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I wouldn't worry too much about neatness, chasing walls is a messy business, you'll have to make it good anyway. Angle grinders/wall chasers will fill your house with brick dust from top to bottom. If it's only one run I'd channel with an sds chisel, although it's not ideal if you're going to spur off from the socket in the bedroom punch through behind the socket and do the run inside the room where the new socket will be, keep things vertical. Better still use floorboard voids or run from the ceiling down.
Always stick any cables in oval plastic conduit or metal capping, like you say it's not to protect them, it just saves time if you need to remove or add a cable later.Where are you in London?
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To add a spur socket in the middle of the wall, SDS drills have been mentioned as a cheaper alternative to a wall chaser. But is using an angle grinder to keep the channel neat a waste of time?
You don't even need an SDS drill, a normal hammer drill will do. 'Pepper pot' where you want the socket/channel to be (i.e. drill spaced out holes starting at the corners) then use an electrician's bolster (basically a big chisel - much cheaper than an angle grinder) to cut out.
Here's a back box for a light switch I did the other weekend:
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I'm still considering how best to put my TV on the wall...
To add a spur socket in the middle of the wall, SDS drills have been mentioned as a cheaper alternative to a wall chaser. But is using an angle grinder to keep the channel neat a waste of time?
Also, on the other side of the wall is a bedroom (which shares sockets with the main room). Is it a dick move to run the cables on the bedroom side then punch through to the main room side where I want the socket?
Finally, I also have to route a bunch of A/V cables. Should I do the same as with the power: cut a channel, chuck the cables and then plaster directly over the top? Or should I use conduit for that, incase I (or subsequent people) want to add/remove cables?