Installing a wall mounted TV with hidden cables

One of the very first jobs I did in the house was sticking the bedroom TV to the wall. I mounted the same TV to the wall using the same bracket I used in the old house, the only difference was that I needed different fixings. I used two types of plasterboard fixings as a form of redundancy , and also managed to find one of the wooden studs so fired in a 2.5 inch no. 8 wood screw as well.

The stud wall made it much easier to retrofit the hidden cabling that I really wanted. I was lucky in that directly below where the TV is now mounted, there is a double socket and an aerial point. I also have a PVR/Bluray player so needed to have a HDMI cable between the TV and this.

I set to and removed the aerial faceplate and back box, and fished up and found the noggin in the stud wall, verified by shoving the phone in on video mode with the flash on. I decided to cut out a new double box above the existing double socket, as the existing single one was tight up against a stud, and also the existing hole in the noggin was central so it'd all line up better.

I then cut 3 holes in the wall, using my Makita multi tool which made it easy and neat. The first hole was a double box above the double socket, then cut out a square to expose the noggin, and then cut out a single box behind the TV position. Once these were done, I slotted out the existing hole in the noggin with the multi tool as there will be a lot more cables running through now.

With the hard work done, all that was left was to clip in the plastic dry line boxes, pull in the cables (1x power, 1x hdmi, 1x aerial coax), screw in the modular faceplates, and terminate the existing aerial cable in its new module. I pushed a Cat5 module in the spare way in the bottom box, as I will run a load of ethernet cables in at some point, and I had one laying around.

Parts used were as follows (from Screwfix as they were local)

1x 1 gang dryline box
1x 2 gang dryline box
1x 1 gang 2 module faceplate
1x 2 gang 4 module faceplate
2x flex module
1x aerial module

Here's some pictures of the finished result. The hole in the middle still needs patching and plastering, but I am having a plasterer in for some other work anyway. If it wasn't for this, it would just be a case of screwing a piece of plasterboard into place, taping, skim with easi fill and sanding down until a smooth finish is achieved.