Sanus Wall Mount

Mounting a TV to a wall has become standard fare, thanks to lightweight flat-panel LCD and plasma televisions. You can mount a TV to a striped wall, providing you have purchased a TV wall-mounting kit from an electronics store or a home and garden shop. The backs of LCD and plasma televisions employ a standard mounting scheme, so any brand-name wall-mounting kits can be used. A few household tools will be needed as well.

Instructions

1

Measure the width between the two grooves on the back of the TV that the TV brackets from the TV wall-mounting kit will be attached to -- use a tape measure to do this.

2

Place a dot on the wall with a pencil at the height where you want the TV to be. Measure across from the dot on the wall using the tape measure. Make another dot on the wall where the measurement that was taken from the back of the TV is reached.

3

Place a stud finder against one of the dots on the wall and move it left and right until the needle twitches, indicating a stud. Make an "X" at this point with the grease pencil. Repeat this procedure at the other dot on the wall.

4

Place the TV wall bracket against the striped wall, with the holes in the bracket lined up with the dots made on the wall. Partially screw in a metal screw in the two dots on the wall with a power drill screwdriver.

5

Place a spirit level against the top edge of the bracket. Adjust the bracket so that the bubble in the spirit level is evenly between the two lines on the information panel. Screw the two screws all the rest of the way in. Screw in metal screws through the other holes in the bracket.

6

Place a TV frame from the TV mounting kit into each of the two grooves on the back of the TV. Screw metal screws through each TV frame into the back of the TV using a Phillips screwdriver.

7

Lift the TV and insert the TV frames into the grooves in the TV wall bracket. Tighten the set screws to secure the TV frames in the bracket.