CONCEALING WIRES IN A 3/4" PLYWOOD WALL

[MontanaTeardrops]

I bet someone has done this before, but I thought I would throw this out there in case someone is looking for a way to conceal wires on a 3/4" plywood walls. This method is very easy to do, and costs almost nothing. You can easily conceal speaker wires, light wires and switch wires using this method.

The simplicity of single panel plywood walls makes construction a lot simpler on a Teardrop, but when it comes to concealing the wires, I just didn't like the idea of using ugly wire molds on the interior walls. After some thought, I decided to make the 3/4" plywood wall into a circuit board sort of speak, by routing a shallow groove in the exterior wall and placing my light switch wires in the groove. The aluminum skin will cover them.


Using an end mill router bit, I set the depth of my cut to 3/16". I did some tests of a piece of scrap wood to get the perfect depth for 2 runs of zip cord stacked one on top of the other. 1/4" was plenty of room to stack the two zip cord wires in the groove. I set them with a drop of hot glue every 3 inches to hold them in place until the aluminum skin is on. After I had all the wires in place, I used a oil based sealer to seal it all.

I will update this post with photos after I get the lights and switches installed.

[halfdome, Danny]

Camp Inn puts their wire chases on the outside too.


I conceal my 4 light switch wires in a similar way but on the interior with 1/8" Red Oak plywood covering the wire chases.
If need be I can pull them out of the concealed grooves ( no glue or attachments) to repair or replace.
My main trunk of wires are at the ceiling covered with removable custom molding.
Easy to repair, replace or add more 12 volt circuits. Danny