Hi all.
Last week I decided to take off the old gas flue on the side of our house that was now out of use. When I took it off I noticed there was absolutely no insulation in the cavity whatsoever.
We had the old gas fire removed last year and I ran some wires in the cavity to a wall mounted TV with brush plates at either end. I could see these wires hanging loose when removing the old gas flue. So in other words, there's no trunking protecting the media cables or the power to the spur for the TV.
I also ran 2 x flat ethernet cables and a hybrid HDMI/Fibre cable through the same cavity (at ground level) from the front room to the back room for Sky/Internet duties. I did try to run trunking through here to make it easier to change in the future and protect the cables but I couldn't manage it because of the angle, it was hard enough getting the wires in.
We had a quote for cavity wall insulation last week and I mentioned these wires to the chap and he said it's not a problem as long as they're not power cables and I stupidly forgot that there's a spur for the TV power running in the cavity! Even if the power cable wasn't there, presumably, to protect the power cables and ensure it's possible to actually move or change the cables I'll be best to install some trunking.
I can knock a few bricks out of the external wall (I know exactly where to from bricking up the old gas flue hole). And then install some wide flat trunking such as this, and somehow attaching it to the internal side of the cavity with clips or glue? Would that work?
I'm a bit stumped as to how to protect the cables running between front and back room, does anyone have any ideas?
Last week I decided to take off the old gas flue on the side of our house that was now out of use. When I took it off I noticed there was absolutely no insulation in the cavity whatsoever.
We had the old gas fire removed last year and I ran some wires in the cavity to a wall mounted TV with brush plates at either end. I could see these wires hanging loose when removing the old gas flue. So in other words, there's no trunking protecting the media cables or the power to the spur for the TV.
I also ran 2 x flat ethernet cables and a hybrid HDMI/Fibre cable through the same cavity (at ground level) from the front room to the back room for Sky/Internet duties. I did try to run trunking through here to make it easier to change in the future and protect the cables but I couldn't manage it because of the angle, it was hard enough getting the wires in.
We had a quote for cavity wall insulation last week and I mentioned these wires to the chap and he said it's not a problem as long as they're not power cables and I stupidly forgot that there's a spur for the TV power running in the cavity! Even if the power cable wasn't there, presumably, to protect the power cables and ensure it's possible to actually move or change the cables I'll be best to install some trunking.
I can knock a few bricks out of the external wall (I know exactly where to from bricking up the old gas flue hole). And then install some wide flat trunking such as this, and somehow attaching it to the internal side of the cavity with clips or glue? Would that work?
I'm a bit stumped as to how to protect the cables running between front and back room, does anyone have any ideas?