How to hang a TV

Those of you that have a flat panel LCD TV (or plasma) probably love it, but it can be tricky to find a good and safe location for the TV to reside permanently. We have had ours in several houses and used several configurations (most people outside of "WitPro" would not experience this...).

For this house we inherited a 2X4 frame made to fit the "media niche" the builder in the 1990s decided was all the bigger a TV would ever be... ~30"


Our mounting bracket is different than the predecessor so we had to add two more vertical boards to mount onto using the lag bolts

The mounting of the bracket was performed on the ground, once the whole unit was ready to go into the niche we used 8 screws on each side to mount - over engineered, but worth it not to be concerned about the TV falling on us or the kids.

And here it is in the final state as it is today.