TV Mounting Across Mississauga
Mississauga runs from the condo towers at Square One to large detached houses in the north, with a great many basement rec rooms in between. We mount televisions in all of them.
Where the van goes in Mississauga
Mississauga, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
- Port Credit
- Streetsville
- Erin Mills
- Meadowvale
- Cooksville
- Clarkson
- Malton
- Churchill Meadows
Not on the list? We still come. See every area, or call and ask.
Working here
Book a window, not a vague day
Clarkson to Malton is a real drive, and jobs here are spread further apart than they are downtown. We book a time window and call ahead rather than leaving you waiting on a morning.
Basement walls are rarely what they look like
Panelling or drywall is fixed to furring strips, and the strips are fixed to a concrete block foundation wall with dead air between. The fixing has to reach the block to mean anything.
One city, several kinds of wall
The Square One towers are poured concrete and steel stud, the same as downtown Toronto, with the same anchors and the same lift bookings. Head north to Churchill Meadows or Meadowvale and you are into timber framing, drywall, studs usually at sixteen inch centres. A stud finder gets you close and a fine bit confirms it. A mount that catches one stud and one drywall anchor is a mount that will come off the wall with the television still attached, so we find two.
Streetsville and Cooksville have older and more varied houses, including some with real plaster and plenty with additions framed to a different standard from the original building. We check rather than assume. There is usually something in the wall you would rather not drill through as well, a cold air return, a water line, or the cable somebody ran in 1994, and the stud bay directly behind a television is a popular route for all three.
The 1970s and 1980s basement
There is a large stock of houses here from the seventies and eighties, and downstairs in the rec room is where the television usually goes. Those walls are almost never solid the way they appear. Panelling or drywall sits on furring strips, the strips are fixed to a concrete block foundation wall, and there is often an inch of dead air and some insulation between the two. The strips alone will not hold a screen. The fixing has to reach the block, which means a masonry bit and sleeve anchors long enough to clear the strapping and still bite hard into the block.
Drop ceilings make the cable side easier. Where there is a suspended tile ceiling, low voltage cable can run above it and drop down the cavity out of sight. Many of these rec rooms also have a dropped bulkhead where the ductwork runs, and that is often the tidiest route for a cable to travel sideways before it comes down behind the screen. Mains power is a different matter. Loose cable in a wall cavity is not how power gets done, so if the set needs an outlet behind it, that is a proper outlet fitted properly.
Brackets, tools and cable management come with us. The quote is agreed before any drilling starts.
While we are in Mississauga
Rarely just the one screen.
Asked in Mississauga
Can you hide the wires in a basement rec room?
Usually yes. Low voltage cable can run in the cavity or above a drop ceiling. Mains power needs a proper outlet behind the set, not loose cable fished through a hole.
Do you cover all of Mississauga?
Yes, Port Credit up to Malton and everything between. Because the drives are longer here we book a window rather than a vague day.
My basement wall is panelling over concrete block. Is that a problem?
No, it changes the fixing rather than the job. The anchors have to pass the furring strips and bite properly into the block behind them.