AV wall plate ideas

Garyj881 · 10 Jul 2018 at 13:41

My tv is wall mounted and has the cables running down the wall.

Whilst renovating the room i decided to hide all the cables in the wall. The wall is a chimney breast for which I have already run some electric cables and 2-gang socket from a fused spur.

I am struggling for ideas with which AV wallplate to go for and how it will be done baring in mind it's brick.

I want a socket behind the tv, then run cables down the wall into the socket to the left of the chimney breast.

Has anyone had experience with this and can offer advise?

hornetstinger · 10 Jul 2018 at 13:52

If I were to have one I'd have a channel and use a letter box slot type hole so I can change cables whenever, from hdmi to new hdmi spec as they come along.

For speaker cable then yeah use regular available face plates with banana.plug holes
But for front wall and from source to display(s) I'd want to be able to change without breaking into the wall. Or maybe external trunking.

lucid · 10 Jul 2018 at 17:16

AV wall plates behind TVs; they look neat before you hang the telly, but make the TV stick out too far. This is because even the shortest depth HDMI plugs need a good 4-5cm depth to accommodate the plug body and cable tail.

The temptation will be to use either a 90 degree adapter or squash the plug against the back of the TV. Either method is a potential trouble spot. All this is after you've had similar hassles fitting the HDMI plug in to the back of the wall plate. Is it worth it?

Bury some rectangular mini trunking in the wall. 25 x 40mm profile will do. Finish off at the top with a metal back box/dry lining box and a brush plate. This will save you a load of depth, and allow you to hide excess cable easily. It will cut down on the number of joints, which makes the system more reliable thanks to fewer potential failure points. You'll also be able to run TV coax and additional HDMI if needed. Finally, as Hornetstinger said, when cable specs need to change you'll be in a great position.

Garyj881 · 19 Jul 2018 at 21:04

Hi guys,

I took your advice, I chanelled the wall out and run some 50 x 25 trunking with letter box face plates.

The room has been plastered today, waiting for the plaster to set and can hang my tv with no cables on show

Thanks

hornetstinger · 19 Jul 2018 at 21:54

Need to sort something out but really don't fancy any destructive work.

Scene racking on the right side, TV, front three and sub along front wall, so l,c,r speaker cable along side in front of fireplace marble floors then along back wall. Side right near racking so easy install. Rear right about a foot in from side wall. Rear left on left wall about two feet from.left wall so cable going behind sofa across room.floor. side left also cable going under sofa across walkway.

So need to figure what to do maybe use those office anti trip v shaped rubber things? For side left I get cable around the room need new long run but unless I use wall mounted speakers cable will be going across floor