A wall mounted television solves one problem and creates another. The screen is off the floor, and the console, the streaming box, the router and the soundbar still have to live somewhere. So do the remotes, and so does the…
Wall mounting has become the default recommendation, and it is not always the right one. A stand and a bracket solve different problems, and the better choice depends on your wall, your tenancy, how much storage the room needs and…
A wall mounted television looks clean for exactly as long as the cables do. Get that part wrong and you have a tidy panel with a bundle of black spaghetti hanging out of the bottom of it, which is the…
When a television comes off a wall, the bracket itself is almost never the part that gave up. Published owner reports of failures point again and again at the same handful of causes, and they sit in the wall, in…
Televisions get mounted too high far more often than too low, and the reason is understandable. People mark a height while standing up, or they center the screen on a chimney breast because that is where the wall looks tidiest,…
Television mounts come in three broad types and the differences are not cosmetic. A fixed bracket, a tilting bracket and a full motion arm sit at different distances from the wall, cost different amounts, ask different things of your fixings,…
The bracket is the part people shop for. The wall is the part that decides whether the installation holds. A mount rated for 132 lb is only rated for 132 lb when it is fixed into something capable of resisting…
Almost every television mount instruction sheet says the same thing in the first few pages: fix into the structural studs. It is easy to skim past, and it is the single instruction that most often separates an installation that lasts…
Most television mounts are sold on two numbers: a screen size range and a maximum weight. Both are printed in every listing, both look simple, and the pair of them is where a surprising number of installations go wrong. Buyers…
A television mount listing will tell you it fits VESA 200×200 or 600×400, then assume you already know what that means. It is the easiest thing to get wrong when buying a mount online, and it is not a brand,…