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Best way of laying speaker Cable

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  • 16-06-2006 4:24pm
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    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,724 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    guys

    Am down laying the timber flooring in the hoose. So I want to run speaker cable for the speaker, any advice on best way to do this?
    As in under the timber, under the skirting?
    thanks


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    Spocker
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    Hey yop, good to see the project is progressing. If there will be a gop between the bottom of the drywall and the floor, stick the cable in there; the skirting will then cover no problem.

    Unless your going for the flat cable to put under the floorboards I'd stick with it in the wall.


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    Moanin
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    I layed mine on the concrete before the solid timber floor was put on this.Its down now 3 years and no probs.The only prob putting it behind the skirting boards is what if you need to run the cable from one side of the fireplace to the other?


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    overdriver
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    You can also run it under coving, if you're putting any up.

    I used flat cable under the wooden flooring. Mine is laid on battens, and it was easy just to skirt around that. A good ide is to have it come out into a neat junction box, and to run a second set of cables to the other side of the fireplace in case you change your room around.


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    yop
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    In the end yesters I went around the walls and cut a piece out of the bottom of the plasterboard behind the skirting and then installed the cable in this.!
    I think it works ok. Not ideal but sure it will have to do!


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    galwaydude18
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    I would have routed out a grove in the back of the skirting and placed the speaker cable in there! nice and neat and hidden as well!

    How you getting on with laying the skirting?


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    prospect
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    I ran mine under the skirting, in the expansion gap that goes around the floor.


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    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,724 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    Easier to do it in the plasterboard, the cable is heavy cable, about 6mm think, so will 3 runs of it it needed a decent gap.

    Grand, have 1.5 rooms put in place. I got a full threaded screw which is giving a better grip, leaves it easier to fill.


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    galwaydude18
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    how are the gaps between the bottom of the skirting and the floor looking? are you scribing the skirting where it meets in the corners?


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    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,724 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    The da is looking after that project and it is looking damn good.


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