Audio/Video Installation : How to Run Speaker Wire Through Walls

[putting4bird]

How does the wire get past the fire block?

[misterfilmguy]

Bullshit, indeed

[edenjonesss]

bulllshiititttt



[inlovewithoutdoors]

First of all this is a video done by a friend for ehow, in a house under remodel, while 'having fun' and not anyway a representation of the installer's company. I have worked for him and he has done systems for A-list movie stars, International Royalty, Top Executives for Cisco and 3com, Retired military brass, oil executives, ect....This guy is really good at what he does. He don't need to advertise. His clients don't watch Youtube.

[freakt123]

...I would of hid the wire behind the base boards... since they were not installed.

[rednecknber]

you never found that wire that easy

[thejgtube]

Um how did the wire magically fish to exactly where he had the hole!!! LMAO!

[dusfermc]

Can someone say this guy is a creeper?

[SuperTrooper9000]

Rubbish!!! this guy is an idiot!! Fake, wall changes at 1:15. Wire was in easy corner and then magically jumps through wooden batons to the centre of the room!!!!!!  Thumbs up if you spot it!

[holywar911]

@SuperTrooper9000 lol....your right

[inlovewithoutdoors]

@SuperTrooper9000 Dude, It's obvious that this video was made using clips from other videos and there are different walls. He's not installing it but giving you an example of how to. There are far to many variables to cover in two minutes.

[Lavinco]

@SuperTrooper9000 wall changes because it was painted. Looks like they covered the graffiti between takes.

[hd3020]

Please tell me where you got that hooded faceplate for the wires. I can't find anything like that any where.

[HDHELGY]

@hd3020 I saw one at Menards the other day. I believe they had single gang and double gang covers. I would also guess Lowes or Home Depot would also have them.

[nmarq005]

I would like to know how to hide my wires with the Tv over my fireplace?

[chuckapup]

@nmarq005 Having a TV over a fireplace is a horrible idea.

[nmarq005]

@chuckapup Why is it a horrible idea chuck. i see nothing wrong with it, it's a gas fireplace that hardly gets used. They also do not produce much heat like a wood fireplace. I'm in TX so there are not many cold winters.

[chuckapup]

@nmarq005 If it's a gas fireplace, it will probably be okay. I thought you wanted it above a wood fireplace with smoke and high heat.

[Abraxas20012]

fake walls

[illcrx]

If anyone really wants to wire their room for Audio, DO NOT DO WHAT THIS GUY IS DOING. 1) There is insulation in that wall, your wire will coil up in the wall and go no where. 2) That is a horrible place to put a speaker, 3) He didn't level that low voltage box with the electrical box right next to it.

If you want to do it right, hire a pro.

[av3211]

Hay dude are you a salesman for your company? Coz you sure don’t know about installing wire, at least professionally. Maybe you should get with an installer first.

[MusicforMe123]

How did the speaker wire went from the corner to the middle of the room, I believe there is ummmmmm........ WOOD behind the wall. Looks like there were some steps missing from this vid, maybe that is why the bottom of the wall is all messed up with plaster. What a terrible video demonstration.

[quacktony]

This is so bullshit, you start at the corner but end up in the center of the wall.

[zippyzee]

this is terrible lol

[kayangthao]

huh?

how can you make it goes sideways like that?

I can't! I mean, there is these woods inside the wall that holds the house. i want to run the wire going side ways... not stright down!

[stragoth]

Im an AV installer and just poking the wire into the wall and having it magically appear where you cut your hole? What a load of crap.

[MilleComProducts]

@stragoth Very true - since you're a pro, do you use a push pull or fish rod? I'm looking for some professionals to review and comment. Check out the Mille-Rod at and let me know if you're interested.

[stragoth]

@MilleComProducts

How to describe the item as it has so many terms. Call it a snake or fish rod. Are you familiar with chipboard flooring panels? They have a yellow (or red) plastic strip running along them to join them. This is great for fishing cables out the wall. Its flexible, about 3m long and flat. Can "snake it" from one hole to the other, up the wall into the roof space or down etc. Tie cable on and pull through. Can push through insulation as well. :) Google 'Cavity Rod"

[Apieslapie1]

@stragoth

then please stop making world of warcraft videos make a video showing how to do it!

[thakrim]

Fail at the end loool

[916NCWC]

is it me or did someone hand him the speaker wire from the other side of that wall? I do home theater and ive never seen a flimsy wire drop that length through insulation....

[billiongenius]

If you look at 1:11 and then 1:18, you're on an entirely different section of the wall. I couldn't follow how you got the wire horizontally to area directly below you're mount. You made it look like a straight vertical drop, but really you had to do something else to get to a diagonal position. Not helpful.

[datboiab]

Simple as that through an insulated wall?? In your dreams!

[waynekohl]

@datboiab thats what I was thinking

[xXxREDSOXxXx]

ashame my walls are all brick and plaster

[granthemenway]

I've ran wires through most every type of home for 11 years for an alarm company- I really need to set up some vids for this. There's so much to be learned.

[DRBagabundo]

Please do so, all I can find is crap videos. I need some tips on running wires in-wall in an apartment.

[mt7558]

I hope you own that apartment!

[inlovewithoutdoors]

I have also used grout lines in tile along the edge of the wall to hide wires. remove the grout, run the wires and regrout..

[mattomeo]

haha nice

[inlovewithoutdoors]

The numerous variables that could be present in any installation were not addressed in this only the basic. A really easy way to hide wire for surround sound speakers is IF you have carpeting or a flooring that has a gap between the wall and edge, you can run the wires to the corners of the room at the floor level and then staple them up the corners of the room. Then take a latex based or even better-removable caulking and cover the wires with a smooth layer of caulk. repaint the corners

[jdbs2009]

i wished they showed a video on addressing studs with pre-existing sheetrock.

[rebelalliance08]

That's good if you install a speaker directly over the cover plate, but what about surround sound?

[WindowsAndMacintosh]

Yeah that's what I wanna know. I have a computer on one side of the room, and top of the line bose speakers in the back and I wanna run a surround sound wire to them from the computer without a wire on the ground.

[xyster01]

try going up through the roof instead of keeping it in the walls. That's how I did it. I wouldn't really know if it was a two story house though...

[kayamar]

@WindowsAndMacintosh Easiest way is to pop your baseboards off and run the wire in the space between the dry wall and the floor. Try not to bend any of the nails because then the boards will just pop back on and you can glue them or run some caulking along them to seal it.

[mattomeo]

well im not an electrician or anything, but most of the time you run wires straight up inside the wall, into the roof then over to where your speaker goes. then down the wall to the height of your speaker. to get into the roof you have to drill through the top plate (top of wall frame, normally 4x2). then to get down into the wall where the speaker goes drill another hole in the top plate.

[mattomeo]

oh sorry, when going from the floor to the roof there will probably be at least one noggin (bit of timber running horizontally from stud to stud, a bit less then half way up the wall). this is the worst part, you have to drill a hole through that noggin. so you need a really long drill bit so you can drill a hole down through the top plate then half way down the wall through the noggin. i have seen a drill bit just welded to a lump of steel rod work well. sorry if i made this hard to understand