Cable Tidying

[neonplanet40]

Hey guys well after spending a fortune on a home cinema setup i now have billions of wires in my room. Computer, fish tank, av-setup etc etc

I need some way to tidy the lot up.

Any Ideas?

Neon

[herulach]

Scissors?

How many is billions? Spiral wrap is fairly effective, although no good at hiding them. If i where you id for get it, youre never going to get cables to look god, its the first law of the universe

[neonplanet40]

lol Ok well not billions but alot. Is there nothing you can get to attach to skirting or anything? Need to hide the cables to my surround speakers and stuff around the room.

[Funkstar]

Cable ties (http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...0WRAPS&doy=8m7) and a pair of snips (http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...=30627&doy=8m7) to take the tails off

[g8ina]

Originally Posted by Funkstar

Cable ties (http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...0WRAPS&doy=8m7) and a pair of snips (http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...=30627&doy=8m7) to take the tails off

Yup Same here even with all my "posh" hifi and AV cables...

[herulach]

you could get proper trunking for it, b&q sell it, but if you need to run a lot (i.e. more than maybe 4) you'll need the big stuff you see in offices, which isnt cheap

[unrealrocks]

Anything going to speakers at the rear of rooms, run the cables under the floors and then use terminal boxes on the walls. Same with projectors, and flat panels half way up the wall (although trunk in the wall rather than under the floor for that, lol), if you don't fancy that then you can trunk ontop of the wall but its only covering it, not hiding it.

Short cable runs which are the correct length don't look messy if they are neatly run, so the short run of wire from the terminal box to the rear speaker won't look bad at all.

Another trick I learnt while working for a permanent PA installer is to buy in bulk white cable, then just spray it in situe to the colour of the skirting or walls after glueing it in place