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 ticks and trick a couple of tips and tricks for that .

First of all , you're going to want to go out and buy these low voltage boxes .

This is basically just the frame of a box that's compatible with all the finish plates .

So we're gonna have a finish 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 gonna put a box up here just above the TV mount .

In 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 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 gonna do is I'm gonna use my drywall saw and I'm gonna cut 1/8 of an inch in side of that line that I drew so that I can place this just gonna 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 .

One of the reasons you want to use a handsaw 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 cutout tool , Lord knows what you're cutting .

And if there's a live wire back there and you 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 .

It might be into a whole brand new piece of hurt right there .

Now , what we're gonna do is we're gonna 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 gonna trace it up and cut it just like the other one , all we're gonna do is just take these , stick them in place .

OK .

Let me just demonstrate to you how this works .

There's two tightening screws and when , as soon as you , as soon as you start with the wing flips out and then it just poll , it makes them close into the drywall .

That's how you use a low voltage box .

Here we go .

Ok .

So we're gonna try to fish this cable to go from the TV .

One hold to the next .

And sometimes sometimes you can even get lucky .

What the heck in my head ?

You gotta be kidding me .

Oh , come on , there we go .

We have a teachable moment .

There's 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 at 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 .

Now , let's see if we can get the cable through .

Now I'm gonna find that hole .

Not that I can see a bloody thing in here .

I see what you see where I'm in the hole .

There it is .

Yeah .

That's why I couldn't find it .

That's the 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 gonna get my bit extender and the spa bit .

I'll make another hole .

Yeah .

Here we go .

Now , that was a much bigger hole .

That'll make this easier .

Ok .

Here 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 hall ?

Come on , you bloody thing .

Here it is because these generally go straight .

You're a little bit more predictable .

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 out of trouble and the way that this feeds up is just by rolling it back into the handle .

All right , this is a handy to have around today's show .

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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 co ax or H D M I 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 .

Ok .

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 , you know , screw it to the box , what you run your cable through first .

Here we go .

Now , this is called the single brush wall plate .

You 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 .

It's 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 tagging and having a bunch of wires dangling from your TV .

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Holy crap .

Let's try that again .

Well , there we go .

We're all finished .

Hopefully that was helpful .

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We'll see you in another video again soon .

Cheers .

Till next time .

What the hell .

I can't believe that .

Took me four tries .