The problem: my better half has decided it would be nice to listen to the radio or cd in the bathroom whilst she has a shower or soak**. The plan: to install a single, but stereo, speaker in the bathroom ceiling which would be connected to existing stereo system. No controls or high quality required, just a stereo speaker. That's where the problems start.
18c house with solid walls. Bathroom and stereo are both ground floor, separated by 2 single skin brick walls and a hallway, total distance about 5m.Possible solutions: battery powered portable radio/cd. Herself not impressed.
Hardwire from hifi to speaker. Very difficult without going vertically to loft, across loft and then down to bathroom. There is no way of running cables via any route from stereo to bathroom otherwise, the way the hall and stairs are built prohibits this. Cable run from hifi to speaker would be about 25M and would cause problems in bedroom above stereo. It would be possible to wire externally but this would not be easy given the layout of the house etc and is hardly ideal.
Another hifi in bedroom above operated by remote from bathroom. A good possibility but I have tried a couple of hifi's in this way and the remote won't work through the ceiling.
Transmit audio wirelessly to speaker. I have googled this for hours and cannot find a solution. Plenty of ways to transmit from pc to stereo system but I can find anything to do what I want. We don't have ipods or similar, just want a speaker (not Bercow) in the bathroom. Aside from the physical difficulties of laying wiring, the bathroom has just been totally rebuilt and the entire upstairs was recarpetted within the last
6 months. Any access for wiring etc.to the bathroom has to come from the airing cupboard in the bedroom above.Many thanks, Nick.
** before anyone say it, bad planning on my part