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Michael, Founder & Lead Installer at TV Mount Q
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Michael — Founder & Lead Installer

Michael started TV Mount Q in Miami in 2016 with a secondhand drill, a borrowed ladder and a car that had seen better days. Ten years later the company has crews in Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, San Diego, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, Seattle and Raleigh and 6,300+ TVs on the wall — and Michael still trains every new installer and writes every guide on this site.

  • 9+ years on the tools. First paid install in 2016, still on a ladder most weeks in 2026.
  • 6,300+ TVs mounted by our crews since 2016 — a company figure from booking records, not a personal tally.
  • Every bracket is load-tested by hand at twice the TV's weight before the screen goes on. Every job, no exceptions.

I'm Michael. This is how TV Mount Q started.

There was no plan and no company. In 2016 I was new to Miami, working whatever jobs I could find, and on weekends I hung TVs for neighbors — mostly because I owned a drill and a level and didn't mind being the one who got called. I charged too little, drove too far and learned something on every single visit.

The first year ran on word of mouth. A neighbor told a coworker, the coworker told her building manager, and suddenly I was answering the phone between jobs I hadn't finished yet. I made every mistake a one-man business can make: booked two customers for the same hour, quoted a job so low I went home with less than I'd spent on gas, promised “this afternoon” and arrived after dark. Each of those turned into a rule I still keep — a clear price before anyone gets in the van, a time window we actually hit, and leaving the room cleaner than we found it.

The first person I hired was a friend who could hold the other end of an 85-inch TV. The second van came two years later. Then a real phone line, an online calculator so people didn't have to wait for a callback, and crews in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas and the rest — each one trained the way I was trained: by doing the work next to someone who cared. Today we've put 6,300+ TVs on the wall. I still find that number a little hard to believe when I remember the first one.

I'm still on a ladder most weeks. Partly because I train every new installer myself, and partly because I never stopped liking the job: you walk into someone's home, and an hour later the room looks the way they pictured it.

What I do

I run the Miami crews, train every new installer on our protocol and still take the jobs that need judgment: TVs above fireplaces, 85-inch-plus screens on full-motion arms, historic plaster in the Gables and Miami Shores, condo towers with strict building rules. When a new bracket or a new wall system shows up, I test it on our shop wall before a crew uses it in someone's home.

The numbers — what they actually mean

  • 6,300+ installs. Counted from booking records across all our markets since 2016. It is a floor, not a rounded-up marketing number, and we update it a few times a year.
  • 240+ cities. Every city where we have actually sent a crew, across 12 metro areas.
  • 3-year workmanship warranty. If something we installed loosens, sags or drifts out of level, we come back and fix it at no charge.
  • Same-day. Most bookings made before noon in Miami-Dade and Broward are on the wall that afternoon — not a promise for every address, but the normal week.

What I specialize in

  • Concrete block and poured concrete. Rotary hammer, carbide SDS bits, sleeve anchors or Tapcon screws sized to the load — the default wall in South Florida, not a special case. More in mounting a TV on concrete.
  • Metal-stud condo partitions. Quarter-inch snap-toggles through the steel, spread across two studs. Lag bolts never. See metal studs.
  • TVs above fireplaces. Surface temperature at full burn with an infrared thermometer, and pull-down mounts when the natural height is too high. See TV over a fireplace.
  • Screens 75 inches and up. Two-person lifts, backer plates, heavy-duty arms rated well past the panel weight.
  • In-wall cable concealment. UL-listed power relocation kits — never an extension cord inside the wall.
  • Outdoor and balcony installs. Stainless hardware against salt air, weather-rated screens and a plan for hurricane season.

What I carry on every truck

The hardware is the difference between a TV that is on the wall and a TV that stays on the wall for ten years:

  • SDS-plus rotary hammer with carbide bits from 3/16 to 1/2 inch
  • A magnetic stud finder for steel and an electronic one for wood
  • Infrared thermometer for fireplace and wall-surface checks
  • Sleeve anchors and Tapcon screws for block and concrete
  • 1/4-inch snap-toggles for metal studs and hollow walls
  • 5/16 and 3/8-inch lag bolts, 3 and 4 inches long, for wood framing
  • UL-listed in-wall power kits and low-voltage brush plates
  • Paintable cable raceway in three widths
  • Digital level accurate to a tenth of a degree
  • Drop cloths, a HEPA vacuum and painter's tape — marks drilled through tape keep plaster and paint from chipping

My install protocol — every job, the same eight steps

  1. Read the wall. Magnet sweep for steel, electronic finder for wood, a tap test and a 1/8-inch probe hole where the finders disagree.
  2. Check the heat (fireplace jobs). Readings above the mantel at full burn, compared against the TV maker's operating range.
  3. Confirm the mount. VESA pattern, a weight rating with at least 25% to spare, and the viewing angle from the seat you actually use.
  4. Mark and drill. Tape over the marks, the right bit for the wall, pilot holes every time.
  5. Anchor and test. Fasteners chosen for the wall and the weight; a hand load test at twice the TV's weight before the screen goes up.
  6. Route the cables. Inside the wall where the wall allows it; paint-matched raceway on block and concrete.
  7. Hang, level, lock. Level to a tenth of a degree, tilt and arm stops set, safety screws in.
  8. Clean up and hand over. Packaging gone, dust vacuumed, and a photo of the mount and hardware sent to you for your records.

Why I write the guides on this site

Most TV mounting advice online is stitched together from spec sheets by people who have never held a rotary hammer, and almost all of it assumes a wood-stud wall. That is the wrong assumption for most homes in South Florida — and for a lot of lofts, condos and older houses everywhere else.

So I write down what we actually do: which anchor holds in hollow block, where the One Connect box goes behind a Frame TV, why a "universal" bracket sometimes isn't. When an article says a kit comes up one bolt short, it is because we have watched it happen on a job.

If a guide helps you do it yourself, great. If it helps you decide this one is not a DIY job, the calculator gives you an exact price in about a minute.

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Quick answers about Michael

Who is Michael from TV Mount Q?
Michael is the founder and lead installer of TV Mount Q, a TV mounting company he started in Miami in 2016. He runs the Miami crews, trains new installers and still handles many of the complex South Florida jobs himself — fireplaces, large screens and condo towers.
How many TVs has Michael installed?
TV Mount Q crews have completed 6,300+ installations since 2016. That is a company-wide figure taken from booking records, not a personal count, and it is updated a few times a year.
Does Michael still do installs himself?
Yes. In Miami-Dade and Broward he takes many of the jobs that need a judgment call. Crews in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, San Diego, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, Seattle and Raleigh follow the same protocol and use the same hardware list.
How can I contact Michael?
Through the contact page, by phone or text, or by email — editorial questions and corrections to the guides are read and answered personally.

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