Scott you're doing it up right- running all the wires in the walls is the only way to go. I have no cables/wires showing anywhere- everything is thru the walls/ceiling.

 

yeah I just hope the tv hides the retro boxes once it's mounted.

Does that pic show your 2 bys anchored into the concrete?

 

it will.


yeah. not much of a gap (1"), so they are primarily just for filler between the concrete and drywall. I'll be using those 1/2" concrete anchors and just drilling through the "studs"


I also had to rip off all that paint around the hole on the left....some sort of water penetration that never dried and the paint sealed it in and was a big bubble.

 

good job man!

the only other thing is you'll want to get a "nose plate" from Home Depot for the equipment side retro box. And pull the cables through the nose plate before you hook them up to the equipment. I forget to do that about once a month, and get to yank out all the wires and start again. :gay:

 

and you dont like those pink walls?! (yeah it's really pink, looks taupe in the pics, the stripe is like a maroony tera-cotta )

 

dude the house I bought had salmon pink, yellow, hemi orange, dark green, light green, and purple walls. Some rooms got special 2 tone treatments. And grass green carpet.

Let's just say I had to paint the entire house and get new carpet in all carpeted rooms. (the wood and tile floors are OK, though I had to knock out the tile shower in the master bath cuz it looked like ****).

 

my house had ivey green walls... because the ivey was growing inside of it through the old windows

 

it's been in the 60's and 70's now for two weeks and I still have 8"+ of snow in the front yard.
Yesterday I cleaned the garage, tok everything out and swept, hosed, scrubbed with degreaser and hosed again.

picked up a new 450lb gunsafe by myself

and cleaned my office.

 

Hell, no wonder you want that machine gun.

 

you'd think the dirty ******* I bought it from would help load it but NOOOO they wheeled it out on a pallet jack and then all dissapeared.

 

lol, whats a bunch of jackasses

 

sorry camera phone:

 

Is that the Panasonic 50"?

 

yeah.