How to hang a TV on the wall

The TV is mounted on the wall with a wall bracket. This device can be purchased at the store or made by yourself. To hang a wall-mounted TV yourself, without the help of an invited master, it is not difficult if there is a drill, hammer and screwdriver in the house.

How to install a TV on the wall

The installation process looks simple, the bracket can be fixed on 4 bolts to the surface, then the TV is suspended on it.

Wall mounted television set at a certain height. You can hang it at a standard height (from 0, 7 to 1 m from the floor plane) or choose any convenient point. In homes where there are small children, such devices should hang at a height not accessible to them.

In the kitchen, TVs are suspended higher than in the bedroom or living room. Kitchen televisions are located at a sufficient distance from water and fire.

Ideally, if the television cord will reach the outlet without an extension cord. Excess wires pulled around the room create inconvenience.

Important! You can drill the wall only in those areas where there are no hidden pipes and wiring. During the finishing work, builders hide water pipes and electric wires under the decorative lining.

TV refers to household items in the comfort zone of a person. Therefore, it is installed so that while watching programs, its owner feels as comfortable as possible.

In brightly lit rooms, television equipment is found a place where its screen in the daytime is not exposed to sunlight. In the bedroom and living room, a television receiver is installed (fixed) opposite:

• a sofa;
• beds;
• a set of upholstered furniture.

The distance from the viewer to the screen should be 2 meters or more. Watching shows is convenient when the image is at eye level.

What should be the wall

You can not hang a household appliance on every wall. You can not hang heavy objects on emergency walls that collapse, rot, crumble.

Before undertaking this work, it is necessary to determine the quality of the surface. A wall can be built from:

• brick;
• a tree;
• expanded clay blocks;
• cellular concrete;
• finished frame shields;
• samana;
• ceramic concrete;
• drywall.

The easiest way to install a household appliance on a brick wall. It is drilled quite simply and inside the hole the fastener sits tight enough. It is more difficult to hang equipment on a thick layer of plaster or drywall. Fasteners in masonry do not hold well if the dowel or nail falls between the bricks. Even worse, if the bricks are held together by a solution in which there is more sand than a binder.

Attention! Residents of panel houses will need a hammer drill. Drilling a hole in concrete is more difficult than in brick.

It is believed that TVs should not be hung on a drywall plane. In practice, drywall can withstand weight up to 15 kg. Installation of equipment is carried out using a dowel-butterfly or on a hairpin - a screw. It is most reliable to find the profile guides on which the sheet of drywall is supported by a magnet and fasten the structure to them.

You should not even try to install heavy equipment on a light plywood partition. A heavy object breaks a hole with its weight and collapses down. You can raise the TV to the desired height using the floor stand with adjustable vertical holders. The device is convenient for its mobility, it can be moved at will to any place.

Due to the flowability of the material, adobe walls are not very suitable for mounting heavy objects on their surface. Craftsmen manage to hang household equipment on adobe, acting in stages:

• treating the selected surface area with deep penetration impregnation;
• drill holes;
• fill the holes with a solution of cement;
• drill cemented area;
• screw the dowel with a self-tapping screw.

Such complex work does not always lead to the desired result, a piece of cement may not withstand the load and just fall out of the wall. In such cases, when installation on the walls is not possible, you can purchase a ceiling bracket and fix the television receiver on it.

Mounting the TV on a wall with a bracket

The easiest way is to purchase a special standard bracket. There can be several types of such products in stores, all of them differ in functionality and price. All brackets have mounting points. The distance between them is in accordance with the standard.

Installation of the TV is as follows:

1. Points for drilling holes are applied to the surface of the wall. Height is measured from the floor up. A horizontal line is drawn from the set point to the left and to the right with the help of the level.
2. The lower holes of the bracket mounting are aligned so that the indicated segment passes through them.
3. Through the holes, points are marked with a pencil for drilling holes.
4. With a special tool (a drill, a punch is suitable), holes are drilled at the designated points. The drill is selected a little thinner than the diameter of the fastener.
5. A screwdriver is screwed into the holes with screws.
6. The design will hang more reliably if the dowels are driven into the holes with a hammer, and then screws are screwed into them. The drill must match the size of the dowel.
7. The holes of the attached suspension and bracket combine, tighten the bolts. On the bracket, after the latter is securely mounted on the wall.

Wires stretched throughout the house create inconvenience and give the interior an untidy appearance. At the end of the work, the television electrical cord and antenna wire are hidden in the cable channel.
Correctly assemble the bracket is not difficult. The main thing is to adhere to the instructions.

How to hang a TV on a wall without a bracket

Modern flat-screen televisions with a large diagonal can be hung without using any devices. On the rear panel of the device, manufacturers have provided for this purpose special parts (grooves or ears).

It’s no more difficult to hang the latest TV sets on the walls than mirrors and paintings. In this work, the main thing is to choose the appropriate fasteners.

The installation process is carried out in the following sequence:

1. Down from the selected point, a plumb line measures the distance to the floor.
2. To the obtained indicator is added the length of the segment from the lower edge of the TV to the upper mounting points. For example, the television receiver should hang at a height of 1, 2 m. + 40 cm. From the edge of the TV to the ears on the rear panel, we get 1.6 m.
3. A height point is marked on the wall, a straight line is drawn through it with the help of a level.
4. Measure the distance between the centers of the holes in the grooves (ears) on the rear wall of the panel.
5. To the left and right in a straight line, they are carried at an equal distance from the center point in half the size. If between the grooves is 50 cm, then from the center to the sides lay 25 cm. And put marks.
6. At the marked points, drill holes with a drill or punch.
7. Hammer the dowels into the holes.
8. Screw the screws of a suitable size.

On the hinges (ears) of the rear panel, special holes are drilled, they expand downwards and taper up. Self-tapping screws are threaded through the holes of the loop in their lower part. Then, the unit sits down a bit under its own weight. The TV cannot slide off the fasteners, since the fastener cap is clamped in the narrow part of the loop.

Hanging the TV to a prepared place, and taking measurements is more convenient with someone else's help. It is very difficult to hold a plumb line and simultaneously measure height alone.

To keep the equipment on the wall will help a shelf of drywall or wood. It is screwed so that the bottom edge of the equipment rests on it.

Instead of the bracket, you can use chipboard and a strip of finishing material of suitable length and width. Do it like this:

1. Chipboard is attached to any fragile wall surface (adobe, drywall).
2. the surface of the chipboard is faced with a decorative strip (plastic, wallpaper).
3. on a tiled surface, the bracket and the TV are strengthened.

Large equipment with a large weight can be installed on two boards of chipboard. The decorative panel can additionally carry shelves.

The process of installing the TV on a wall surface consists in marking the mounting points, selecting suitable fasteners, drilling holes. Those who are not confident in their abilities can always use the services of specialists, they can install equipment on any wall, whether it is drywall or foam block.

Maximum TV Weight

The permissible weight of the equipment depends on several factors:

• the material of which the wall is built;
• type of bracket;
• quality fasteners.

For drywall walls, the permissible upper weight limit of suspended equipment is 15 kg. Provided that it will be attached to the surface with butterfly dowels. If the device is hung on bearing rails using long rods - bolts, the load can be increased to 20 kg.

Advice! Manufacturers recommend large TVs weighing over 25 kg to be installed on the wall with an assistant.

All factory brackets have instructions that indicate the maximum allowable loads. The fixed wall products made in the form of a cross support the weight up to 25 kg.

Fixed brackets with a rear panel are capable of supporting up to 35 kg., Provided that the wall on which it is installed is built of ceramic concrete blocks or bricks.