TV Mounting, Shelves & Blinds

Anchored to something real

Everything on this page is the same problem in different sizes: how do you attach weight to a wall so it stays there for years, and so nothing shows.

The failure is always the same too. Someone trusts a single stud-finder pass, lands half on the stud, and the fixing holds until the day it does not. We locate framing and confirm it a second way before anything is drilled, then set the fixing into solid material.

TV mounting

Fixed, tilting and full-motion brackets on drywall, brick, stone, tile and over fireplaces. The bracket goes into framing or solid masonry, the TV comes out level, and the cables run inside the wall so nothing hangs down over your paint.

Upgrading to a bigger screen usually means new anchor points in different places. We pull the old bracket, patch and texture the holes it leaves, and set the new one at the height you actually watch from — which is usually lower than where the last person put it.

Where the wall itself is the project — panelling, a fireplace surround, hidden wiring built into new framing — that is a feature wall rather than a mount.

Shelves, mirrors and wall decor

Floating shelves are deceptively unforgiving: the bracket is invisible, so any droop is obvious, and the load sits at the end of a long lever. They get fixed into framing and levelled across the whole run rather than one shelf at a time.

Heavy mirrors, framed art, gallery walls and picture rails all get the same treatment. For a gallery wall we lay the arrangement out on the floor first and mark the wall from that, so you are not making decisions while holding a frame at arm’s length.

Blinds, shades and curtain rods

Blinds show every millimetre of error, because there is a straight line of daylight behind them. Brackets go in level to the head rail rather than to the window frame — older frames are rarely square, and following a crooked frame is how you end up with a blind that closes tight at one end and gapes at the other.

Curtain rods get mounted high and wide where the room allows, into framing or with proper toggles when the studs do not land where the bracket needs to be.

Getting a price

Most of this can be quoted from a photo. Send a picture of the wall with the TV, shelf or window in it, tell us the screen size or the shelf length, and you get a number back without anyone driving out.