Sanus Wall Mount

Flat-panel LCD televisions come with attachable bases that allow them to be placed on a standard TV stand. These bases can also be left off of the televisions, and the flat-screen LCDs can then be wall-mounted. Wall mounts for flat-panel LCD TVs are available for purchase separately from the units and can be used to mount nearly any make of LCD television.

Instructions

1

Buy the proper wall mount for your LCD TV. Wall mounts will have both size limits and weight capacities listed on the packaging. Your TV should fall within both the size and weight limits in order to be securely mounted on the wall.

2

Select a location for your LCD TV. LCD televisions are best viewed when they do not have a light source, such as doors, windows or bright artificial lights, behind them. Try to find a location in the room where the lights will not create glare on the screen.

3

Measure up from the floor to determine the height for your screen. A good mounting height for your television will be at a height where the center to bottom of the screen sits at eye level with the majority of the seating in the room.

4

Figure out what you are going to do with your television cables. Run them through the wall, or hide them with some sort of furniture or wall coverings. To run them through the wall, cut two holes in the wall for the cords with a drywall saw, one at the TVs level and one at the bottom of the wall vertically aligned with the top hole. Drop the cords into the top hole, and use a clothes hanger to fish them out at the bottom.

5

Locate the wall studs by using an electronic stud finder or by gently tapping the wall with a nail and listening for the solid sound that differs from the hollow sound of the rest of the wall. Once you locate a stud, hammer a nail into the wall to make sure there is a stud there, then mark the location of the studs.

6

Measure the distance between all of the screw holes on the TV mount. Mark the screw holes on the wall, making sure that each hole falls on a stud. Use heavy-gauge screws to screw the back plate of the wall mount to the wall.

7

Screw the front plate of the wall mount onto the LCD TV. Once the front plate of the wall mount is attached, lift the LCD TV up to the back plate and lower the front plate down onto the back plate.