TV Installation Carindale

A renovation is the one moment when a TV can be planned properly instead of worked around. Dead Level does TV installation Carindale wide, and a good share of it lands mid-reno — in the established brick and lowset family homes through the suburb, and in the newer rebuilds ringing Westfield Carindale. If a feature wall is going into your lounge or media room, we would far rather look at it before the trades pack up than after. Nearly every awkward mount we get called out to fix began as a wall finished first and measured second.

Planning a feature wall?

Timber slat, stone-look panels and painted plasterboard features all behave differently once a bracket goes on them. Slats and cladding sit proud of the sheet, so fixings have to reach past the decorative layer into a stud or a backing plate set behind it — and that backing costs almost nothing while the wall is open, but is a genuine headache to retrofit. Stone-look panels chip if you drill them blind, so we mark out and pilot from known stud positions rather than hunting across the face. Height deserves the same thought: on a feature wall the screen is the focal point, so we aim to sit the centre of the picture near seated eye level, not slide it up above a mantel where everyone ends up craning. Power and data are the third piece. A recessed outlet and a conduit run behind the sheet, roughed in before the plasterer arrives, is what actually produces the clean wire-free finish people have in mind.

• Do: tell your builder or carpenter the screen size and mount type before the wall is sheeted.
• Do: rough in a recessed power point and a conduit behind the TV position while the wall is open.
• Do: ask for noggins or a ply backing plate behind slats, cladding and stone-look panels.
• Don't: assume a stud sits where the slats line up — that spacing is decorative, not structural.
• Don't: mount over a working fireplace or heat source without checking the clearances first.
• Don't: leave the install until the joinery, couch and rug are in and the room is hard to work in.

When to book us in your reno

The sweet spot is after painting and before furniture. Give the wall time to be finished and cured so nothing gets marked, then get us in before the lounge, joinery and rug arrive — an empty room means ladders, drop sheets and a straight run at the cabling. If we can also see the space at rough-in stage, even briefly, we can nominate the mount height and where the outlet should land so your electrician only does the job once. The TV wall mounting Carindale renovators most often regret is the one squeezed in on move-in weekend, around boxes and brand-new furniture.

Talk it through before you sheet the wall

Tell us your screen size, how the wall is being built up and roughly when the trades finish, and we will tell you what to prepare and when to slot us in. Brackets supplied, cabling concealed, and every screen left dead level. Have a look at our install packages, or call 0481 011 541 and we will help you plan it.