How To Install Flat Speaker Cable

If you wanted to do an in-wall surround speaker or mount a surround speaker on the wall with a bracket, you could use the same technique I did to start my run for your ending. One way you could do it:
1. Cut the hole where you want the bracket/surround speaker (probably 4-6′ high or higher).
2. Cut a small hole (maybe a 1/2″ round hole) just above the baseboard directly below the mounting hole.
3. Attach a small nut or washer to a piece of string and drop it down from the mounting hole to the hole by the baseboard.
4. Once you fish your string out the hole, cut a slit in the drywall and push the flat wire through.
5. Attach your string to the flat wire. (I’d poke a hole in the flat wire, run the string through it and tie a knot.) Pull the string and flat wire up behind the drywall to where your bracket will mount. You may be able to attach the flat speaker wire directly to your speaker, or you may need to splice it onto normal wire for the last foot or two.
6. Patch up the 1/2″ hole with some spackle & touch it up with paint.

Another (easier) option is to install a low-voltage junction box in the drywall about 2′ above the baseboard (like the green box I have above) in between your speaker and the slit in the drywall. If you have an electrical outlet on this wall, match the height of your junction box with that. Use this hole in the drywall to make your connection between the flat wire and the normal wire like I did for my first step. Use the same trick with the string and a washer to get the (now normal, not flat) speaker wire up the wall to your speaker/bracket. When you’re done, just put a blank wall plate over the junction box.