Mike,
There's a lot of sense in what you say, but the average post-war British
house sits on a thick concrete slab and is then constructed from solid
blockwork (generally including dividing walls on the ground floor), although
timber frame had a brief spell of popularity with developers. Crawl space?
What's that?
This is one of the main reasons why British speakers are voiced differently
from US ones, BTW.
There is usually enough border around the edges of a carpet to get thin wire
to disappear (the grip rods are usually inset half an inch or so from the
wall) without disturbing the stretch of the carpet.
Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike" <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "1 Olympus Digest" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 5:46 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Wireless HI-FI connect
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> >
> >I'm going to lift the carpet around the rooms and run the cables in a
> >channel between 2 sets of carpet grippers. .....
> >
> Ian, I don't recommend lifting the carpet unless absolutely necessary.
> Nor do I recommend running current carrying wires near those nasty
> grippers. To be done properly this would entail removing furniture and
> re-stretching the whole carpet and this would endanger those wires. Why
> not just tuck the wire under the base shoe/trim around the wall and run
> under the carpet only at the doorways, under a transition strip if
> possible. Another possibility is to run the wires under the house and
> drill a small hole into the crawl space along the wall where the
> speakers will be placed. Getting the wire into the wall is easy behind
> the base shoe trim and can be fished down through the wall from the
> speaker cut out hole. I would also cut both wires the same length as the
> longest run and coil the excess under the house or somewhere.
>
> mike
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