For over a year now it has driven me nuts.
Tv above fireplace cables.
Begin your project today.
Luckily we already had an electrical outlet on a wall directly next to our fireplace on the right lower side of the brick fireplace.
These niches also have an electrical outlet ethernet cable and cable tv jack.
How to hide cables and wires.
Only mount a tv above a fireplace if temperatures in that spot do not surpass 100 degrees fahrenheit.
Oct 31 2017 for over a year now we have had our cable box dvd player and appletv sitting on a shelf to the right of our fireplace.
If you live in a newer house or townhouse and plan to mount your tv over gas fireplace on the main floor and if your basement is unfinished then wires can be fished from the wall above the fireplace down to the basement and then fish the wires back up to the main floor through a wall and come out where your components.
Houses and apartments are often built with recessed niches intended for tv placement.
We then had a cable company install a cable receptacle on the wall directly to the left of the brick fireplace.
A flat panel tv above your fireplace is very cool until you try and hide the cables.
Please see the photo.
When mounting a tv over a fireplace is acceptable cables and jacks are located there.
If your fireplace is on an interior wall you may be able to go up the wall however that doesn t work on exterior walls.
At the very least you re going to need get the power up there.
Like a tv aerial satellite cable hdmi s for any equipment optical lead for your soundbar and so on.
Hide wires mounted tv above fireplace.
The fireplace prevents running the cables straight down the wall and the stud framing prevents running the cables laterally inside the wall.
You may have luck with a fireplace that produces less heat features a deep mantel and strong.
We are moving to a newly constructed home and the family tv is supposed to go on the wall above the gas fireplace in the family room cable hookup is there already.
Fishing cables in the wall over fireplace through unfinished basement.
Mount tv to wall mount.
When we got a new loveseat the shelf made it impossible for someone to walk behind the loveseat.