Hiding Cable Box For Wall Mounted Tv Over Fireplace

How to mount a tv above a fireplace and hide wires for wall mounted tv.

Hiding cable box for wall mounted tv over fireplace.

If you need a more stylish solution you may want to go for this cable management box. We install numerous fireplace mounted tv s. Mount tv to wall mount. It can be a great solution when you want to hide tv wires over a fireplace.

Wall mounted tv cable management at its best. For over a year now it has driven me nuts. Some cable boxes have an ir sensor that will transfer the remote through a wire and back to the eye on the cable box. Oct 31 2017 for over a year now we have had our cable box dvd player and appletv sitting on a shelf to the right of our fireplace.

Full tutorial including wall mount electrical box and hiding wires thank you to lg. The space was too crammed. The fireplace prevents running the cables straight down the wall and the stud framing prevents running the cables laterally inside the wall. You can use the combination of a cable raceway and a standard cardboard box and cut holes in it for the cords.

A flat panel tv above your fireplace is very cool until you try and hide the cables. It requires careful planning precise measurements certain tools that average joe wouldn t. How to hide cables and wires. I space the tv slightly off the wall with a tilt bracket and put the cable box behind the top of the tv.

Depending on how big your cable box is i sometimes install them behind the tv. Hiding cables in the wall over fireplace can be a tough task even for someone who considers himself to be a handy person. We then had a cable company install a cable receptacle on the wall directly to the left of the brick fireplace. When we got a new loveseat the shelf made it impossible for someone to walk behind the loveseat.

Luckily we already had an electrical outlet on a wall directly next to our fireplace on the right lower side of the brick fireplace. For over a year now we have had our cable box dvd player and appletv sitting on a shelf to the right of our fireplace. Concealing wires in the wall over fireplace is far different than in wall vertical wire concealment. For over a year now it has driven me nuts.

There are few ways of hiding cables for a tv wall mounted over fireplace. It was time to move the cable box.