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Ken, I think's Mark's idea is the easiest and will leave you with the least damage when/if you decide to rearrange the room. Woo Hoo! After 7 years and howevermany posts, I might have gotten something right????
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Expensive, though. I'm looking at ~$80-100 in raceways, at least from Home Despot.
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Ken, since Jen has blessed the exposed wire option, I'd surface mount with wall-color-painted raceways. As for how to work around the chair rail, you could cut a small section out of it, shave/dremel a channel through the back so there's room for the wire to pass behind it, then nail the section back into place over the wire. Any small remaining gaps could be easily filled/hidden with wood putty or paintable caulk.
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I've used the paintable wiremold raceways. I have them on the floor (epoxyed concrete w/ no carpet) in my living room. But I had them painted the same color as the wall that they're up against. You can't even see it. I actually bought them while the painters were working and had them paint it.
BTW, fishing up the wall may not always work. In most of my houses, there was a horizontal 'firebox'/stud. around 3' or 4'. You'd have to drill through that (behind the drywall) to fully fish it up the wall.
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I think Mark just likes saying "my raceway."
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Ken, I think's Mark's idea is the easiest and will leave you with the least damage when/if you decide to rearrange the room.
n.b. When removing anything attached to a painted surface, it's best to razor score all of the edges first. It will help keep the damage within the scored marks.
I like the profile-edged mounting plate. Sort of makes the QS's look like mounted big game trophies.
And though I DO like to scare people, it's not with this kind of stuff. Just wanted to point out the possible downsides before you dive into to something that's gonna get bigger that you imagined.
That clamshell (profile name) bsbd., (I think it is--it sure is on the window apron) may not sink before the floor level if it had been removed before the mfg'd. floor went down, then reapplied. It may be worth finding out. If it does sit on top of the floor, it'd be way easy to get off. Even if you damage it while removing it, it's only about $1.50 per linear foot. You'd still likely have to do some re-caulking and some edge painting.
Boy, this "being helpful" thing hurts. No swearing, no smarmy comments. Now I gotta go and find someone else's post to screw with. And Bob, don't worry. Maybe you didn't swear but you used lot's of dirty words. "Easiest", "score", "mounting", "dive into to something", & "gonna get bigger that you imagined". And that was just in the first half of your post. The second half gets even better.
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What do you expect.. look at the title.LOL
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Ken c i am in the same situation of you are, i just get a new pair of Qs-8 & i want a good wiring job.
How about put your QS on stands (FMS-Q) so wire won't run on wall.
but standard height is 38in, for my application, 42in will be fine, i actually waiting a reply from AXIOM if they can make it at custom height.(like the other stands), but this isn't a cheap solution, the standard stands are 300$/pr.
i'll keep you posted.
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