down the wall to hide the cables, so I'm guessing I would need to cut out a channel in the wall.
Placing conduit in the wall that one could use to run the cables in and plastering the wall up again?

Ideas are welcome.
Stand only arrives in 3 weeks, so have a bit of time to play with ideas.
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What's behind the wall it's mounted on?
 
Why not use trunking... its a lot easier to do and its a lot more expandable/accessible.

You can paint the trunking the same colour as the wall.
 
My experience: The moment I fix something permanently, a better idea comes along - I simply use those zip-zap thingies the advertise at Verimark.
 
I wall mounted my TV a while back and only got to "hide" the cables over the holidays.
Luckily my garage is next to the wall where I mounted my TV in the living room. Armed with a SDS Drill and some long drill bits, I drilled through into the garage @ 2 places, in the middle @ the back of the TV and right above the skirting behind the cabinet where my AV receiver, xbox etc are. Cables run through the back of the TV into skirting in the garage and back into the living room.
 
musha said:
I wall mounted my TV a while back and only got to "hide" the cables over the holidays.
Luckily my garage is next to the wall where I mounted my TV in the living room. Armed with a SDS Drill and some long drill bits, I drilled through into the garage @ 2 places, in the middle @ the back of the TV and right above the skirting behind the cabinet where my AV receiver, xbox etc are. Cables run through the back of the TV into skirting in the garage and back into the living room.
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I will be doing the same thing as well.

Building a garage behind the wall the TV is mounted on, all the cabling will get taken out of the quarter round trunking and put through the wall and run on the garage wall in trunking instead. All invisible but easily accessible if I need to move something or change its location.
 
You could use this kind of trunking (i currently use it, and its all but invisible once painted)

Half_moon_Shape_PVC_Cable_Duct.jpg
 
What I did was run the wires on the other side of the wall and trunk them there. Just be prepared, those HDMI connectors need big holes and I wouldn't suggest cutting the wire and trying to reconnect.
 
I've had great success using a wooden cornice for this kind of thing, although I've getting your cabling down in the corner is a bit of an extra drama.

I've sure you could fine something that doesn't look like crappy plastic trunking that can be painted and still look quite decent.

Personally it's one of the reasons I've never bothered wall mounting.
 
CARNaG3za said:
So no one has done the channel idea?
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I did.
I bought 2 light switch boxes and 30mm aluminium tv antenna pole then used a hole saw to fit the pole in the boxes. Some angle grinding and chiselling till it all fit then I used steel nails to keep it all in place while filling.

Was a very messy job and it needs one more filling sanding and painting to look perfect but looks good without cables.
 
Beachless said:
I did.
I bought 2 light switch boxes and 30mm aluminium tv antenna pole then used a hole saw to fit the pole in the boxes. Some angle grinding and chiselling till it all fit then I used steel nails to keep it all in place while filling.

Was a very messy job and it needs one more filling sanding and painting to look perfect but looks good without cables.
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Why use the light switch boxes?

My thought was 2x 45 degree PVC curves for each end and a normal PVC pipe to join the two.
Would obviously get the right size pipe though.
 
CARNaG3za said:
Why use the light switch boxes?

My thought was 2x 45 degree PVC curves for each end and a normal PVC pipe to join the two.
Would obviously get the right size pipe though.
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Just for future proofing if I dont need it anymore I can just put blanks over the box and it wont look too bad. I am thinking of enlaging my house and posibly moving the tv location.
 
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