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Spiff,

If you get the wires installed into the wall, where are they going from there?....ie, will they run along the baseboards?...under the rug?..or are you looking to get it run across the room through the ceiling? You mentioned your cable and sub....Wouldn't you want those connections in the same general area as your receiver?

Fishing wire up the wall isn't too hard. However, where you are going from there is what will make it a trickier proposition.

Give more precise details and we might be able to guide you. I was terrified w/ I first installed in-walls into a vaulted ceiling. But, once I got going, I found that it wasn't rocket science.

spiff, you are paying for someone's education and abilities. we like to use the saying here, when you pay peanuts, sometimes you get monkeys.
dan

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If you get the wires installed into the wall, where are they going from there?....ie, will they run along the baseboards?...under the rug?..or are you looking to get it run across the room through the ceiling? You mentioned your cable and sub....Wouldn't you want those connections in the same general area as your receiver?

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The tv cable enters the room from the rear. Unfortunately, the TV will be in the front of the room. The subwoofer cable will of course plug into the receiver, which is in the front of the room (with the TV), but the subwoofer itself will be sitting in the back of the room. (Ironically right next to where the cable tv cable enters the room!) Lastly of course are the QS8's.

I'll try to post a picture to give you an idea what I'm trying to do.

Inside the baseboards may work. Though I'm not sure that's enough space for a cable tv coax, subwoofer cable, and speaker wire.

I've got another guy stopping by today to give me an estimate.


Here's a layout drawing. The floors are hardwood, the walls are plaster. There's no crawlspace underneath. No attic above.

Ooooh, plaster walls are a different story altogether...

Honestly, I think your best option is to go under the carpet along the walls (so you have any "speed bumps" in the middle of your room).

I don't have carpeting. It's hardwood floors.

duhhh.... sorry. I was mid-coffee when I posted that. Do you have baseboards? As haoleb mentioned, there's usually a gap between the wall and the edged of the flooring to allow for expansion of the wood.

I have also heard of folks using a router to "carefully" rout a groove in the back of the baseboard (out of sight) to add space to accomodate wiring.

I think that would be dependant on the thickness and composition of the baseboards...

Just something I heard once...

WhatFurrer

No its because of the warm climate. When you don't have to put footings below the frost line at say 5 feet, so that you're not more than half way to a basement already, the money gets spent above ground. California soils and seismic loads require more expensive reinforcing to masonry/concrete than the soils of the glaciated north.

Depending on your baseboards, you might be able to rip off the quarter round and replace it with this stuff. Then you can use the various other cable raceway adapters they have to get it to where you need.

I found a resource that might be of use:

http://www.handymanweb.com/categorie.php?x=1&cat=99&s=California

You might try contacting the first guy under TV/Audio repair.