How To Hide TV Wires | DIY For Beginners

so today in this video i'm going to show

you how to hide your wires for your wall

mount tv and put them actually in the

wall cavity we're going to show you a

couple of tips and trick tech a couple

of tips and tricks for that first of all

you're going to want to go and buy these

low voltage boxes this is basically just

the frame of a box that's compatible

with all the finished plates so we're

gonna have a finished plate that goes on

this top and bottom and these here are

going to be spinning out and making

contact with the drywall so here's how

this works we have our mount we know

where the wood is because we have screws

just double check you want to use a stud

finder

confirm there's nothing behind where you

want to work so i'm going to put a box

up here just above the tv mount most

cases tv mounts are in the middle and

i'm going to just trace out the outside

perimeter of this box

if you look real closely you'll see that

the sides

that are going to go in the drywall it's

a smaller diameter than the actual

outside edge of that little voltage box

so what i'm going to do is i'm going to

use my drywall saw and i'm going to cut

1 8 of an inch in side of that line that

i drew so that i can place this just

going to use a regular hand tool

drywall saw i love how easy this is the

goal here is to leave enough wall

showing that the face of that orange

plate is on top of the drywall and

that's how you get your compression

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boom

one of the reasons you want to use a

hand saw like this is if there is wires

or plumbing or anything else in that

wall you'll feel it with this before you

can cause damage to it if you use a

regular cut out tool lord knows what

you're cutting if there's a live wire

back there and use a cutout tool and you

cut through that wire you're in a lot of

trouble because you can't just patch it

and cover it up you have to find both

ends where they go and then run brand

new wire again might be into a whole

brand new piece of hurt right there now

we're going to do is we're going to do

the same technique we're going to cut a

hole down here behind where your cabinet

or wherever your console is going to be

so you can run your table all right here

we go so

the same place

same thing same thing we're just going

to trace it out and cut it just like the

other one

now we're going to do is just take these

stick them in place

okay let me just demonstrate you how

this works there's two tightening screws

and as soon as you as soon as you start

with the wing flips out and then it just

pulls it nice and close into the drywall

that's how you use a low voltage box

there we go

okay

so we're going to try to fish this cable

to go from the tv

one hole to the next

and sometimes

sometimes you can even get lucky

one heck of my head

you got to be kidding me

oh come on there we go we have a

teachable moment there is fire blocking

in this wall so i have to drill a hole

in that

lucky for me we got the tool for the job

so in case you weren't sure this is

actually the back of a staircase and

it's my studio which is a church of

course so this would be considered a

fire exit which is why there's fire

blocking in the wall so a fire got into

the wall it couldn't burn all the way up

into the next room

so now we got to make a hole

that seems like as good a place as any

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now let's see if we can get the cable

through

now i've got to find that hole

not that i can see a bloody thing in

here right

ah

see we can see where i'm in the hole

there it is yeah that's why i couldn't

find it

that's not a half inch bit

that is too small just for the record um

this is a half inch pit

this is just a little bit bigger than

half an inch

loving it so

we'll try again

i'm going to get my bed extender and a

spade bit i'll make another hole

there we go now that was a much bigger

hole that'll make this easier

okay

there we go

now

if you find that doesn't work you can

always use one of these fish tapes

you can pull this out and stick this

through the hole

where's the whole ammonia bloody thing

here it is

because these generally go straight

they're a little bit more predictable

laughs

there it is

and i've had to

you could just use some electrical tape

and tape the end of your cable onto this

and then you can pull it through all

right that's another way to get that

done if you're running into dribble and

the way that this feeds up is just by

rolling it back into the handle all

right

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this is a handy gizmo to have around

today's shout out goes out to josh wow

this kitchen renovation blows my mind

well done like just great work dude

can't believe it your inspiration to

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mind cheers now let's get back to the

video now we just want to put all the

excess cable in the wall remember the

reason we're using low voltage cable is

anything like coax or hdmi or telephone

wire it still runs with electricity but

it's such a low amount of it that even

if you were to bite it in half it's not

going to electrocute you okay

well

here we go

the last thing you need of course

because you don't want to have an ugly

hole in your wall

this is a really nice cover plate now

this cover plate comes in two parts all

right

disengage the screws here

and

try not to lose it all right now

it's just like any other wall plug

they're all very standard sizes

just screw it to the box

but you run your cable through first

there we go

now this is called the single brush ball

plate and screw that together and now

the cable can move around freely

brilliant gives a great look so you put

one of those top and bottom and you're

done

just a matter of sticking the tv back

and that's it great little project hide

the wires give you a much more modern

look in your house there's nothing more

attacking than having a bunch of wires

dangling from your tv listen if that's

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make sense of your life holy crap let's

try that again well there we go we're

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the hell i can't believe that took me

four tries