How to hide these wires on the wall?

[Innovate1]

Doing some painting of walls, floor epoxy, and generally sprucing up the place. Would like to hide these wires. The thermostat wires go into the basement of the connected house for control of floor heat. The wall has blown in insulation. I have one of those 4' flexible drill bits for going up through the top plate or down through the floor for fishing small wires for alarms and such (small bit of about 1/4"). Thought this wouldn't be too bad but running into issues. Figured if I could get wires over to the door I could get most of the way and make things easier. Drilled up through the door header and can't push the bit very far in the cavity. There is some electrical wiring going across there. Then trying to drill from the thermostat location into the gap around the door I am hitting metal - nails or some such I think. Started this post to get some ideas from others. One idea is to route a groove in the back of a trim strip and just cover the wires. The thermostat is on a rough scrap of plywood to give room for the wires and was a quick solution. I could make a nicer looking back plate for the thermostat and one for the OHD buttons. Would be easy to move the bottom hole over for a straight drop from the thermostat. The attic access is more difficult so would just put a small block on the ceiling to cover the horizontal (the hole is about an inch from the wall) and then drop straight down. That's probably the easiest and think it can be made to look good. Any other ideas?

 

[Wubicon]

You can get wire race ways that are paint able. That would help hide them. Did it for some speakers in my rec room because my wife hates when you can see wires.

 

[cgrutt]

Easiest thing would be some raceway wiremold channel. If you're trying to avoid sheetrock repairs you may be able to add a low voltage frame directly below thermostat (at floor, standard outlet level) and cover it with a blank plate. This should give you enough space to either get a snake up behind thermostat or drill to where you need it. Coming in from attic is probably best bet for door controllers.

 

[jkuro]

Fish the wall if you have access to the top plate.

Fish the bottom wire also.

 

[Ilikeike]

If you have attic access to that area, just run them in the wall.
or just expose about 1' of them above the door, and tuck them in the door trim when you finish that.
Id do the same with what looks like sprinkler wire.

 

[CraigStu]

I'd hide under the trim and then use the plastic for the rest. Paint the plastic same color as the wall and it really isn't very noticeable.

 

[nadogail]

Wire Mold, or you can build a box and cover them.

 

[BobnCO]

Fish em.

 

[The Cobbler]

good time to practice fishing

 

[Jazz1]

good time to practice fishing

Or cover the wires with a decorative paddle

 

[Innovate1]

I tried fishing the wires and gave up - I was looking for other options. I ended up running the wires through the side of the door frame and routed back grooves in some small pieces of good quality 3/8 plywood to cover the exposed end runs. In the wall would look a bit better but I think it looks pretty good. This is before painting.

 

[Youngandfree]

I would have just cut the drywall and repaired it if fishing was unsuccessful.