On Jun 10, 6:51*am, "Gareth" wrote:
"sm_jamieson" *wrote in message

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I'm thinking about some AV / coax / ethernet cabling into the far
corner of my kitchen, where it might
be useful to connect up various things.
Options:
1. worktop cable outlet (useful for some things, like a TV sitting on
the work surface)
2. various wall plates - OK but difficult to future proof. Need at
least 3 x cat6 (can take HMDI also), 2 x coax, some audio cables, etc,
etc.
3. Some type of big modular wall plate that can be customized with
snap-in modules in the future.
4. A tidy cable duct outlet in the wall. Could push cables up behind
plasterboard and out of the wall, to, for example, a drop-down screen.
Cable would have to exit upwards to repect minimum bend radius etc.

Option one sounds to be the easiest and most sensible if you are not sure of
future use at this point: a work surface television should have or could
have Freeview HD built in which, if satellite was not important to you,
would reduce the need for cabling including possibly audio cabling to just a
standard aerial cable.

I've tended to just replace standard size wall plates with new standard size
wall plates when wanting to upgrade an ethernet or aerial socket.

I recently blanked off three ethernet sockets for a friend because they
haven't been used - wireless technology isn't perfect but has come a long
way. The cable wasn't cheap and iirc cost twice as much more than the
wireless router :-o

Never seen a tidy cable duct.


I was imagining something that looked like a small upside-down
ventilation cowl, just under the wall cabinets, so the cables would
exit from this upwards in a fairly tidy manner, and the "hole" in the
wall would be hidden from any likely viewpoint.
Simon.