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robot_parade · 11-26-2007, 10:33 PM

So, the wife got a 'deal' on a speaker system/receive for Black Friday. Now it's my job to get the darn things set up. I've already figured out placement, and got mountings for 4 of the speakers (it's a 7.1 system, center speaker is in the TV stand, sub is on the floor next to the tv), I'm waiting on mounting brackets for the back pair. I need to hide the wires behind the walls for the six speakers I'm hanging on the walls. I've got crawlspace access below the entire room, and I've used one of those 'stud finders' to make myself reasonably sure I can run wire from the speakers down from the speaker to the floor inside the wall (ie, there don't seem to be any 'crossbeams' blocking the way. I've bought a 'fish tape' thing from home depot to pull the wire with. I've bought and measured the speaker wire (16 gauge). Any hints for getting the wire pulled? I'm not entirely clear on how to get this done. Most info I've seen says to pull the wire starting from the top and working down. I can definitely get the wire between the 2x4's, and the fish tape should help, but I'm a little fuzzy about how to get the wire into the crawlspace - do I:

o Insert fish tape with attached wire into a hole drilled from the speaker's location, and drill a really big hole from below so I can snag the fish tape from in the crawlspace?

Or it seems like it might be easier to run the fish tape *up* the wall from within the crawlspace and snag it with a hook of some kind.

Most of the instructons I've found on the internets seem to say that option #1 is the way to go, but I'm a little unclear on how this is supposed to work.

11-26-2007, 10:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
robot_parade Junkie Location: San Antonio, TX	Running speaker wire through the walls So, the wife got a 'deal' on a speaker system/receive for Black Friday. Now it's my job to get the darn things set up. I've already figured out placement, and got mountings for 4 of the speakers (it's a 7.1 system, center speaker is in the TV stand, sub is on the floor next to the tv), I'm waiting on mounting brackets for the back pair. I need to hide the wires behind the walls for the six speakers I'm hanging on the walls. I've got crawlspace access below the entire room, and I've used one of those 'stud finders' to make myself reasonably sure I can run wire from the speakers down from the speaker to the floor inside the wall (ie, there don't seem to be any 'crossbeams' blocking the way. I've bought a 'fish tape' thing from home depot to pull the wire with. I've bought and measured the speaker wire (16 gauge). Any hints for getting the wire pulled? I'm not entirely clear on how to get this done. Most info I've seen says to pull the wire starting from the top and working down. I can definitely get the wire between the 2x4's, and the fish tape should help, but I'm a little fuzzy about how to get the wire into the crawlspace - do I: o Insert fish tape with attached wire into a hole drilled from the speaker's location, and drill a really big hole from below so I can snag the fish tape from in the crawlspace? Or it seems like it might be easier to run the fish tape up the wall from within the crawlspace and snag it with a hook of some kind. Most of the instructons I've found on the internets seem to say that option #1 is the way to go, but I'm a little unclear on how this is supposed to work.