Flat Screen TV Wall mounting www.andysaerials.com              

Our 1^st call Thursday morning was for a flat screen TV wall mounting, we had previously looked at the job the week before, and I gave myself a few days to think about the installation, as there was central heating radiator pipes in the wall along with electricity, and I wanted to allocate the job a generous time frame so we could carefully get the TV wall bracket up and hung, checking every fixing for pipes and cables.  It is far better to spend time carefully getting a hole for a fixing than it is just drilling and hoping.  As the TV was a 32” we only needed to use a small flat screen TV wall mounting bracket, and we decided 8 fixings would be perfect, taking into account the central heating radiator below.  I carefully started to make the holes for the fixing and out of the 8 there was only 1, I was not happy with and did not proceed, we re-marked the wall using the TV wall mounting bracket and selected another fixing location for the 8^th fixing.

Flat Screen TV Wall mounting www.andysaerials.com

Once we had our TV wall bracket firmly fixed to our customer’s wall we need to run a cable from our customer’s Sky+ HD box to our new point, which was fairly easy as we disconnected the twin satellite feed cable form the Sky box and pushed the cable back out.  We then drilled the 10mm hole with a 14mm drill bit making the existing satellite cable entry point 4mm larger to accommodate our uplink feed cable to our new TV.  We ran our cable alongside the satellite dish feed cable, keeping the appearance of the cable neat and tidy, effectively one cable visible.  Once we had our new cable into our customer’s loft all we had to do was to run it down the inside of our customer’s internal wall.

Flat Screen TV Wall mounting www.andysaerials.com

We have some extremely good tools and bits of kit on our van for most occasions, so we were able to get a small hole behind our customer’s TV and with a lot of patience we managed to thread our cable through our customer’s wall and connect to the TV without being seen.  We attached a Sky-eye to our cable and connected it to TV; we tuned the TV and were delighted with the pictures.  After checking the Sky-eye worked and changed a few channels we were delighted with our effort along with our customer!   We cleared up, hovered and packed away, the job had taken twice as long as I estimated and put us behind with our day but we were over the moon with our work and it looked perfect; a floating TV on the wall, no wires perfection!