How to mount a tv on the wall
SECURELY Mount a TV to the Wall in 5 Simple Steps
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here's how you can securely mount any tv
to your wall in just five simple steps
our first step is to get everything
prepared if you haven't already make
sure to unbox all of your equipment so
that's your tv and the tv mount that
you've purchased but if your tv has legs
or feet or a stand of any sort you want
to make sure to take those off now just
for reference the tv mount i'm using
here supports up to 135 pounds this tv
weighs way less than that so we're more
than secure on that and then this is
available on amazon for a little over a
hundred dollars don't do what i did and
go to costco i paid 150 thinking i'd get
a really you know best price on that but
it was actually a lot cheaper on amazon
so i'll put links in the description
below if you want to try this one
step two is determining approximately
where on your wall you want your tv to
go the main thing you have to keep in
mind here is line of sight so if you're
going to be sitting down on a sofa for
example you want to put the tv basically
right at eye level the middle of it but
then maybe shift it up just a little bit
you've got usually about a five degrees
of movement that you can see with your
eyes comfortably without moving your
head up and down so you want to keep
that in mind now here we're in an
exercise room and so we are standing up
pretty much all of the time when we're
watching what's on the tv
so with that in mind we're going to want
to put this pretty high higher than you
might place it in a living room or a
family room or something like that so
based on the size of tv that we've got
here i'm thinking that if we come down
probably anywhere from 9 to 12 inches is
where we'll want the top of the tv to be
able to comfortably see the middle of it
that should work for both my wife and i
and i think that's about where we want
to go and then as far as the horizontal
placement sometimes you want to make
sure you get that right on the center of
the wall or as close as you can and then
other times you want it off center and
so in this case we have a treadmill
right here so we're going to keep this
off to this left side kind of in this
range range or region right here so
that's where i know i want it and we're
ready to move on to step three now i'm
someone who hates math and i don't want
to figure out a bunch of measurements so
there's a kind of easy way around this
what i'm going to do is mount on the tv
bracket itself and then mount the
bracket to the mount and get everything
installed here just temporarily so that
we can see what our exact measurements
are without having to subtract and add
and figure out the offsets and all that
funky stuff so first thing we'll do is
make sure to follow the instructions on
whatever tv mount you have if you have
this exact same one you can kind of
follow along with what i'm doing but
check out the instructions that come
with yours so that you make sure you get
this right you're always going to have
this huge bag of screws and washers and
all kinds of fun stuff in here little
spacers and this is just to make sure
that you get the exact right fit for
your tv
so you will not use 99 of this stuff for
90 of it so i've already selected out
the ones that i need and one of the most
important things you want to see here is
that we don't use the wrong screws to
mount the bracket to the tv you can see
right here that this screw here is not
very long you know it's pretty short but
as i start to thread it in
what happens is
pretty quickly right there it bottoms
out i'm not going to push that any
further because if i do it could be
applying pressure to the screen itself
which could damage it now typically
there'll be a plate back here to protect
that but the last thing you want to do
is put too much pressure on your screen
which could crack or ruin that so you
need a shorter screw so luckily we have
these ones
that are the same thread pitch the same
threads but a lot shorter and you'll
notice that as i thread this one in
it bottoms out that's the one we need to
use
so
now that i have the bracket in place i'm
able to use one simple measurement to
figure out where this bracket needs to
go on the wall to get the tv in the
perfect spot so if i want to use the top
of the tv as a reference point then i
just need to measure from the top to one
of my holes down here where i'm going to
drive a lag bolt through so in that case
17 inches so i can use that or if i want
to go from the bottom i can do that as
well and that's going to be about three
and a half inches step four is to mount
our wall mount portion of the tv mount
to the wall itself and we're gonna drive
those in with some lag bolts and one
thing that's critical here is that we
mount these into the studs behind the
drywall in order to do that we're going
to use a center finding stud finder
there's a lot of stud finders out there
and this one i think will do a great job
for what we need so i've got it on
regular stud scan here and as i move it
across the wall
it's going to show a stud finding there
and there's our center it's got a little
notch in the top here
so i'm going to mark that
and the important thing about this is
it's not just finding the stud itself
but it's helping us locate the exact
center of it here's another
maybe there we go
then we're off the stud okay so now that
we have our studs marked here and here
we just need to verify that those are 16
inches on center and we'll work with our
template and they better be because i
framed this basement myself so hopefully
i did this right there we go 16. we're
exactly where we need to be
so with that i'm now going to use the
template to try to see if these will
line up perfectly with our template if
your wall mount doesn't come with a
template like this you can just use your
tape measure to get your measurements or
you can just put the actual wall mount
right up to it but since we have this
we'll go ahead and use it and i can see
here i've got an opening here and here
so we're perfect so we just need to set
our height at this point and i know from
what we talked about earlier with as far
as how far down we want it we want as
close to the tops of these as possible
so i'm going to bring it right down to
about here
i'm going to mark this area
but before we drill anything or mark it
out we need to make sure we're level now
that we have our two spots marked from
the template we want to make sure we're
level and i'm guessing
i thought these might be pretty close
but they're actually not so i'm looking
here and we need to go quite a bit down
on the left side here
to get it to where it's level right
about there
so i'm going to mark that there here now
just a quick tip anytime you've got an
outlet or something that requires a box
in the wall it's almost always going to
be mounted to a stud in this case i've
actually got two i've got some speaker
wires in here and so these are both
straddling a stud so i know that
basically it's going to be right in the
middle and if you just have one it's
going to be on one side or the other so
that can help you find where the stud is
pretty quickly now we'll take our
template back up here and with that in
place we can mark our bottom holes as
well
and there
so our next step is to choose the right
size drill bit and typically that's
going to be in your instructions for
your tv mount but the gist of it is any
screw lag bolt anything like that to
pre-drill it you want to make sure that
the pre-drilled hole is the same
diameter as the shaft of the screw
without the threads if you do it with
the threads there's nothing for it to
grab onto and if you do it too small
it's going to tend to split that stud
which is again not something that we
want
okay
now we'll do the same on the other three
and then we're ready to mount it
then we'll
take our
first lag bolt
and drive it in
there we go okay so that's on there
fairly tight that's plenty tight for now
i can come back around to these and
tighten them all up individually when
i'm done
now one thing i completely neglected to
do in my haste here was i forgot to put
the washers on the lag bolts so you
should put those on they do come with
the kit and i didn't but fortunately we
have a pretty wide head on these lag
bolts so it's not really going to be an
issue i'm not worried about them
slipping through or anything like that
but for your sake remember to put those
on it does help and now next we're ready
to put our articulating arm on and this
just slides under the top lip
and then slips into place like that
and then i've got four little hex heads
that i'm going to put in here with
washers this time and fasten this in
place now i'm about to test this thing
out but i weigh 200 pounds this is rated
for 135 so we'll see how this goes but
if it does hold me you should totally
check out some of my t-shirts and
hoodies and all that fun stuff links are
in the description below but let's give
this thing a try
here we go
okay it works go click on that link yeah
please quick do it before we mount the
tv itself there's a cool little idea
that they had here where you can stash
the hex key in there
and then it's got these decorative
covers that go over so we'll put one in
one end and we'll do the same thing on
the bottom
so now with everything in place we're
just going to drop
the tapered end into the hook like this
and this thing is ready to go so we just
have one screw left to put in the bottom
and it'll be nice and secure now that
you've completed those five simple steps
and you have your tv beautifully mounted
to the wall there's two bonus steps i
have for you the first one is you
deserve a nice cold drink i'm gonna
enjoy a coca-cola and the second step is
if you've got any wires underneath your
tv i've got a video right here to show
you how you can quickly and easily get
rid of those for good in a way that's
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