Originally Posted by newlight1:
“Yes theres no way I will attempt it myself, I going to ask a handyman to do this but he said to me to make sure I have all the correct parts ready for him as obviously one he books me in and gets here thats time and money, so dont want to end up wasting money and he has to come back again if I dont have the right parts.
Could anyone maybe give me some links to absolutely everything I will need for my TV to be mounted please? so I can then just go and buy them online? Would really appreciate that.
Where would my sky box and now TV things go?”
As someone who does installations for a living then I'd say it's unrealistic to expect you, a novice, to have "
all the correct parts ready for him" when by-the-sound-of-it you don't really know what you're dealing with. Buying a TV bracket is one thing, but is he expecting you to buy every different kind of wall fixing and also come up with solutions for cable concealment and extending the power cables too?
If the guy is a pukka tradesman then he'll carry stuff on his van to deal with the main types of wall construction (plastered brick; blockwork; timber-framed; dot-n-dab) -
I certainly do, and I can't foresee a situation where I'd ever ask a customer to provide anything more than the TV and source gear.
As for the rest of the install, if this is going in a lounge then before the day of the install I would have already had conversations with the customer about options to do with cabling up the wall (i.e. concealed in-wall or surface-mounted in trunking) as well as discussing what else might be required such as HDMI and AV cables. We would have talked about whether there's work required to extend or reroute TV and satellite coax, and considered what might might be needed to control Sky and any other source gear if it is to be concealed out-of-sight in a cabinet. All of this would have been done before-hand so that on the day of the install I turn up prepared and with the right gear to deal with the job in hand.
If your contractor hasn't had these discussions with you then I would suggest that they're really not up to the standard required for this type of work.
For all the reasons outlined above (and a few more besides) then in my view asking for links to "
absolutely everything I will need" isn't going to get you the cut and dried answer you're looking for. There are too many variables. You'll either end up missing something or perhaps wasting a load of cash on stuff that's completely inappropriate.
If Fair Isle really is your location then you probably don't have much choice about the installer you use, so good preparation really is vital. After all, it's not like you can nip out to B&Q or Screwfix.
So then, start off by working out the type of wall construction you're dealing with (e.g. plastered stone/brick or timber frame with plasterboard or blockwork with dot-n-dab plasterboard) and from there you can work out (or ask) what type of fixings will work best. If you're unsure of what any of these wall types look like and how to tell them apart then Google is your friend.
Housing your Sky box needs some kind of shelf. You could bodge something up with a bit of ply and a couple of angle iron brackets but for a little extra in cost you can have something that looks much nicer and has a design that helps hide cables. Amazon link
here
Finally you'll need some way of dealing with power and possibly signal cables running up the wall. The answer to this very much depends on the wall construction and whether you want them hiding within the wall or trunking on the surface. D-Line trunking looks nicer than standard electrician's square trunking. D-Line link
http://www.d-line-it.co.uk/in-the-home/products.