Hide Speaker Wire Carpet

If you have a carpeted room it is easy to hide your speaker wires between the carpet and your baseboards.

Hide speaker wire carpet.

This is the fastest easiest way to hide wire. Step 1 lift the carpet. Run ghost wire along wall. Tuck the speaker wire under your baseboards.

There may be enough space for heavy duty cable or you may find it tough to push in even the smallest wire. Special flat speaker wire made from insulated copper ribbons are one solution. For speaker wires you only need to pull up about 1 inch while category 5 wires need about 2 inches. Sewell direct offers ghost wire that s a spool of 16 awg speaker wire about the width and thickness of duct tape.

In rooms with wall to wall carpet you can often force wire between the carpet and the baseboard. Try to minimize the amount of carpet you pull up as much as possible. Not only can a rug offer personality and draw aesthetic attention to itself but it will help prevent tripping hazards. If your speaker wires have to cross an open floor space common with surround sound speakers a readily convenient option would be to hide them under some type of throw rug or carpet runner.

Most speaker wires are too thick for under carpet installation as they will be visible and felt under the rug. Gently tuck the wires into the gap using a flat head screwdriver to push them completely under the baseboard and out of sight. It s also the least certain and the only way to know if it will work is to give it a try. To lift the carpet up use your pliers to grip the carpet edge and gently pull it up from the tack strip.