Running Speaker Cables For A Steel Frame

urk697 · Apr 30, 2013 3:13 pm

Hi, I am looking to run the speakers cables for my home theater room. The problem is its a corner room, and the house frame is steel (JG King home) so not much space in the roof along the outside walls, I tried to get there and I couldnt reach, also the roof is colorbond. I did run cabling for my friends home, but that was a wood frame and tiled roof. So how can I run the cables ? Can I remove the screws of the colorbond and access the sides like we do with the tiled roofs? any idea's?

paulw11 · May 01, 2013 7:24 am

You can lift the roof sheet to gain access to the wall cavity.
The other option is to cut a small hole in the plasterboard up near the cornice and then either push your wire up in to the roof space on a yellow tongue or drop a weighted string down from the roof space and grab it. You then need to patch and repaint the wall, so the roof sheet is the first thing to try.

urk697 · May 01, 2013 9:55 am

Do you mean remove the screws on the roof top and lift the sheets? should i worry about leaks after i put the screws back? is it easy to lift the sheets? i can see the sheets are big coming from all the way from top.

deeps · Dec 06, 2013 11:41 am

How did you go with this urk?

urk697 · Dec 06, 2013 11:49 am

i went to the roof and run the cables to the corners then open up the sheet to access it. all done, thanks for the kind supports