Hi All,
Not a big poster on here, but been getting tips and hints over the time i have been a subscriber, and when we purchased our house and got the keys in September 2008, we made the conscious effort to get the house complete (as best we could) before we moved in, which allowed us to rip plaster off, ceilings down etc to get CAT5/COAX runs in etc.
I have posted the lounge pics, along with some of the loft space i used to bring all the cat5/coax back to, and had the Virgin Media terminating in here (phone and broadband) to allow me to distribute this around the house.
Happy to post some pics of the other rooms refurbs if anyone is interested. Each has a TV mounted on the wall with hidden wiring, nothing more fancy than this AV wise, but its a complete change from what we bought!
Anyway, enough waffle, and on with the pics!
Lounge as it was when we bought the house:
The missus wanted to keep the wooden fire surround to keep with the house, so
no TV in that location, so we decided to remove the existing surround, keep that safe, and get rid of the hearth and back tiles.
All the lounge kit was going to be kept in the smaller alcove in some kind of cabinet, so the cable runs for the alcove. On the far left wall the cables are for the TV, this is the wall where there was a doorway leading to the kitchen, but as there is already a doorway leading to the hall, we bricked this up
The idea for the TV wall was to have a double socket behind the TV (easier to wire up then a single ) and 2 CAT5 and 2 COAX. So 2 Back boxes for these, and the center box was to hold a brush faceplate for the exit wires (HDMI, optical etc) As we have a wooden floor, the wiring to the TV goes down, under the floor in some guttering, then back up into the alcove.
Not a big poster on here, but been getting tips and hints over the time i have been a subscriber, and when we purchased our house and got the keys in September 2008, we made the conscious effort to get the house complete (as best we could) before we moved in, which allowed us to rip plaster off, ceilings down etc to get CAT5/COAX runs in etc.
I have posted the lounge pics, along with some of the loft space i used to bring all the cat5/coax back to, and had the Virgin Media terminating in here (phone and broadband) to allow me to distribute this around the house.
Happy to post some pics of the other rooms refurbs if anyone is interested. Each has a TV mounted on the wall with hidden wiring, nothing more fancy than this AV wise, but its a complete change from what we bought!
Anyway, enough waffle, and on with the pics!
Lounge as it was when we bought the house:
The missus wanted to keep the wooden fire surround to keep with the house, so
no TV in that location, so we decided to remove the existing surround, keep that safe, and get rid of the hearth and back tiles.
All the lounge kit was going to be kept in the smaller alcove in some kind of cabinet, so the cable runs for the alcove. On the far left wall the cables are for the TV, this is the wall where there was a doorway leading to the kitchen, but as there is already a doorway leading to the hall, we bricked this up
The idea for the TV wall was to have a double socket behind the TV (easier to wire up then a single ) and 2 CAT5 and 2 COAX. So 2 Back boxes for these, and the center box was to hold a brush faceplate for the exit wires (HDMI, optical etc) As we have a wooden floor, the wiring to the TV goes down, under the floor in some guttering, then back up into the alcove.
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