Wednesday, December 7, 2011

How to Install a TV Wall Mount

How to Install a TV Wall Mount.

1: First you will need to purchase a tv wall mount. A quick search on any engine will give you thousands of results. A good place to find high quality low costs tv mounts is http://www.tvmountswholesale.com a quality tilting tv mount is about $25.00 with free shipping.

2: You will need a tape measurer, pencil, drill, piece of paper, small nail 1 1/2"+ long, hammer.

3: Measure your television from left to right and up and down - write down these measurements.

4: Find a place on the wall that you would like to mount the tv, make a small pencil mark on the wall where you would like the center of the tv to be. check to make sure you tv has clearance from other wall or the ceiling. " Use measurements you took".

5: Hold the tv mount to the wall centering the pencil mark in the middle of the tv mount and using the level built in to the tv mount"keep mount level". Draw a pencil line around the tv mount, take the mount down.

6: Now you will need that nail and hammer. Within the border of the pencil line, hammer the nail every 1" untill you find the solid spots, Mark each spot that is solid with the pencil.
Note: Most walls are covered with sheetrock over wood studs,spaced each 16 inches, the wood studs are what you are finding.

7: Now that the wood studs are found. Hold the tv mount back up to the wall on the pencil lines. There will be mounting holes on the tv mount. Take the screws provided with the tv mount and drill them into the wood studs where you marked. " Make sure you keep the mount on the level lines.

Thanks it, your done.