University City is Charlotte's far northeast corner: UNC Charlotte, University Research Park and the Blue Line stations at J.W. Clay and UNC Charlotte–Main, with Highland Creek's long cul-de-sacs to the north. Most homes here are under twenty-five years old, so walls are predictable — and Ihor's University-area crew is based close by for same-day visits.
TV mounting in University City is flat-rate: $119 up to 60", $129 for 61–85" and from $179 for 86" and larger, plus $40 for each additional TV. Mounts from $39, cables hidden in a raceway for $39 or inside the wall for $69. No travel fee and no surcharge for stone or plaster.
Apartments and townhomes are wood framing with thin drywall and lots of shared walls. We mount into studs only, use a raceway you can remove ($39) and patch the holes at move-out if you book a dismount. Renter-friendly cables.
Highland Creek and Mallard Creek homes have gas fireplaces with tile or stone surrounds and bonus rooms. We check the heat above the firebox and the viewing height before choosing the mount. TVs over fireplaces.
Not every lease allows holes. When yours doesn't, we can set up a floor stand or a no-drill option, and when it does, a small fixed mount ($39) is the cheapest way to get the TV off the dresser. No-drill options.
Families who bought a house here in 2005 are now swapping a 50-inch for a 75. A new TV often needs a new mount; we take down the old one ($49) and reuse the studs when they line up. Best mounts for apartments.
24,991 homes and about 50,003 residents. The age and type of a home decide what is behind the drywall, so we check this before we quote.
28% owner-occupied · 72% rented
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates: year built, units in structure, tenure. Census figures for ZIP Code 28262 — there is no separate Census boundary for University City.
This is one of the youngest parts of Charlotte: the median home was built in 2004, and 31.1% went up after 2010. That means wood studs, standard drywall and outlets where a builder expected a TV. The flip side is that 62% of homes sit in buildings of five or more units and 71.7% are rented, so for most of our visits here the lease, not the wall, decides whether cables go inside the wall or into a removable raceway.
The Blue Line Extension opened in March 2018 — 9.3 miles and 11 new stations from Center City to campus — and the apartments followed: more than 5,000 were built, under way or planned along the line. That is why so many University City TV walls we see are less than ten years old. Here is what each kind of home usually hands us:
| Home | Where | What we anchor into | Cables usually |
|---|---|---|---|
| Station apartment, 2015 and later | J.W. Clay, around the Town Center plan | wood studs over a concrete podium | removable raceway |
| Student rental | College Downs, across from campus | wood studs, thin drywall | raceway or on the TV mount |
| 1990s–2000s family home | Highland Creek (about 8,000 homes), Mallard Creek | studs; stacked stone at the fireplace | inside the wall |
| Townhome | off Mallard Creek and W.T. Harris | studs, fire-rated party wall | inside on exterior walls |
Many of our customers work at the research park — Wells Fargo, TIAA and Duke Energy offices — and want the job done before or after shifts. Our 8am–8pm hours, seven days a week, fit that. Renters should read mounting a TV in an apartment before talking to the landlord.
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In the apartments, rooms are long and narrow with a balcony door on one wall, so check where the outlet and the cable jack are before you pick a spot; a fixed mount ($39) is enough when the sofa faces the wall straight on. If the lease rules out cutting drywall, we hide the cords in paintable raceway ($39) that comes off cleanly at move-out.
In Highland Creek and Mallard Creek, the big question is the fireplace and the bonus room over the garage. We heat-test gas logs before choosing a height, and in bonus rooms we look for the gable wall first. Use our height calculator to see where the screen center should land, or ask for cable concealment inside the wall.
Ihor's crew also covers NoDa and Harrisburg — see the whole Charlotte area.
A few jobs from the last months — the kind of walls and setups we see here most.
The only stud-backed spot was beside the balcony door, so a full-motion arm let the TV swing toward the sofa. The lease allowed holes but no cutting, so a slim raceway carried the HDMI down.
Tech: Ihor · On site: 55 min
We ran a 20-minute burn on the gas logs first and moved the TV 10 inches below the builder's high outlet box, with a listed in-wall power kit bringing the power down.
Tech: Ihor · On site: 1 h 55 min
The wall the owner picked was the shared one, so we mounted on the opposite exterior wall and kept every screw out of the neighbor's side.
Tech: Ihor · On site: 45 min
Ready to book or have questions? Send a request — we’ll reply within minutes.
One price list for Charlotte and both sides of the state line — the wall type does not change the price, and neither does the drive. Stacked stone, bonus-room slopes and Uptown concrete are billed exactly like drywall.
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Up to 60" | $119 |
| 61–85" | $129 |
| 86" and larger | from $179 |
| Each additional TV | from $40 |
| Frame / art TV | from $169 |
| Fixed | $39 |
| Tilting | $49 |
| Full-motion | $69 |
| Heavy-duty, for 86"+ | from $59 |
| Internal (inside the wall) | $69 |
| External (cable raceway) | $39 |
Jobs in University City are handled by our Charlotte crew — Volodymyr, Stepan, Ihor — on the same flat rates as everywhere else, with the same hardware on every truck and the same 3-year warranty. Crews run out of South Charlotte, the University area and Lake Norman. Pick a slot in the calculator and we confirm it by text.
Living-room TV in a University City apartment
Family-room TV over a Highland Creek fireplace
Bedroom TV in a townhome near campus
Raceway run on a new-construction drywall wall
Bonus-room TV in a Mallard Creek home
Swing-arm TV in a light-rail apartment
Living-room TV in a University City apartment
Family-room TV over a Highland Creek fireplace
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