OG wrote:
We're planning on replacing the carpet in our main living room with some of
that engineered wood flooring. At present we have the Hi-Fi unit on the
opposite side of the room to the speakers,so we have 'flat profile' speaker
cable running across the room close to one of the end walls. I'm happy to do
this because we could leave a slight gap in the foam underlay to allow for
the depth of the cables, but it seems we won't be able to do the same when
we replace carpet + underlay with the wood flooring. What's the usual
approach?

Take cables etc up the walls and over at ceiling level?
Chase into the floor, and sink cables into trunking there?
Move the speakers onto the other side of the room?

Either (a) or (b); or if you can't be arsed, then (c)! (I take it from
the word "chase" that you have a solid floor, so you can't run cables
under floorboards?

David