UGGH! 2 Story Wall Fish for Speaker Wire...any advice?

[BunLengthHotDog]

Heres my dilemma, my TV and receiver are downstairs in the family room, I need to run both rear surround speaker wires up one wall 2 stories, across the attic and then down the wall to each speaker...I have the wall fish wire, and will be getting the extended drill bit to cross the middle floor stud if I have too...any suggestions before taking this on?

Any alternatives?

Thanks

 

[Viper GTS]

Trained cockroach?

Viper GTS

 

[BunLengthHotDog]

Trained cockroach?

He won't do it, part of a Union, they say he cant go any higher than 1 story...

 

[Kenazo]

wireless?

 

[KenGr]

Unless you have "balloon construction" which is not too common, you will run into a barrier at the floor of the second floor. Why can't you go underneath? Slab construction? I have successfully done this by running through heating ducts to get into the second floor and then fishing from the attic. It sounds like you may have a real problem. Wireless?

 

[TallBill]

There any conduit at all you can tap into to use? even if its remotely lose...

im with kengr.. you might have to go wireless ?

 

[BunLengthHotDog]

Slab construction....already have the parts, so wireless is ABSOLUTE last resort, plus its for DD5.1, not sure how well wireless would work for that

 

[Sluggo]

I vote wireless speakers

 

[Sluggo]

If you are good at drywall patching, you could put a small trench in the drywall for the wire.

If you know which way the floor joists run, you could poke a little hole at the top and bottom of the wall to get the wire up the wall. Drill through the top plate, then poke more small holes in the ceiling to go across the room.

 

[BunLengthHotDog]

are the drill bits that are 10 ft or so that difficult to use? I use to do installs with cable techs along time ago (did PC side), and they seemed to have little trouble getting through the barrier between floors

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: BunLengthHotDog
Slab construction....already have the parts, so wireless is ABSOLUTE last resort, plus its for DD5.1, not sure how well wireless would work for that

By the time the signal reaches the speaker there's no encoding left to it, it's a purely analog signal. Whether it gets their by wire or RF makes no difference.

Viper GTS

 

[Crimzon]

Why can't you run this along the floor board or something?

 

[BunLengthHotDog]

Why can't you run this along the floor board or something?

Fireplace in the way

Living Room

I already had enough trouble getting the RG-6 under that fireplace, dont think additional wires will fit. This also effects whether I can get XBOX Live down from my router on the 2nd floor to the XBOX on the first floor

 

[Kenazo]

Why can't you run this along the floor board or something?

Hmm.. good idea. actually, why don't you pull up your baseboards, chances are the drywall doesn't run smack into the floor. you could probably run the cables there and then put the baseboard back.

 

[Kenazo]

hmm.. you could always pull up about a 1/2" of the rug or so along the wall, then put the cables under the rug, around the fireplace and keep going. Of course insurance does not like it when ppl put cables under their rug, but these are fairly low voltage anyway, shouldn't be a problem

 

[Crimzon]

Ahh ok. At our house, we have hardwood flooring, and persian rugs over them. So ended up just using the rug to cover the wires for the rear speakers (bought flat wires), and there were two places where they were exposed, but they were where no one would walk, behind a chair and a couch so it was alright. Was going to crawl under the house and run wires, but figured it was not worth it at all. For the RJ45... best bet would be to try and find a closet nearby, and see if you can drill a hole in the roof of the closet and run it through there.