hi my name is Dave I'm a custom audio and video installer for Abt electronics and
appliances in Glenview Illinois and today I'm gonna demonstrate how to hang
a 50-inch TV on a wall we got to start with some basic hand tools we've got a
level stud finder tape measure the appropriate fasteners for the work
surface drill to tighten these drill to drilled the larger drill is to drill the
fastener holes screwdrivers the plate that goes on the wall and the arm that
hangs on the TV and the process is pretty simple we're gonna take these
arms mount them on the television and then I'm gonna mount this plate on the
wall and the TV's gonna hang on the plate and we just need to put the arms
on the television I prefer to do this with a screwdriver you know some guys
use power tools but me I've always felt more comfortable doing this just with
hand tools now we just need to tighten these guys down okay so we've got the
arms on our television we need to mount our backing plate on the wall and to get
a measurement we need a measuring tape backer plate stud finder very important
level and our pencil pencil okay so it's not gonna hurt the TV to lay this stuff
on it and the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to clip the backer plate
onto the television and the way I like to do it is I'm going to measure the
difference between the bottom of the plate in the bottom of the television in
this case it's almost exactly 10 inches we determined earlier today that the
bottom of our television is going to be about 56 inches from the bottom of the
floor so now we need our level pencil stud finder alright
so determine the center of our wall is about right here and then we're gonna go
up these numbers are very round so it's very easy to remember but 56 is going to
be the bottom of our television so the bottom of our bracket is going to be 66
and I've already made a mark for the bottom of the bracket next thing we need
to do so we need to find our studs that's pretty simple there we go got the
all-clear light there's the edge of one
and there's the other edge now I'm just going to mark the center of the stud for
you'll see why I'm doing that a minute and up there's the edge or the other one
and we're gonna go back this side now up it's not the steady one and there's the
other one right there I got I'm gonna mark the center of that now what I'm
gonna do cause it's bracketed the backing plate is so heavy so I'm just
gonna bring my line down so that when I draw the line from it and obviously I'm
making sure these a level constantly is I'm gonna then use this to determine
which set of holes I'm gonna use on the back of that mount
some installers will put blue tape on the wall my opinion is TVs gonna hide it
anyway so I'm not too too worried about that we got our mount it does have an
up-and-down and I almost had it upside down yo you may want to have another
person assist you doing this I've done this a couple times so I don't feel any
discomfort doing this on my own it just takes a minute to level it out cuz it's
a little heavy and again I'm just marking my pilot hold mark my holes for
my where my bolts are gonna go and then I'm pulling it down and that's about it
so we've got our arms on our television we've got the dimension for a television
in our backer plate to drill some holes to mount our fasteners so the first thing
I'm going to do is drill my pilot holes make sure that everything's good which
I'm sure it is yep good yep like how that feels
there we go one more and then since those are just our pilots we need to
open these up and for the fasteners I'm using today they require a half-inch
hole so there's our half inch drill bit
there we go and those are our holes all right next thing we've got to do is put
our fasteners in and we have special fasteners for the wall that we're
mounting them on and I would you know always encourage you to use the
appropriate fasteners for the work surface that you're mounting to and
again I've been doing this for over 10 years and have hung 20,000 TVs I don't
really know so you know I feel very comfortable using these if you don't use
another fastener nope you need the bracket this is a little heavy
and there we go ones in twos in threes in and for soon and I prefer to use an
impact driver which is a little loud and we're going to check for level that's
pretty good I'm gonna raise this side I'd feel a little happier if that side
were raised a little bit
and again this is what the impact driver is nice for cuz it really snug stuff up
good there we go and we're dead level and the last step obviously we've got
the plate on the wall we got the arms on the TV we got to hang the TV this is our
last step I would highly recommend you get somebody else to help you do this
part but you don't have to there we go
TV on the wall