TV Mounting in Downtown Cary, NC

Plaster bungalows in the National Register district

Between South Academy Street, Dry Avenue and West Park Street, the historic district holds about thirty houses from roughly 1890 to 1945, when Cary was a railroad village. Their walls are usually plaster on wood lath, so Tymofii drills a test hole inside the bracket's footprint first. On plaster near downtown about 1 in 3 of our hidden-cable jobs end in a paintable raceway, when the plaster won't hold a recessed box. In houses built before 1978 we drill only the anchor and cable holes, with a dust shroud, and never sand painted trim. Exterior changes on locally designated properties need a Certificate of Appropriateness; our work stays inside, and if a run would need a new hole through the siding, we stop and you check with the town first. Our plaster guide explains the anchors.

Russell Hills ranches, gas fireplaces and new infill

Most of our downtown visits are in the Russell Hills ranches and the 1970s houses off Walnut Street: drywall or paneling on wood studs, often with a brick fireplace in the den. Those fireplaces mostly burn gas, so every fireplace TV starts with a 20-minute burn at full output and a reading where the TV's bottom edge will sit. If it reads hot, the screen goes higher on a tilt or onto the wall beside the hearth. Anchors go into the brick faces, never the mortar joints, the same way we work the bigger dens of Kildaire Farms. The condos and townhomes along Academy and Chatham are quicker, about 50 minutes for one TV on drywall. If you want the wires gone, the TV's power cord never goes inside the wall: we fit a listed in-wall power kit fed from the outlet below, from $69.