Every so often I turn up to a job where someone’s already done half my work for me — in a good way. This 85-inch wall mount in Balgowlah Heights was one of those.
The customer had an electrician in during earlier work on the house, and asked for a power point to be run behind where the TV was going. That one decision made the whole install simpler. Instead of surface cords or a separate power point off to the side, the TV just plugs straight in behind itself — nothing visible, nothing to work around.
Wall Mounting an 85-Inch TV on Gyprock in Balgowlah Heights
The wall was standard gyprock (plasterboard), which made running a cable through it straightforward. The customer had also already bought her own wall bracket, so I fitted the TV to that rather than supplying one — always happy to work with a bracket a customer’s already sourced, as long as it’s rated for the size and weight of the TV going on it.
With the power sorted, the remaining job was pulling an HDMI cable through the wall cavity, from the TV point down to floor level, ready to connect to the source device. Up near the TV there’s nothing to see — no power cord, no bracket hardware, just the TV sitting flush on the wall. The HDMI’s still visible at the bottom in this photo because the customer’s cabinet hasn’t gone in yet — once that’s in place, the cable and the source device disappear into it.
Why the Power Point Placement Matters
If you’re renovating, building, or even just repainting a room before a TV goes up, this is worth remembering: get an electrician to run a power point to where the TV bracket will sit, at the height the TV will actually hang. It costs very little to do at that stage, and it’s the difference between a wall mount that looks properly built-in versus one with a visible cord snaking down to a power point that’s in the wrong spot.
I get asked to retrofit this after the fact all the time, and it’s always more work (and sometimes more mess) than doing it at the rough-in stage.
Planning a Wall Mount, or Already Mid-Renovation?
If you’re at the point of choosing where power points go, or you’ve already got a TV bracket sitting in a box waiting to be installed, I’m happy to help either way — from a quick chat about placement before the sparky arrives, through to the full wall mount and cable run.
Call That TV Guy for TV wall mounting across the Northern Beaches and North Shore.