How to hang the bracket on the wall

If a regular flat-panel TV appears in your house or apartment, try not to put it on any furniture (as was customary before), but hang it on the wall. To perform this "operation" you need to learn how to hang the bracket on the wall neatly and quickly.

Height, reliability, safety

If you decide how to hang the bracket on the wall, pay attention to the following points:

1. The reliability of mounting the bracket to the wall - remember that the TV has a rather large weight, so you need to mount the bracket carefully and tightly.
2. The height of the mount - so that later you are not tormented by headaches because of the need to watch TV in an uncomfortable position, try to determine the right height before starting work. You can do this as follows: take the masking tape and glue it on the wall, repeating the outline of the TV in the place where you are going to place it. Sit in front and spend 20-30 minutes watching TV. If at the end of this period of time you do not have a desire to move the "TV" lower or higher, you can proceed to the mounting bracket.
3. The presence of electrical wiring - since the TV is powered by electricity, there must be an outlet near the place of its future installation. In addition, before you begin to fix the bracket, make sure that it will not be in the same place where the electrical wires pass. In addition to electric shock in case of unsuccessful set of circumstances, you still get a lot of additional work in the form of the need to change this part of the electrical wires.
4. Safety of the location of the TV - make sure that the TV will not touch the doors of the furniture (when they are opened), as well as you (and your household), when you pass by.
5. The weight of the TV - for heavier models of TVs, choose more powerful brackets, but not the cheapest.

Tool

Since it is necessary to hang the bracket on the wall qualitatively so that the TV does not collapse under its weight, you need a drill (or a hammer drill if the wall is concrete) and a screwdriver for work.

In addition, you will need a regular vacuum cleaner - with its help you will be able not to dirty the wall with dust when drilling the hole.

Dowel with screws, with which you will mount the bracket to the wall, always included in its package. However, if you find that their length is insufficient, you can use other fasteners.

You will need a simple pencil (or pen) to mark on the wall the location of the mounting holes of the bracket, a small building level and a hammer (with it you will hammer dowels into the drilled holes).

How to mount the bracket

• Determining at what height you will hang the TV, it is necessary to note the location of the mounting elements of the bracket:
• remove the stand from the TV if it came with it;
• open the package of the bracket and find instructions for its assembly and mounting;
• Read the instructions carefully (it is not necessary to do everything at random, if for the first time in your life you fix such a bracket on the wall);
• attach the bracket details to the TV, following the instructions;
• attach to them the rest of the bracket and measure the distance from the top of the TV to the top of the plate that attaches to the wall;
• Put this distance on the wall with a pencil from the top of your “TV” from masking tape (if you determined the height of the TV that was convenient for you in the manner described above).

• Attach the bracket plate to the wall and check its horizontal position with a building level.

• Mark the location of the holes in the plate with a pencil on the wall. After that, the plate can be put aside - in the next few minutes you will not need it.
• Before you start drilling holes in the wall, ask someone to hold the pipe of the vacuum cleaner (do not forget to turn it on) as close as possible to the drilling site.

• Attach the plate to the wall with dowels with self-tapping screws. Make sure that it is horizontal and secure.
• Then attach the second part of the bracket with the support bar to the plate (its position on some models of the bracket can be slightly adjusted horizontally, so if you fixed the plate itself to the wall a little crooked, compensate for this with the horizontal of the support bar).

• Hang the TV on the bracket and fix its position with special bolts located on it.
• Put decorative caps on the bracket, if they are included in its package.
• If there is no cable channel for the TV cable in the bracket, you can fasten it with nylon clamps.

Video

To illustrate this article, you can watch the following video: