Trunking & Picture Rail Advice

Tesla · 12 May 2006 at 15:40

Today I rewired my network.

This consisted of running some cat 5 around the house via the attic.

I have all but finished, just need to get some trunking to run the cable in.

The problem I have is that I need to run one piece of trunking vertically down the wall. Around 10ft in total.

The picture rail is about 2 ft down the wall from the ceiling.

How can I go "over" the picture rail but still maintain a tidy job.

Hacking bits out of the picture rail is not an option,

Mat · 12 May 2006 at 15:41

Stop the trunking above and below the rail and paint the cable the same colour as the rail?

Tesla · 12 May 2006 at 15:43

Mat said:
Stop the trunking above and below the rail and paint the cable the same colour as the rail?

That would still look a bit crap I think.

I thought about having two seperate rear parts but one long front part and bending the front over the picture rail

Nismo · 12 May 2006 at 15:43

Is the picture rail thick enough to notch out so you can put the cable under it?

LeftfieldTilt · 12 May 2006 at 15:45

Go wireless?

or use some small trunking like 16 x 16 and drill a hole through the picture rail a la Nismo suggestion

-westy- · 12 May 2006 at 15:46

how thick is the picture rail? maybe you could cut a notch out of the trunking to fit over it?

Mat · 12 May 2006 at 15:48

Is it possible to detach the rail from the wall, cut a small channel in the wall and stick the rail back over it? sort of tunnelling under it in the wall??

Adam_151 · 12 May 2006 at 16:12

Drill down behind the rail from above and up behind the rail from below, keeping both holes as near to the vertical as possible, make the hole a bit bigger than the cable you want to feed through it and you will have a 'dog-leg' shaped hole behind it, that you can feed the cable through... apply trunking above and below the rail, and cut a slot out the back of it to accomodate the wire going behind the rail