Service · Toronto & the GTA
A mounted TV with a bundle of cables hanging under it looks worse than a TV on a stand. We drop the cables inside the wall, finish both ends with plates, and leave nothing showing — from $99.99 on regular drywall.
Send a photo of the wall and tell us which devices need hiding. Most jobs we can price without coming out.
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What it is
Two honest methods, and which one you get is decided entirely by what the wall is made of — not by what is quickest.
Wires running down a wall or along a floor are the thing people notice first and complain about longest. On a floor they are a trip hazard as well. Concealment is the step that turns a mounted TV into a finished wall, and it is the single most requested add-on we get booked for.
There are exactly two legitimate ways to do it, and anyone offering a third is guessing. Drywall with an open cavity gets in-wall routing. Anything solid — brick, concrete, stone, or drywall packed with insulation and blocking — gets a paintable surface raceway. We work out which one applies before quoting, not on the day.
For drywall with a clear cavity. The cleanest result and the one most homes get.
For masonry and anywhere there is no usable cavity. Paintable, so it vanishes.
The part people get wrong
This is where most DIY jobs and a fair number of cheap installs go wrong.
HDMI, optical, ethernet and speaker cable are all low-voltage. They are allowed inside a wall and there is nothing complicated about routing them properly. Power is a different question with a different answer.
The power cord moulded onto your TV is not rated to sit inside a wall cavity. Running it through the wall is a genuine fire risk, it fails inspection, and it can void your home insurance if it ever matters. We have found it behind a fair few walls we have opened up.
The correct fix is an in-wall-rated power kit: a recessed outlet behind the TV, fed from your existing outlet through cable that is rated for the wall. Your TV plugs into that. Where a kit is not appropriate we bring the power out to the existing outlet and run a raceway. What we do not do is bury a cord and hope.
Yes. HDMI, optical, ethernet and speaker cable are all low-voltage, so they can run inside the wall alongside the TV’s own cables, and in-wall concealment starts at $99.99 on regular drywall. Power is the exception: it needs an in-wall-rated kit or a raceway to your existing outlet, never a buried cord.
Wall types
The wall decides the method. Here is what we find across the GTA and what each one means for your job.
Usually, yes. Most GTA condo partitions are metal studs, and we route the cables through the cavity around the stud web. Concrete walls have no cavity, so they get a paintable surface raceway that disappears once it’s matched to your wall colour. Send a photo and we’ll confirm which you’ve got before quoting.
How it goes
Five steps, usually inside the same visit as the TV mount.
The wall, and the devices you want hidden. That is normally enough for us to price it.
In-wall or raceway, decided by the wall rather than by what is fastest, and priced before we start.
Where the openings go and where every cable has to start and finish, worked out before anything is cut.
Openings cut, cables run through the cavity, plates fitted top and bottom.
In-wall-rated kit or a raceway to the existing outlet. Then everything is reconnected and tested.
Works well with
Concealment is cheaper booked alongside the mount than booked on its own, because it is the same visit and the same wall.
Yes. Booked alongside the TV mount, concealment costs less than booked on its own, because it’s the same visit and the same wall. In-wall routing starts at $99.99 on regular drywall, brick and concrete get a surface raceway quoted on the job, and it usually fits inside the mounting appointment.
Recent work
Every one of these had cables before we started. More in the full gallery.
Questions we get asked
If yours isn’t here, just ask us.
In-wall concealment starts at $99.99 on regular drywall, and that is the figure most jobs land on. What moves it is the wall: brick, concrete and stone have no cavity to drop cables through, so they get a surface raceway instead, and that is quoted on the job. Booking it alongside a TV installation costs less than booking it on its own.
Not the one that came with your TV. A standard TV power cord is not rated to sit inside a wall, and burying one is both a fire risk and a code problem. We do it properly one of two ways: fit an in-wall-rated power kit, which is a recessed outlet behind the TV fed from your existing one, or bring the power out to an existing outlet and run it in a paintable raceway.
Then there is no cavity, so nothing goes inside it. We run a paintable surface raceway instead, which disappears once it is painted to match the wall. It is the honest answer for masonry, and it is what we use on brick, solid concrete, stone and any wall with insulation or blocking in the way.
Two small openings on a standard drywall job, one behind the TV and one behind your media unit, both finished with plates so there is no exposed edge. Nothing else gets cut. On a wall with fire blocking or insulation we sometimes need a third access point, and we tell you that before we start rather than after.
Yes, and it is a common call. If someone else mounted your TV and left the cables running down the wall, we can conceal them without taking the TV down in most cases. Send a photo of how it looks now and we will tell you what is possible.
Free Quote
Send a photo of the wall and tell us which devices need to disappear. In-wall concealment starts at $99.99 on regular drywall and we will confirm your exact price from the photo.
Takes about a minute · One-year workmanship warranty · $2,000,000 liability insurance
