Running wire in the ceiling (and other stuff)

[TurnThePage]

I've almost completed my Winter upgrades, but now I need to remove a ceiling mounted speaker to facilitate snaking wire. How do you gain access? Does that cover pop off? Do you twist it? (This is an '04 Fleetwood Pioneer trailer)

On a somewhat related note, what can a person do about those wrinkles/creases that occur at the ceiling panel seams (where they join and are covered by plastic trim)? This last Winter seems to have taken a particularly hard toll on them.

[RoyB]

I used the air conditioner ducts that runs from one end of the trailer to the other. In my case I had ceiling mounted cabinets on both end so it was very easy to make the run. The beauty of the air conditoner runs is you have a removable register every six feet or so so it is real easy to snake the wires from register to register.

I also got to the home entertainment real easy from the inside of a center ceiling mounted cabinet.

Being a ham radio nut you can imagine what all I have running back and forth in the air conditioner ducts.

Everything out of sight.

I had one area bringing in additional OUTSIDE antenna cable down on the floor along the front wall where there was no cabinets to use for hiding cables and I used the WIREMODE wire management items from LOWES to mount along the base board height which contains the wires inside of it.

LOWES has all you need for these kinds of projects...

ALso alot of things like audio and video applications is also available in the WIRELESS MODE where no cables are needed...

Wireless speakers from your inside sound system sound great sitting outside... I think my set came from WALMART. C CRANE company makes a nice wireless transmitter that will tap into any AUDIO signal and transit it over FM radio frequency where you can tune it in from the outside using a standard AM/FM portable stereo radio... Those are pretty neat as well...

Roy Ken

[Golden_HVAC]

I toured the Riverside Fleetwood factory back in 1996, before buying my Bounder. It was a fun tour.

They mentioned there is a strip going down each sidewall to roof mount location, it is removeable, and where I installed new wiring for a rear camera, and other devices.

For my satellite TV system, I drilled a hole into the center of my roof, and ran the wiring in the air duct that runs front to back, for the A/C unit. I also knew that should the wiring hole leak, the water would go into the air duct, and leak out the ductwork, not damage the ceiling (it did while on vacation once). And the duct went into the ceiling above the TV set, so it was fairly easy to make a 1" hole to pull the wires out above the TV set and run them over to the satellite controller. The 1" hole leaks cold air into the space above the TV, a good thing IMHO.

You will probably find that the covers clip onto the speaker metal rim. Once off, there should be 3 or 4 screws that hold the speaker into the wall, and above it should be a cavity where the factory installed the speaker wires during construction.

If you need to fish in a additional wire, you should be able to use a clothes hanger or something to push it through the styrofoam? You can also cut it with a knife that has a long blade. If the blade is 12", and you can get at it from both sides, or can go from a air vent towards the location, then from say the open speaker hole get into the same new hole, you can make a new conduit that is about 2' long, and perhaps use a coat hanger to connect two 9" - 12" long holes together with a 6-9" long solid styrfoam space making the hole open with some coat hangers. Just don't poke through the roofing 3/8" plywood by mistake! LOL.

Fred.