[cardiffdutch]

I want to install an LCD TV on Chimney breast in a spare bedroom upstairs. The fire place is blocked up on this breast. I want to drop the power and coax cable through the breast down to the opening (this fire place is open, but no working fire is present) in the living room. I can then connect a NTL receiver in the spare bedroom. My problem is the flue for downstairs isnt directly behind where the TV is going to be mounted. It is to the left of where the TV will be mounted. Chasing the cables isnt an option as the Chimney breast has very expensive wall paper on it!! How do I go about getting the cables to fall down the flue downstairs??

Thanks in advance, Matt

[George a L]

Bit of string and a weight.

[cardiffdutch]

The problem i have is that if i drill straight into the breast upstairs and drop the cables stright in, it will just fall onto the floor of where the fireplace used to be in the spare room. I have looked up into the breast from downstairs and the flue for downstairs runs to the left of the breast for upstairs.

[GasDad]

How big is the LCD and how wide is the chimney breast?

I would have thought that even if you drill a whole directly into the flue from downstairs, the resultant hole would be covered by the LCD ?

Is this not the case ?

James

[cardiffdutch]

Thats what i hoping to do in the first place. It is a pretty wide breast and unfortunately the TV wont cover it.

I am pretty stumped as to what to do, but I will not be beaten!!!!

[cardiffdutch]

I have had a thought!!!!

What i might do is drill straight behind the screen and drop the cables into the breast. Then I will try to get access to the cables form the side of the breast. I have got a vent on the side of the breast that I am going to try and use as access. Behind the vent is bricks before I can get to the opening of the fire. I could drill through these bricks to get to the opening of the fire but what could i use to grab the cables and pull them through??

Any ideas???