The fireplace mantle is not deep enough to put a cable box on it plus i don t think it would look so nice being front and center like that.
Tv above fireplace cables.
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Houses and apartments are often built with recessed niches intended for tv placement.
Like a tv aerial satellite cable hdmi s for any equipment optical lead for your soundbar and so on.
These niches also have an electrical outlet ethernet cable and cable tv jack.
You may have luck with a fireplace that produces less heat features a deep mantel and strong.
A flat panel tv above your fireplace is very cool until you try and hide the cables.
When mounting a tv over a fireplace is acceptable cables and jacks are located there.
Only mount a tv above a fireplace if temperatures in that spot do not surpass 100 degrees fahrenheit.
If you have a flat screen tv you want to wall mount tv over fireplace hiding wires perhaps you have thought of some type of an elegant in wall power and cable management solution.
Luckily we already had an electrical outlet on a wall directly next to our fireplace on the right lower side of the brick fireplace.
Fishing cables in the wall over fireplace through unfinished basement.
Obviously with the mounted above the fireplace you re going to need some cables up there for the thing to work.
We then had a cable company install a cable receptacle on the wall directly to the left of the brick fireplace.
How to hide cables and wires.
Mount tv to wall mount.
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.
The fireplace prevents running the cables straight down the wall and the stud framing prevents running the cables laterally inside the wall.
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.
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.
Begin your project today.
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.
At the very least you re going to need get the power up there.