TV Mounting in Morrisville, NC

The shared wall problem

Most of Morrisville that we work in is townhomes, and in a townhome the biggest wall in the living room is frequently the one you share with your neighbour. That is where people want the television, and it is the one wall that needs thinking about.

It is a fire-rated assembly. Building code requires a rated separation between units. In most modern construction that means two entirely separate stud walls with a gap between them, sometimes with additional layers of board.

That gap is doing two jobs. It slows fire and it stops you hearing next door’s evening. Cutting a hole through it to fish an HDMI cable punches straight through both. It is not a code detail that only matters on paper — it is the reason you cannot hear your neighbour’s television, and the reason they cannot hear yours.

So the bracket goes on: fixings land in framing on your side, which is fine and normal. The cable does not go through: it runs in a slim painted channel down to the console, or, if you want it genuinely invisible, we fur out the face of the wall and build a shallow new cavity for it — which is a small feature wall rather than a mount.

Size and height in a smaller room

Townhome living rooms are often fourteen to sixteen feet wide with a standard ceiling. Two things follow.

Height. The instinct is to centre the screen on the wall. The correct position is centred near eye level from where you actually sit, which is almost always lower. In a smaller room this matters more, because you are closer and the angle is steeper.

Screen size. Occasionally the honest answer is that the screen is too big for the seating distance. We are not going to refuse to mount it, but we will tell you if it is going to be uncomfortable, because that is more useful than agreeing with you.

If you are renting

A large share of Morrisville is tenanted. Before anything is drilled, check what your lease says about wall fixings — some are relaxed about it, some are not.

If mounting is allowed, it is worth agreeing up front that the holes get patched at the end of the tenancy. We can do that when you move: bracket off, holes filled, texture matched, spot primed. Done properly it is invisible and it protects your deposit.

If mounting is not allowed, a floor-standing mount or a stand behind the furniture gives you most of the look without touching the wall.

Blinds, shelves and mirrors

The other half of this work, and in Morrisville townhomes it is usually about standard-sized windows in quantity rather than anything unusual. That makes it quick, and it makes bundling worthwhile: the TV, the blinds, a mirror and a set of shelves in one visit is far better value than four separate trips.

Getting a price

Photograph the wall, tell us the screen size, and say whether the wall is shared with a neighbour — that one detail decides how the cable is handled and what the job costs. Morrisville is about twenty minutes from us.