TV Mounting in Cary, NC

Two kinds of Cary house

The request is always the same and the job depends entirely on when your house was built.

The established neighbourhoods

Preston, Lochmere, MacGregor Downs, Regency and the surrounding developments were built when a substantial brick or stone fireplace was the centrepiece of the family room. Two things follow.

Masonry anchoring. Fixings go into the brick or stone itself, not into the mortar joints — mortar is the weak part of the assembly and an anchor set in it will loosen under a heavy full-motion mount over time. It is slower to drill and it is the difference between a mount that lasts and one that does not.

No hidden cable route. You cannot fish a wire behind solid masonry. The three honest options are a slim painted channel, a recessed box set into the brick below the mantel with the run dropping to it, or building the whole face out as a framed feature wall with everything inside the new cavity. We will tell you what each involves rather than promising invisible cables on a wall that cannot have them.

Height. These rooms are frequently two storeys, and tall rooms make people mount high. Viewing height is set from the sofa, not from the wall. Where the fireplace forces the screen up, a tilting mount or a pull-down bracket is part of the answer rather than an upsell.

The newer neighbourhoods

Cary construction from the 2000s onward often came with structured wiring: coax and network runs back to a panel in a closet or the garage, and frequently a blank plate already sitting behind the obvious TV position.

Where that exists, this is a much cleaner job. There is usually a route to pull new cable through, which means no cutting, no patching and no repainting. It is worth checking your closet and mentioning it when you get in touch — plenty of people do not know it is there.

Shelves, mirrors and blinds

The other half of this service, and in Cary it skews toward the tall windows and transoms that came with the same generation of building.

Blinds get bracketed level to the head rail rather than to the frame, because frames are rarely square. Where a window has a transom above it or an unusual height, an inside versus outside mount decision changes the width you need to order — worth settling before you buy rather than after.

Floating shelves, heavy mirrors and gallery walls all go into framing. For a gallery wall the arrangement gets laid out on the floor and transferred to the wall, so you are not making composition decisions while holding a frame at arm’s length.

Getting there

Cary is about fifteen minutes from our base in Apex, which makes it one of the easier towns on the list to schedule. There is no travel charge, and the hundred-dollar minimum means a list of several items is far better value than a single mount on its own.

Getting a price

Send a photo of the wall, the screen size, and — this is the important one in Cary — tell us whether the wall is drywall, brick or stone. That single detail decides the hardware, the cable route and the price.