Home Cinema

[wilksj01]

Hello,

I will be moving into my new house in a few weeks and I plan to mount my 46" LCD to the wall in the living room. The tv will be hung via a bracket to the chimney breast (although the actual chimney breast is hollow as the loft has been converted).

I plan to have a small cabinet in the alcove to the left of the chimney breast which will house all the AV equipment such as SKY HD, Blu Ray etc and so I wanted to run the cables from the back of the TV into the wall and then out from the side of the chimney breast to a faceplate (containing scart, 2 x HDMI, Coax, VGA, RGB, component).

Has anyone had any experience of doing anything like this? I have mounted the TV before so that isn't a problem, it's the routing of the cables and the faceplate bit that is all new.

Any help, tips, advice would be appreciated.

[neonplanet40]

Sounds like a good plan mate.

You should maybe post this in the audio - visual forum? That way people who are more aquainted with this kind of work may be able to help

I am looking to do something similar myself so will be keeping an eye on your thread I was myself just going to chip a line along my wall to my av kit. Insert a cable management tube and then plaster over it again

Good luck

[Funkstar]

I have a similar setup at home.

I have a 42" Plasma (40KG) mounted above my fireplace. HTPC and AV reciever are off to one side in a recess.

I was able to hide most of the cables by routing them behind the fire surround. The only portion of them you see if the ~1ft section between the recess and the surround.

As for the screen, I mounted an 18mm thick plywood board to the wall to make sure it had a secure fixing, then attached the large plasma mount to that.

Already got some photos of the mount online so I'll dig them out. don't ahve anything of the general layout of the cables yet though.

EDIT: Changed a lot since these were taken at the end of 2005.

CDs and DVDs no longer there


You can see the bracket and the wood plate. I don't think the bracket is available any more. It was a custom made job by RS100 - BEST PRICES for TV, LCD, FLAT SCREEN, TFT, PLASMA WALL BRACKETS and MOUNTS - - -(flat, swivel or tilt)


You can see the cables etc in this one. Fire surround is now different and it is all hidden.


I'll see about taking for mor tonight if you like.

[neonplanet40]

Brackets R Us » Universal Fitting Black (A09BLK) Heavy Duty Full Cantilever TV Bracket, Pushes In + Out, Swivel Left + Right, Up + Down Tilt, All 24" to 48" Screens (also available in Silver)

thats the bracket im getting for my 40 inch sony. Have read good reviews about it and its suited for stud walls too.

M-Form - 32" to 50" Tilting Universal LCD/Plasma Bracket

Or that for a plain sit on the wall type.

[wilksj01]

Thanks for the help, especially funkstar for the pictures. I've already got the bracket as I had it mounted at the house I am moving from but I just used trunking for the cables as it was in an apartment.

How difficult is it to cut a hole in the wall, drop the cables through then pull them through another hole and connect them to a face plate as I figure if I do it properly I'll have no plastering to do as the hole behind the TV will be covered by the tv and the one where the cables come out will have a faceplate over it?

[greenalien]

Try a search for 'faceplate' at CPC | CPC - Over 100, 000 products from one of the worlds leading distributors of electronic and related products. - they've also got more cables than you could ever want.

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

Home Cinema DIY - AVForums

Have a look at AVForums on above link. You'll get loads of ideas there and what your planning to do has already been done so wont be hard to get help from others aswell

[Marcos]

Home Cinema DIY - AVForums

Have a look at AVForums on above link. You'll get loads of ideas there and what your planning to do has already been done so wont be hard to get help from others aswell

i was just about to post that, some of the setups there are great, good inspiration