And because behind this wall is a closet, I have decided to make a little cubby hole to hold the cable box, stereo receiver, Blue Ray, etc. You can see here that I have made some progress.
This is a closer look at the hole. It is really the only place that I can put it. But as you can see I have some electrical conduit running right through the space where I intend to put this cubby hole.
This is the back side view looking into the closet. Obviously that middle 2 x 4 will be coming out. But the conduit will still be in the way.
My only thought on rectifying this situation was to cut some slits down the 2 x4 and then slide the conduit down as well. This is shown here in red.
This all seems well and good. I'm still not sure if that will give me enough slack in the conduit. Oh and better news, this is a load barring wall.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
6 comments:
Why don't you fill in up to the cord. Then make the opening bigger DUH!
Ethan Davies
Ethan, Speak in English.
You fill in the hole until the cord on the bottom, so you can't see it. Then you make a box out of wood so your cable box will fit in it. Easy inuf Richard
Ethan Davies
Ethan, I appreciate your effort, but the box of wood needs to fill the void between the two shelves. I need that much room because I have a stereo receiver, cable box, Blue Ray player and video game console. So the hole can not be moved, the cord does. But don't worry your, I fixed the problem.
The solution to the problem. I want to hide all cables behind the wall. This includes electrical cables. So on the back side of the wall (the red wall in the closet), I needed an outlet. The wire that ran through the hole only went to one more outlet. I disconnected it from that outlet and pulled the wire back to the hole, then put an outlet just below the hole. I will get pictures up soon, I know everyone is waiting to see how it turned out.
That was my other idea
Ethan Davies
Rickie - Found this post from a Google search. This is EXACTLY what I'm planning on doing in my living room. I would love to see updated progress pictures as well as the finished product. Great work and look forward to seeing how it all turned out.
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