TV Mounting in Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill is established postwar houses, newer subdivisions and a great deal of townhouse stock. The townhouses are the ones with a wall worth talking about first.
Where the van goes in Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
- Oak Ridges
- Mill Pond
- Observatory
- Jefferson
- Rouge Woods
- Bayview Hill
Not on the list? We still come. See every area, or call and ask.
Working here
The shared wall is a different conversation
A party wall is a fire separation, and it is often block or two separate stud walls with an air gap. Holes through it are not a casual decision, and a bracket bolted hard into it carries sound next door.
Check the stud bay before the bit goes in
The bay directly behind a television is a favourite route for a cold air return, for plumbing on an outside wall, and for old low voltage cable. We find out with a probe rather than with a drill.
The party wall
In a townhouse the wall you share with next door is not an ordinary partition. It is a fire separation, and it is often concrete block, or two separate stud walls built with an air gap between them on purpose. Two things follow from that. Putting holes through a fire separation is not a casual decision, and a bracket bolted hard into a shared assembly carries sound straight through it. Bass especially. Your neighbour hears the film with you.
Most of the time there is a better wall in the room, and we will point at it. If the layout genuinely only works one way and the shared wall is the wall, then it gets done into the structure with anchors rated for what is actually there, and with no more holes than the bracket requires. Where the townhouse belongs to a condominium corporation, the corporation may have something to say about it, and that is worth reading before we arrive rather than after the fact.
Older houses, newer houses
Established houses around Mill Pond and Observatory often have genuine plaster, sometimes on wire lath, and studs that are not reliably on sixteen inch centres because nothing from that period is reliable about it. So we probe. A stud finder reads badly over plaster and wire mesh, and a fine bit in a spot nobody will ever see settles the question faster and more honestly.
Jefferson, Rouge Woods and Oak Ridges are mostly newer drywall over timber. That is predictable framing and a straightforward mount, with one recurring catch worth repeating. The anchors in the bracket box are not rated for a large screen hanging off a full motion arm. As the arm extends it multiplies the load, and the failure is a pull straight out of the wall rather than a slow sag downwards. So the bracket catches two studs, with proper lag screws, every time. One stud and a hopeful drywall plug is how a television ends up face down on the floor. Newer framing is also where engineered members and odd bays turn up near exterior walls, so the sixteen inch rule gets verified rather than trusted.
Wire concealment is offered on every job, and the quote comes before anything is drilled.
While we are in Richmond Hill
Rarely just the one screen.
Asked in Richmond Hill
Can you mount a television on the wall I share with my neighbour?
Usually there is a better wall in the room, because a shared wall is a fire separation and it transmits sound. If it has to be that wall, it gets fixed into the structure properly and with no more holes than the bracket needs.
Do I need permission from the condominium corporation?
If your townhouse is part of one, check first. Some have rules about the shared wall specifically. Finding that out before we arrive is a good deal easier than finding it out afterwards.
How do you avoid the ducting inside the wall?
We probe with a fine bit in an inconspicuous spot before committing to the bracket holes. Hitting a return duct or a water line with a lag screw is an expensive way to learn where it ran.