There are honestly few things worse than mounting a tv on a wall just to leave a bundle of cables dangling down to the power socket and to your av equipment.
Mounting things on wall avoiding wores etc.
Hiding tv wires and cables.
Depending on the weight of what you re hanging sometimes simple tape can do the trick.
Move the stud finder over the electrical wires.
All the tv wires go behind the frame and remain hidden but if necessary they re easily accessible.
Now just wind the tape back up and pull the cords right on up through the wall.
Use picture or wire hangers or adhesive strips if the frame is lightweight enough to hang the frame on the wall.
If you have a lot of wall fastening to do in an old house or in walls crowded with pipes and wires consider buying a cordless inspection camera such as the dewalt dct410s1.
Use tape or whatever you can find and attach your cables to the end of the fish tape.
You can also get an.
You can buy all the necessary fixtures at your local hardware store.
On metered finders when they are exactly over the wire the meter will read 120 volts or 220 if you are in the vicinity of stove wires.
It lets you see inside.
Packing double stick and masking tapes as well as sticky putty can all be used to hang lightweight frames wrapping paper wallpaper and fabric to the walls without risking the paint pulling up.
Wall mounted tv cable management at its best.
Shove the end of the fish tape through the top hole in the wall and then pull the end out through your 2nd hole in the wall.