Afternoon-

I live in a townhouse, the walls I need to hide wire in either A.) are an external wall that has insulation or B.) a shared wall with a fire barrier. Basically, both are impossible to fish wire through.

My idea (and it may not be original) is to take a razor, cut incisions in the drywall that are just wide enough to fit the speaker wire in it and then add spackling over the wire and paint the walls.

Has anyone done this? Think it will be very noticeable? Any tips or tricks? Suggestions?

FYI- It is a tiled floor, I cannot hide it along baseboards with carpet.

that's going to stand out big-time.

there are flat stickyback wires like this

http://www.taperwire.com/products.htm

or this

http://www.amazon.com/Sewell-S...ductor/dp/B005TK0PN8

which you could put up, run a new coat of paint on the wall, and forget about.

Not a bad idea. I've seen those before. I feel like they would be equally as noticeable... but without the permanence of drywall damage.

i may just have to go with that solution.

With those, would I just cut the original speaker wire and splice it? Obviously, I'm not very technically sound when it comes to wiring.

to get my surround souns wire to the wall opposite the front speakers I removed the grout from the tile abutting a sliding glass door deep enough to bury the wire then re grouted. In another room I needed to hide a tv cable along two walls. I pried away the baseboards and slipped the wire in then caulked the small gap left

I don't know what sort of transition connectors these products have, but I assume there are some, probably on the shark-tooth order. similar flex flat cables generally plug into receptacles from one circuit board to another, so there are lots of smart designs they could reverse-engineer

it's been recommended for years to run low-voltage cables behind the baseboard, in the gap that installers leave in the drywall between the wall and the floor. that's pretty safe.

frankly, I'd cut the wall and run the wire down inside. best way I've found is to cut a thin strip of hardwood (red oak in my case) on the table saw, tape the wire to that, and run it down between the wallboard and the 8 mil vapor barrier. taht's the only thing that hasn't punched holes in the barrier for me. if you aren't tooled to the roof, a good alternative would be a strip of edge banding hardwood, sold in rolls at all the big home centers.

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Along with the Baseboard, Crown molding and
Chair Rail are also great hiding places for speaker wire.