TV Mounting in Oxford, NC

Old Oxford: plaster, painted trim and courthouse-era rooms

The Oxford Historic District went on the National Register in 1988 and grew in 2020; it counts 201 contributing buildings, from early 19th-century houses to the 1930s. Greek Revival and Late Victorian rooms here usually mean plaster on wood lath and several coats of old paint. Danylo starts with a test hole inside the plate's footprint, so the patch disappears behind the TV, and he drills only the anchor and cable holes with a dust shroud. North Carolina treats paint disturbance in pre-1978 housing as regulated work, which is another reason we never sand or scrape. Mantels and chimney breasts in these houses are often plastered too, so a fireplace TV adds test holes to find solid brick. Where the plaster is too thick for a recessed box, the cables go into paintable raceway; see our cable concealment options.

New streets off Highway 96 and the next big neighborhoods

LGI Homes planned a 302-lot subdivision on about 130 acres off Highway 96 South, Hatcher Creek offers farmhouse-style homes with a clubhouse and pool, and the planned Oxford Park community would add more than 1,300 houses. In houses built since 2000, about 1 in 5 TV walls we open are framed 24 inches on center, so Danylo carries wide plates that still reach two studs. A TV on the short knee wall of a bonus room gets a tilting mount. Mounting a 65-inch here is $129. Hiding the wires behind drywall with a listed in-wall power kit is $69; the TV's own power cord never goes inside the wall, the kit does that job. Every screen of 75 inches or more brings a second technician from the Durham crew. Henderson shares the same route, and you can request a time for today.