TV Mounting in Encino, CA

Condo buildings off Ventura Boulevard

Encino's condos come in small pockets rather than towers: a 1965 boutique complex on Moorpark Street just north of the boulevard, a three-story 1987 building on Woodley Avenue, a gated complex on Balboa Boulevard with a pool and tennis courts. Under California's Davis-Stirling Act, an association that must approve a change has to give its decision in writing, so we start with the paperwork. Send the board's alteration form with your request and we return a short plan (wall, mount, cable route) plus a certificate of insurance, usually the same day. Where the TV wall is shared with a neighbor or the board rules out cuts, we run a painted raceway along the trim, as our raceway guide shows. Power runs inside the wall only through a listed in-wall power kit; the TV's own cord never does.

Fireplace walls in 1950s and 1960s houses

In the ranch houses of Encino Village and the streets toward Lake Balboa, the fireplace usually anchors the living room, and about half of those we mount over burn gas logs. Before Kostiantyn marks a hole he runs the logs and reads the wall above the firebox; roughly one in eight is too warm just over the mantel, and then the TV goes higher on a tilting mount (from $49). The mantels we measure stand 50 to 60 inches, which puts a flat screen's center near 75 inches, so tilt is the rule here. Solid brick takes about two hours. A thin stone veneer is decoration, not structure, so we anchor through it into the framing. For eye-level movie nights, a pull-down mantel mount is assembled and tension-set on site (from $99); Kostiantyn has set up about 45 of ours, from Encino to Sherman Oaks.