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Running Speaker Wire Under Carpet
Running Speaker Wire Under Carpet. Be gentle and use the flathead screwdriver to slightly pry it up. Your speakers will sound their best when connected to the amplifier with heavy speaker wire in the shortest length possible.
Lift the liner with a flathead screwdriver and pull up the carpet. The easiest way is simply to tuck the wires in under the baseboard along the walls, there is a small space between smoothedge (the sticks with the nails pointing towards wall) and wall, even better if there are baseboards which will give more gap for tuckage. However, even 18 gauge can eventually make a little bump/line through your padding and carpet if it's in a relatively high traffic area.
Simply Pushing A Wire Under A Carpet, Aiming For The Other Side Of The Room, Generally Won’t Work, As The Wire Will Go Anywhere But The Desired Location.
Try to minimize the amount of carpet you pull up as much as possible. As someone that has laid tile if ur not running a 16 or 18 gauge wire it might not work unless u use a thick layer of thinset and even then u run the risk of breaking tile because of the speaker wire being to big. For speaker wires, you only need to pull up.
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If i do run coaxial or speaker cable under the carpet, i cut a channel in the underpad so that you don't feel the cable underfoot. #4 · jul 22, 2017. To lift the carpet up, use your pliers to grip the carpet edge and gently pull it up from the tack strip.
I Have Spent The Last Few Weekends Working On My Install.
Special flat speaker wire made from insulated copper ribbons are one solution. Some of that time was running wiring under carpet. I've cut holes for all 4 ceiling speakers, now instead of running the cables under the floorboards of room above from these which would mean lifting up all the floorboards in room above can i not drill a hole above the hole for the speaker in the floorboards above then thread cable through and run it along the floorboards to the corner where amp is,.
Need Some Advice Of Whether To Go Ahead And Run Around The Edge Of My Front Door Of There's Something Good I Can Use That Can Hold It Down Right By The Bottom.
March 2014 edited march 2014. Lift the liner with a flathead screwdriver and pull up the carpet. The other rear speaker is just a straight run along the left wall.
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Push one end of the fish tape or undercarpet tape under the carpeting, between the carpet and pad, guiding it in the path intended for the wire. I cut abut 10mm to 15mm of the underlay away where it butted up against the gripper rod so that i had a channel to run the cables in (between gripper and underlay). It is best to put the cable under both the carpet and the padding.
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