Sports bar on Glenwood Avenue
Built before opening with a second technician, on the bar's new dedicated circuit; micro-adjustment closed the seams.
Tech: Yaroslav · On site: 6 h 30 min
Glenwood South is Raleigh living upstairs: condos over restaurants since 2000, 417 Cortland apartments above a Publix, and a 37-story tower rising on the Pine State Creamery site. We know these buildings inside and out, and can usually mount your TV the same day at a flat price.
TV mounting in Glenwood South 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 brick, stone or plaster.
Five-over-one buildings have concrete for the garage and lobby and wood studs above it, so most apartment walls are drywall on wood. Lag bolts into two studs, pull-tested, and a raceway ($39) for the cables. Raceways without cutting.
Corridor and demising walls between units are fire-rated. We never cut into them — the TV goes on an interior wall or on studs of a shared wall with nothing opened. Mounts for apartments.
Open studios need a screen that turns. A full-motion arm ($69) swings the TV from the couch to the kitchen island and folds flat when you do not need it. Tilt vs. swivel.
A soundbar mounted right under the screen ($69) keeps the counter clear, and one raceway carries both cables. Soundbars and shelves.
4,195 homes and about 6,286 residents. The age and type of a home decide what is behind the drywall, so we check this before we quote.
29% owner-occupied · 71% rented
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates: year built, units in structure, tenure. Census figures for ZIP Code 27605 — there is no separate Census boundary for Glenwood South.
Nearly half of homes here, 48.4%, sit in buildings of 20 or more units, and 70.6% are rented, so most TV walls come with a property manager, a lease and drilling rules. Yet 32.0% date from before 1960: the older houses on side streets toward Boylan Heights, where plaster over lath still turns up. A recent mid-rise is wood studs above its podium, a tower is often poured concrete, an old cottage is plaster, so tell us which when you book.
Glenwood South packs different structures into a short walk, and each takes its own anchor. Condo buildings from the 2000s over restaurants often have steel-stud partitions, which hold a TV only with toggles spread across several studs, never a lag. Taller towers, and Highline Glenwood once its 37 floors open around 2028, put poured concrete behind some living-room walls; there we use sleeve anchors and plan about 1.5 hours. The houses left on side streets carry plaster, and many predate 1978, so we drill only the anchor holes with a dust shroud and never sand paint. One rule never bends: the TV's power cord stays out of the wall and out of any raceway with the other cables. In-wall power means a listed kit or an electrician's outlet. More on concrete walls and steel studs.
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A Glenwood South job is half carpentry and half logistics, and Yaroslav has handled both here since 2019. About 9 in 10 of the towers we work in want a certificate of insurance before we arrive, about 3 in 4 want the service elevator reserved, and about half allow contractors on weekdays only, so we settle all of it by email before we pick a time. The district's noise rules let venues run louder on weekend nights than the rest of Raleigh allows; if that sound reaches your living room, a soundbar under the TV ($69) keeps dialogue clear without maxing the volume. Pricing is flat: a 61–85-inch TV on the wall is $129, and same-day slots are often open. Neighbors in Downtown Raleigh and North Hills book this way too, or send a request.
A few jobs from the last months — the kind of walls and setups we see here most.
Built before opening with a second technician, on the bar's new dedicated circuit; micro-adjustment closed the seams.
Tech: Yaroslav · On site: 6 h 30 min
Certificate of insurance and service elevator arranged ahead; the soundbar rides on the TV mount, so the concrete took one set of holes.
Tech: Yaroslav · On site: 1 h 30 min
Steel studs won't hold a lag, so the plate spans three studs on steel-stud toggles; a second technician helped lift, as on every 75-inch.
Tech: Yaroslav · On site: 1 h 10 min
Ready to book or have questions? Send a request — we’ll reply within minutes.
One price list for Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Chapel Hill and out to Pinehurst and Fayetteville — the wall type does not change the price, and neither does the drive. Oakwood plaster, stacked-stone fireplaces and downtown 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 Glenwood South are handled by our Raleigh crew — Yaroslav, Danylo, Illia, Tymofii — 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 North Raleigh, Durham, west Cary and Garner. Pick a slot in the calculator and we confirm it by text.
Wall-mounted TV in a Glenwood South studio
Living room in a condo above restaurants
Video wall over a Glenwood Avenue bar
Concrete-wall condo living room near Smoky Hollow
Bedroom TV in a downtown mid-rise apartment
Older plaster-walled house on a side street
Wall-mounted TV in a Glenwood South studio
Living room in a condo above restaurants
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