TV Mounting in Holladay, UT

Ramblers, brick fireplaces and the basement below

Around Knudsen Park and along Spring Lane, many streets are still lined with ramblers built in the 1960s and 70s. Upstairs the TV usually goes on the living-room wall or above the brick fireplace; downstairs it goes in a finished basement built out from the foundation wall, where the cables travel the framing cavity in front of it and never the concrete. About 1 in 4 old brick fireplaces we see in pre-1960 houses now holds a gas insert, so every fireplace job starts with the fire running and the wall measured before we pick a height. In these older houses we keep to two small openings, catch the dust and never sand, and cables never go through the attic: Utah attics often hold vermiculite insulation from the Libby, Montana mine. A tilting mount ($49) angles a fireplace TV down toward the sofa.

Rebuilds, stone mantels and Holladay Hills

When a rambler comes down for a custom home, the new great room usually gets a stone gas fireplace and a mantel 54 to 60 inches high. A TV mounted flat above that lands its center near 80 inches, so about 3 in 5 of our fireplace TVs go on a tilting mount; check your numbers with our height tool. About 2 in 3 stone fireplaces in houses built since 1990 are veneer over framing, and veneer is not structure: the anchors go through it into the studs. About 1 in 5 pull-down requests ends as a tilt, usually because of a deep hearth ledge. At Holladay Hills, the 12-block redevelopment of the old Cottonwood Mall site, new condos and townhomes have modern framing but shared walls that may be fire-rated; there we ask before any cut and plan a raceway. More on our fireplace work, or compare nearby Cottonwood Heights.