Question re wall conduit
 

Just moved into new house & they've stuffed up the wall conduits in the home theatre. TV is going on the wall so halfway up we've got a 1 X powerpoint, 1 X TV ariel and 1 X conduit from ground to tv height for the PS3 hdmi cable. There's nothing for the foxtel. The PS3 conduit doesn't go to the ceiling. Spoke to the building company & they've admitted their boo boo & are going to get sparky to give me a call, but I'm guessing the only option is the angle grind into the freshly painted plaster? Are there any other options?

Is it a cavity wall? If so no problem, if its an external/boundary wall that too would be cavity so dropping and sourcing through the roof space is fairly straight forward.

If its a single leaf, then you can either surface mount a conduit to make it a feature (i.e. make it larger, paint it offset colour etc - but probably still look tacky) or as you mentioned, they'll chase it up the wall to fit in accordingly. Might be able to run behind the skirting boards around the room to a cavity wall then run it up into the roof space.

Depending on where your wall is ajoining to ie: garage you could always run the conduit down that wall and punch a hole through to the lounge with the appropriate face plate.

I had that done to accomodate some outside speakers I wanted hookedup to my AMP in my lounge.

or forget the terrestrial tv, and use the existing tv socket, convert it to RG6.

I have used these Hood type plates fit on a standard wall box.
basically it's just a hood so no need to terminate to a wall plate.

This could be handy for putting mulitpul cables out of one wall box.if you have moved in and got carpet in, you dont really want to be chasing the wall.

A lot of things are possible have you got a photo of the wall ?

Do you require tv down below tv for anything ? or can you cut it put it into tv and use the rg6 going down to bottom for feed back from below. ?

Foxtel is better on hdmi or component you can get HDMI and Component Over Cat 5 adaptors, if your only option is to run a couple of cat 5 cables up a conduit then convert them to the output you require.

[QUOTE=tuna;476877]or forget the terrestrial tv, and use the existing tv socket, convert it to RG6.[/QUOTE]

You can do that? We don't want ter TV anyway, but how do u convert it to Rg6 & what is RG6??

It's on an outside wall & the outside wall has cladding nailed to the bricks, so I guess it could maybe go up between the cladding & the bricks?

RG6 is the cable type.

pop the socket off the wall, reterminate with an RG6 crimp, and use an RG6 wall socket instead.

then up the top of the wall (roof cavity), cut and joiner to the RG6 comming from the sat dish/cable.

Chasing isnt usually dusty...
as long as the vacuum is working then there shouldnt be dust.
Exception is Stace's bathroom...

Mate if you need help doing this let me know, I have all the tools for RG6 etc.
I can help you work out what you want to achive.

It's just working out where you require the differetn signals and working out your in and outs etc.