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TV mounting in Los Angeles, plaster and brick walls too
Old plaster or new drywall, the photo shows us what your wall needs to hold the TV, and the price comes back by text within the hour. Take it from where you'll sit to watch, with the whole wall in it.
Free to quote. Or text the photo to (310) 857-2520.
- A price within the hourBy text, or one question if the photo leaves one open
- Free to quoteThe reply costs nothing, whatever you send
- One-year warrantyText a photo if anything we did acts up
- Done inside the weekMost jobs, on a morning or an afternoon you pick
The texts we get about TVs
- A new TV, still boxed, and a bare wall.
- A TV that has lived on a dresser since you moved in.
- A mount the last owner left behind that nobody trusts.
- Cords hanging down the wall to the outlet.
- The spot over the fireplace.
What your photo tells us
Mostly, it shows us the wall. A lot of LA houses built before the war have plaster over wood lath, and a stud finder reads that wall badly. We find the studs from the lines of nails that hold the lath. In an older house they're rarely where a modern bracket expects them, and sometimes that means a wider plate that reaches two of them.
Brick and block take masonry anchors and a different drill. Over a fireplace the wall is often the chimney itself. In a Downtown or Wilshire high-rise the walls are often steel studs, where a lag bolt has nothing to bite, so the fastener changes. Each of those is a different price, and the photo usually shows which one you have.
How the screen moves matters too. A full-motion arm pulls on the wall much harder than a flat plate holding the same TV.
The number in the text is the number
If what we find at the door isn't what the photo showed, you hear it right there, before any work. Nothing changes without your OK.
How a mount goes
- Send the photo. The whole wall with the outlet in it, and the side of the box that shows the size. Tap the wall and tell us if it sounds hollow or hard.
- We text back the price, or one question. Within the hour, 7am to 7pm.
- Pick a morning or an afternoon. We confirm the visit by text.
- At the door. Shoe covers go on before we step inside, and a cloth goes down under the work. Then we read the price from your text back to you, so we both start from the same number. After that you sit where you'll watch and we mark the height together.
- The plate, then the TV. On old plaster the drill's hammer setting stays off, so the plaster around each hole stays on the wall. The tilt or the arm gets tried both ways.
- We walk you through it. The dust goes in our bag, and so does the old mount if one came down. The invoice lands in the same text thread as your price.
What moves the price of a TV mount
- The wall. Old plaster and brick take longer to work in than drywall, and the price says so.
- The bracket. A flat plate, or a full-motion arm. If you've already bought it, put the model in your message. If we supply it, it sits on its own line.
- The cables. Running them inside the wall takes longer than a cover along it, and in plaster longer again.
- The way in. A third-floor walk-up, or a building that needs the manager's OK before anyone drills.
If the photo shows the TV needs a new outlet behind it, that part is work for an electrician, and the reply says so.
What you get
- The TV at the height you picked sitting down, fixed into the studs or into the anchors your wall takes.
- The bracket and the bolts named on the invoice, in the thread with your price.
- The holes from an old mount patched and filled, if that was in the price.
- A year on our workmanship. If something we did starts acting up, text us a picture of it. We book the trip back from that photo, and that visit is free.
TV mounting, asked by text
Can you price a TV mount from a photo?
Usually, yes. The wall and the size of the TV cover most mounts. If something's hidden, like what's behind the plaster over a fireplace, the reply asks that one thing first.
Can the cables go inside the wall?
On most drywall, yes. On brick and concrete they run in a channel on the surface that takes paint. In plaster it depends on what's inside the wall, and if that changes the price, you hear it at the door before any hole is cut.
What if there's no stud where I want the TV?
Then we tell you before drilling and show you the nearest spot that has one, or a plate wide enough to reach it.
Can you take the old mount down too?
Yes. Put it in the same photo and it's priced with the new one. Its bolt holes get filled, and if there's leftover paint in the garage, we paint them out.
More of what people send us
Point your phone at it. We'll text back a price within the hour.
Free to quote, for anything on this page and most things that aren't.
Text a photo to (310) 857-2520
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