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Condo towers: concrete walls and a board that decides
Boca Raton lives in towers as much as in houses: 47.1% of its housing units are in buildings of five or more, and 36.7% in buildings of twenty or more. Since 2021 the city has required buildings 30 years and older that are more than three stories or 50 feet tall to be recertified, and 242 buildings meet those criteria, with inspections starting on the barrier island east of the Intracoastal and moving west.
Inside those buildings the wall you want the Frame on is usually poured concrete or block, and it is rarely only yours. Florida's condominium law bars an owner from doing anything in the unit that would harm the safety or soundness of the common elements, and it puts any material alteration of them through the association's own process. Hanging a TV on a few anchors is routine; cutting the concrete for an outlet or a media box is where boards draw the line. Yevhen, who works the coast for our Miami crews, handles the building side for you: the certificate of insurance, the service elevator and the hours when drilling is allowed.
Recertification adds one more wrinkle. Steven R. lives in an east-Boca tower more than 30 years old that was going through it, and his board had paused wall openings until the inspection was done. Yevhen mounted the Frame, ran the cables in a paintable raceway for now and planned the in-wall route for after the recertification.
Which Frame suits a concrete wall
On concrete, the model you bought matters more than anywhere else, because power is the hard part:
- A 2025 or earlier Frame sends power and every input into the One Connect box, with one thin cable up to the screen. Nothing plugs in behind the TV, so the existing outlet can stay where it is and the box sits in a console below.
- The 2026 Frame has no One Connect box on US models; its ports and power cord connect at the TV. On concrete that usually means a raceway from the existing outlet up to the screen, because a plug in a standard outlet stands proud of the wall and the Frame sits only a few millimeters off it.
- The 2026 Frame Pro sends video from a wireless box up to 30 feet away, but the TV still needs its own power cord, and Samsung says walls and metal cabinets can block the box's signal.
The slim mount itself is no problem on concrete with the right anchors; Hisense goes further and insists its UltraSlim mount's screws go into studs or concrete, never bare drywall. Where the wall you picked turns out to be a steel-stud partition, Yevhen looks for the concrete wall nearby or uses fasteners made for steel studs.
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Humid air and the One Connect box
South Florida's air is heavy: at both Miami and West Palm Beach, relative humidity averages 82% in the morning and 61% in the afternoon. That matters to the one part of a Frame that runs warm, the One Connect box. Samsung's manual asks for ventilation space around it and says not to stand it on its end, so we put it in a console or open cabinet where air moves, lying flat, never shut in a sealed drawer.
Hiding the box inside the wall is possible in a house, not in a tower. The in-wall media enclosures that hold it carry no fire rating and must not go into a fire-rated wall, and they need a listed outlet installed by a licensed electrician. In a condo, the wall you share with a neighbor or the corridor is often fire-rated, so there the box stays in the console.
Country-club homes and Old Floresta
Away from the towers, the Frames we hang are in the country-club communities to the west and in the older neighborhoods near downtown. Boca Raton is where our Miami crews do the most fireplace jobs of any city — 16 so far — even though only 4.7% of the city's homes heat mainly with utility gas. A flush Frame can't tilt, so above a gas fireplace the height and the heat reading decide everything; our fireplace TV installation page explains how we take it.
In the country-club homes about 6 in 10 of our cable jobs go inside the wall; in the condos they go into raceway. Old Floresta, the city's first historic district since 1990, is known for Mizner-era Spanish-style houses with rough-finished stucco walls, and in houses that old we check what the wall is made of before we drill, as we would in any older home.
The Frame TV installation page compares every art TV model, our Miami Frame guide covers the region's concrete, and city notes are on our Boca Raton page.
