Good evening all!
I have this job ahead of me, and sadly it's not on a nice clean plasterboard cavity wall, but on a thick-plastered brick wall in a Victorian flat.
Now, I have done some research into this, but quite frankly I would rather have some of you experienced folks point me at the best way to achieve this.
To give you the full picture (did you see what I did there?) the TV will be mounted above a mock fireplace which I have just installed, and which is currently removable, until I have finished everything and have done all the filling etc. Therefore, the vertical distance from the back of the TV to the top of the fireplace is only about 1 foot, or less...below the mantlepiece the cable can exit into the free space behind, and will then be routed to one side, above the skirting, via a drilled hole in the side of the fireplace, a bit of trunking, to the double socket 2 feet away.
The plaster is about 1.5 inches thick. Being honest, would you just raggle it, stick in some trunking, and plaster over?
I know...not best practice, but surely it's obvious there's a cable or two under there? I would label the replastered area. I had to cut the telephone cable when fitting the fireplace, and join it with some new stuff...different colours...put a wee label in the socket for the next guy, and although only 2 wires were in use, I connected 4 for possible future use (Ok, I lied, that was just to help me when I have to do some more work and can't remember what I did!)
Right, buried cables, less than 50mm, but bl**dy obvious...do I protect it?
Any suggestions gratefully received...and brickbats too! The customer is not fussy, but is a VIP!
I have this job ahead of me, and sadly it's not on a nice clean plasterboard cavity wall, but on a thick-plastered brick wall in a Victorian flat.
Now, I have done some research into this, but quite frankly I would rather have some of you experienced folks point me at the best way to achieve this.
To give you the full picture (did you see what I did there?) the TV will be mounted above a mock fireplace which I have just installed, and which is currently removable, until I have finished everything and have done all the filling etc. Therefore, the vertical distance from the back of the TV to the top of the fireplace is only about 1 foot, or less...below the mantlepiece the cable can exit into the free space behind, and will then be routed to one side, above the skirting, via a drilled hole in the side of the fireplace, a bit of trunking, to the double socket 2 feet away.
The plaster is about 1.5 inches thick. Being honest, would you just raggle it, stick in some trunking, and plaster over?
I know...not best practice, but surely it's obvious there's a cable or two under there? I would label the replastered area. I had to cut the telephone cable when fitting the fireplace, and join it with some new stuff...different colours...put a wee label in the socket for the next guy, and although only 2 wires were in use, I connected 4 for possible future use (Ok, I lied, that was just to help me when I have to do some more work and can't remember what I did!)
Right, buried cables, less than 50mm, but bl**dy obvious...do I protect it?
Any suggestions gratefully received...and brickbats too! The customer is not fussy, but is a VIP!
especially if the customer devices they want to change it to a fancy swivelling mount rather than the standard tilt when you've already installed the socket 
