What's the prettiest way to mount coax cable to a wall?
Question:I just moved into this house where the cable comes out of the most INCONVENIENT spot in the room. How can I run cable along the floorboards and over a door entry, without looking ugly and tacky?
Any products you can recommend to me?
I have tried self-stick conduit in the past, and it just peeled off the wall as soon as summer arrived.
I don't want to do any inside-the-wall wiring because the house is a rental, and thus I don't have the homeowner's priviledge of making costly errors.
Answers:
Paint the coax cable the same color as the walls.
Then run it along the floor to the nearest corner, using cable fasteners that have a single nail on the side.
Then run your cable up in the corner to the ceiling, make a right turn and then run along the seam where the ceiling and wall meet over to the corner nearest your TV. Then come down that corner, along the floor and finally plug into your TV, cable box or whatever.
Don't use U-shaped staples or other fasteners which can compress the coax cable - it will change the impedance and affect your signal quality.
One word: wallpaper!
and also you can cover it up with a staple gun and fabric
Go to Lowes orHome Depot, the have cable tacks that fit it perfect, make nice neat job. Just ask the guy there which one to use. They look like little horseshoe with a nail already in one side of it..
Some faux flowers on a vine...if you can't hide it...decorate it! lol
I would use the cable tacks and then paint it the same color as the wall.
Does this room have carpet or hard surface flooring? Properly installed baseboard is install 1/2" above the sub-floor. This allows the carpet to be tucked under the base board for a clean fit. There should be plenty of room to push the coax cable under the baseboard.
If the room has a hard surface you will need to take the advise of some of the another responders and tack the coax in place along the baseboard. You might think about going around the room the other direction to avoid the door!
I ran my cable along the baseboards. Luckily there was enough space for me to push it under them. You can just put a plant or something in front of where it comes out of the wall.
um why don't you run it under the house and to the spot where you need it and back through the floor it not hard
Pull back the carpet and stick the cable under it.
as pappy said, go to Lowes/home depot, an get the "tubing" that runs along the wall. I jus did this to a house my brother baught. It is cheap, and doesn't require much, "diy knowledge". Just tell the rep what your doing an they will put you in the right direction. they have plenty of different types of styles to choose from. G/L.
intertwined with silk ivy vines
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