freeflyer
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I am trying to hide my speaker cable and planned to hide it behind the plaster board. The cable routing is shown in the diagram below. There are two external walls and one internal wall, I was planning to go up and over the door frame behind the plaster board...
The house was built just over a year ago, it is brick and timber frame with Kingspan insulation...
I found the stud positions (using a magnet to find the nails) and marked the spacing which is 600mm. So I drilled a hole either side of the stud...
I asked the developer for details of the external and internal wall construction, but they weren't very helpful. They sent me this drawing and advised that I get a professional to do the work...
The drawing shows two layers of 12.5mm plaster board and a 25mm access void, but I think this is for an internal wall. Because the holes I made in the external wall has two layers of 12.5mm plaster board but only a 9mm void...
Unfortunately I drilled into the Kingspan insulation I removed the media panel (which is on the same wall and can be seen in the picture where the 4 mains sockets are) to see how the wall is constructed. The face of the plaster board to the breather membrane (behind the metal back box) is a depth of 70mm. So for some reason this is different to where I drilled the two holes either side of the stud. And more worryingly, I also found a plastic pipe (highlighted in yellow) behind the media panel metal back box...
I have no idea how the external wall is constructed and as for the internal wall, I don't know if it is the same as the drawing provided by the developer.
The only other option I can think of is to remove the mdf skirting board and rebate it myself, or replace it with rebated skirting board (from skirting4u). But then there is the issue of the architrave around the door which they don't sell rebated.
So it seems either method (hiding behind plaster board or hiding behind rebated skirting board) is going to be difficult.
Can anyone provide any advice or help please ? I've used conduit that you stick onto the skirting board before, but don't like this technique (looks messy and is a nightmare to remove).
It would be nice to obtain the blue prints / architecture drawings for the house, but I don't know if this is possible. Surely these must be available for any future work carried out by external contractors, such as extensions and modifications etc ? I have asked the developer how to obtain them but not had a response.
The only other information I have is this plan (which is opposite handed), but it doesn't tell me anything...
The house was built just over a year ago, it is brick and timber frame with Kingspan insulation...
I found the stud positions (using a magnet to find the nails) and marked the spacing which is 600mm. So I drilled a hole either side of the stud...
I asked the developer for details of the external and internal wall construction, but they weren't very helpful. They sent me this drawing and advised that I get a professional to do the work...
The drawing shows two layers of 12.5mm plaster board and a 25mm access void, but I think this is for an internal wall. Because the holes I made in the external wall has two layers of 12.5mm plaster board but only a 9mm void...
Unfortunately I drilled into the Kingspan insulation I removed the media panel (which is on the same wall and can be seen in the picture where the 4 mains sockets are) to see how the wall is constructed. The face of the plaster board to the breather membrane (behind the metal back box) is a depth of 70mm. So for some reason this is different to where I drilled the two holes either side of the stud. And more worryingly, I also found a plastic pipe (highlighted in yellow) behind the media panel metal back box...
I have no idea how the external wall is constructed and as for the internal wall, I don't know if it is the same as the drawing provided by the developer.
The only other option I can think of is to remove the mdf skirting board and rebate it myself, or replace it with rebated skirting board (from skirting4u). But then there is the issue of the architrave around the door which they don't sell rebated.
So it seems either method (hiding behind plaster board or hiding behind rebated skirting board) is going to be difficult.
Can anyone provide any advice or help please ? I've used conduit that you stick onto the skirting board before, but don't like this technique (looks messy and is a nightmare to remove).
It would be nice to obtain the blue prints / architecture drawings for the house, but I don't know if this is possible. Surely these must be available for any future work carried out by external contractors, such as extensions and modifications etc ? I have asked the developer how to obtain them but not had a response.
The only other information I have is this plan (which is opposite handed), but it doesn't tell me anything...
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