I think we all know that a ballin home theater system must be on display sans unsightly furniture. The problem is that usually means punching holes in your wall to hide the wires, which your landlord may not like, or not hiding the wires in which case you are no longer ballin. Well until we have wireless power, FlatWire is your solution to smash that catch 22. FlatWire is… flat wire that you mount on the surface of your wall then paint over.
FlatWire cover any type of wire you’d need including high-voltage electrical, low-voltage lighting, Cat5, 5e & 6 data cables, voice/data lines, coaxial cable, speaker wire, component video, HDMI & DVI. They are currently working on Fiber Optic and outdoor products.
These wires are very flexible allowing you to fold them over on themselves to make and degree turns you want. They then connect to your existing outlets or AV hookups via the FlatWire adapters.
The wires range from 4/1000 of an inch to 13/1000 of an inch, about the thickness of a cheap business card. You can install it yourself using their spray on adhesive. After you paint over it they would be "virtually" invisible, but I think you can image if you stuck a business card to your wall and painted over it, if your looking for it you’ll be able to see it. If you want to get really fancy you can use compound or drywall mud and taper the edges so they would be as undetectable as the joints in your walls.
The draw back is these wires are expensive… $37 for 25 ft of speaker cable, $110 for 20 ft of Cat 5 cable, and $130 for 20 ft of component video cable. Depending on your situation, the high cost could still be much less than a professional installation where they are cutting holes in your walls and rewiring your system, plus hard installs are not an option for some people who don’t own their pad.
For more details check out their installation guide.
I have purchased and installed both the 18ga, speaker wire and the low voltage lighting kit from the web site. The audio sound is superior to any round speaker wire. The low voltage lighting kit was easy to install and much cheaper than calling an electrician in to install 2 sconce lights. By the way the wire that needs to be Ul approved, is Ul approved.All you morons and so called electrical experts should do your homework.
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Great product! You CAN paint over it…amazing to see comments where they did not read that piece of information in the first paragraph. IMHO there are many readers here that are lacking somewhat in the braincell area. Keep up the good work!
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You can buy masking tape and do the same thing. Paint over it and voila!
The only thing I can see coming from this is a good under the carpet power application. Even painted, you would still be able to see this on the wall. Most of our walls are flat, and even though this is as well, it’s not as flat as your wall. Also, like LINUXAMP noted above, this would not be applicable for any type of audio/video/data configs. Since it’s not twisted it would pick up signal waves like a mofo. Think your cell phone going through your speakers was annoying? Bet this would be way worse.
They’re great for use on the floor.
Under a rug or even fed under the carpet through a slit under the baseboard.
But they aren’t worth the cost or the new paint job when regular old wires have been working fine for many years.
I’m going to agree with the guy who said make your house a Faraday cage…that would rule. You could put a Tesla coil on your roof and scare your neighbors away…that would be teh 1337.
I think I missed something, but how does the wiring shield against interference. I thought that was what made coaxial coaxial.
What if you forgot where the tape is under the paint and want to put a nail in the wall ?
sorry about the previous comment. I apologize, I have not seen in the photo was about the audio line not the power line
In the post above you say “FlatWire cover any type of wire you’d need including high-voltage electrical,…” but on their web site I see no reference to high voltage solutions.
Does anyone knows if the same procedure can be used for a 110V installation of a ceiling lamp?
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