Hiding speaker wires

[Pumauk]

Trying to think of a better way to hide my speaker wires- got plasterboard walls so can i not route them behind this? i.e. drill hole at top of wall hole at bottom and thread the cable through? or is this tricky to do?

Cheers

 

[cybrey]

Plasterboard walls can mean quite a few things. You could have studwork or 'dot and dab'. Studwork would be relatively easy to feed a cable inside, but you will hit 'noggins' which are horizontal pieces, you may be able to drill through these with a hole above. 'Dot and dab' is plasterboard stuck onto breeze blocks with dabs of plaster, this will be next to impossible to guide behind.

 

[MarkP80]

Dot and dab is certainly entertaining to get a cable behind - have a look at "Mark's Bar" thread to see my walls after doing this. You do end up with a fair bit of wall removed, but it's relatively easy to fill afterwards. I used a fibreglass rod to thread the cable where there was a big enough gap, then drilled holes where it got stuck. Using 1/2" drill, I was able to travel up, making a channel, as the plasterboard is soft (OK, not what you do with a rill, but it works on soft plasterboard).

As cybrey says, if a stud wall, then you just need to chase out where the noggins are, and notch the noggin for the cable, then fill.

MarkP