Cables through wall - HELP

[andyb7]

Hi everyone,

Here is what i am trying to do.

Our new house is almost at the plaster stage, we want to wall mount an LCD tv in the bedroom and have sky.

We have the a telephone box, power socket and a dual sky cable coming out of face plates low down which will be hidden by a cabinet.

The sky box will sit ontop of the cabinet.

We have a fused spur that will be behind the wall mounted tv that will hopefully sit in the top corner of the tx behind it.

Question - we want to run a scart lead and a HDMI cable from the back of the tv to behind the cabinet lower down.
How should we do this in terms of bringing them out of the wall?

I have seen brushed face plates, or should we run some sort of split tubing out the wall, i'm a bit confused.

Please help

thanks

Andy

[Mark@Velocity]

Just simply put an electrical back box in the wall, and put a cover plate over it. If you get a round file, you can file the edge of the cover plate to the correct size so you get a nice snug fit over the cables.

[andyb7]

It would have to be a large hole though wouldn't it to get the scart plug through the cover plate?
Then left with a large hole in the plate.

[rookiestar]

Andy,

Invest in a rca/composite cable it'll provide the same quality sound and picture but it comes in the form of 3 phonos, A yellow phono for picture and a red and white for sound which you could easily fit through a hole in a galv box.

The to connect at either end buy 2 scart blocks which you plug the compostie cable and the audio straight into the back of the block which converts it to a scart connection.

Id personally run 2 of those up to the screen or maybe even just a pair of audio cables just for future proofing your system in case you want to add an amp and speakers.

If i havent explained it very well let me know and ill get pictures!, hope this helps.

[Mark@Velocity]

I tried to reword it but I thought its quicker to draw it, a picture is worth a thousand words and all that
Pair of tin snips or Jigsaw make short work of the backbox, allowing you to get the scart plug into and out of the box.

[Liam @ Prog AV]

3 RCAs yellow, red and white represents composite video and stereo audio. About the worst possible means of sending a video signal. Scart can also carry s-video and RGB so retaining the use of a fully wired scart is important (it also carries the widescreen switching pulse, and the pulse that automatically changes the TV over to scart input).

You can get wall plates that are scart on the front, and a scart on the inside too. But I would just make a plate with a hole in it like Mark has suggested. We use all kinds of weird things to make these... I had a batch of plates that were meant to go around a large switch for things like extractor fans, without the switch in place the size of the hole just happened to be enough to get a scart head through!!