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Builder walls: what is already behind your Frame
Frisco's housing is young. The median home dates from 2009, and 81.5% of the city's housing units went up in 2000 or later, most of them by production builders who finish the main living-room wall with the same set of rough-ins: a TV outlet set high, a low-voltage plate beside it and, in many houses, a cable run to a closet or a niche above the fireplace. Those spots were chosen for an ordinary TV on an ordinary mount, which sits an inch or two off the wall and hides whatever is behind it.
A Frame TV hides nothing. Samsung quotes a 3 mm gap between The Frame and the wall on its Slim Fit mount, and warns that cables 7.5 mm or thicker behind the screen can push that gap open. So before anyone talks about height, Andrii, who leads our Collin County crew, finds every box, plate and plug on that wall and works out which of them will end up behind the screen.
Power at the TV or in a box: it depends on your Frame's year
Which Frame you bought changes the whole job:
- The 2026 Frame (55 to 98 inches) has no One Connect box on US models; the ports and the power cord connect at the TV. The builder's outlet has to sit behind the screen and be recessed, or power has to be brought to that spot.
- The 2026 Frame Pro sends video from a wireless One Connect box up to 30 feet away, but the TV still needs its own power cord. Samsung says walls and metal cabinets can block that box's signal, so it stays out of the wall and off metal racks.
- The 2025 Frame and earlier take power and every input into the One Connect box, with one thin cable up to the screen. Nothing plugs in behind the TV, which makes these the easiest Frames for a Frisco wall whose outlet is in the wrong place.
Hisense, TCL and LG art TVs take their power at the TV as well. A plug in a standard outlet stands proud of the wall, so the clean answer is a recessed TV box: the outlet sits back inside the wall, the plug and cord stay behind the surface, and a separate opening carries the HDMI cables. Moving or adding an outlet is electrical work. Frisco enforces the 2023 National Electrical Code with local amendments, so that part goes to a licensed electrician, and we plan the mount around it.
When the builder's TV box is in the wrong spot
The most common Frisco snag is a box placed where the builder pictured a modest screen, not where your Frame will actually hang. Alyssa M. had one in her game room over the garage: the builder's TV box sat too high for the set she bought. Andrii cut in a new in-wall kit exactly where the screen hangs and put a blank cover on the old plate, so nothing shows above the Frame and nothing pushes it off the wall.
That kit is a listed in-wall power kit, never the TV's own cord fed through the drywall: the electrical code does not allow flexible cords to be concealed in walls. Samsung, for its part, asks owners to follow local guidelines when the One Connect cable goes in a wall, so we run that cable inside flexible conduit, where it can be pulled out and replaced later without opening the drywall. One TV on drywall takes us about an hour, and about 1.5 hours with the cables hidden inside the wall.
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Two-story great rooms: how high an art TV should hang
Many Frisco living rooms are two-story great rooms with walls of 16 to 20 feet, and the builder's outlet or niche often sits higher than anyone wants to look. About 1 in 3 of our fireplace customers in those rooms end up with the screen 12 to 18 inches below where the builder planned it. An art TV is looked at like a painting, so people tend to hang it a little higher than a TV they only watch, but the room still has to work on movie night. Samsung's own starting point is 42 inches from the floor to the center of the screen for someone on a standard couch; our TV height calculator adjusts that to your seat and screen.
The slim mount holds the Frame flat, with no tilt to fall back on. If the spot is above a gas fireplace, Andrii runs the fireplace at full output for 20 minutes and takes a reading where the lower edge of the screen will sit before anything is decided; Samsung says its TVs should never exceed 104°F. A reading that comes in too warm moves the Frame to the wall beside the fireplace. The rest of that story is on our fireplace TV installation page.
A flat wall for a flush TV
On a regular mount, a slight bow in the drywall disappears. Behind a Frame it shows up as a wider gap at one corner. So we find two studs for the mount, lay a long level across the wall in every direction and correct a bow before the TV goes up. Hisense makes the same demand for its CanvasTV mount — screws into studs or concrete, never bare drywall — and TCL's Picture Frame TV has no VESA holes at all, so its own flush mount is the only way to hang it.
Our guide to mounting a Samsung Frame walks through the paper template and the flat test, the Frame TV installation page compares every art TV model, and city notes are on our Frisco page.
