plamsa TV over fire place
Discussion
Expecting completion on the 7th of sept.
So 1st topic concerning the house, which needs everything done to it- where to put the telly
Plan is to build a false front on the chimney, recess the TV (50" PZ700) flush to the wall, and have a low inglenook fireplace with a fire basket, probably gas, as illustrated by my friend rembrandt:
I want the TV as low as possible, hate the "looking up at the sky" wall mounts you often see and I thin the inglenook will look better stopping at about 900mm than other options. The space will be mostly void, air vents both sides as depicted in orange.
What do you think, it's here and not in DIY because I want the more optimum for TV viewing technical perspective.
And, Will there be enough venting?
So 1st topic concerning the house, which needs everything done to it- where to put the telly
Plan is to build a false front on the chimney, recess the TV (50" PZ700) flush to the wall, and have a low inglenook fireplace with a fire basket, probably gas, as illustrated by my friend rembrandt:
I want the TV as low as possible, hate the "looking up at the sky" wall mounts you often see and I thin the inglenook will look better stopping at about 900mm than other options. The space will be mostly void, air vents both sides as depicted in orange.
What do you think, it's here and not in DIY because I want the more optimum for TV viewing technical perspective.
And, Will there be enough venting?
Sounds like a plan, as long as the TV isnt in the heat stream of the fire it will be fine. The firebox its self will have to be built by a Gas safe person, they wont be happy if they turn up to install the fire and discover its surrounded by MDF 
Or better still get rid of the fire completely and put your boxes in there!
Or better still get rid of the fire completely and put your boxes in there!I've just done something very similar to my place. I have a wood burning stove in my fireplace so heat wasn't really an issue as this sort of radiates rather than just blast heat straight at it. Directly above my mantlepiece it remains fairly cool, so in my experience, all is ok to do this.
I looked in to recessing the TV, but I just don't like the look of it to be honest, it just doesn't look right. Because I was being picky, I got an LED Samsung jobbie (UE46d8000) and a £20 mounting kit (it's literally just two bolts with a disk on the end which a bit of steel cable slips over and hangs like a picture). Once mounted, the front of the screen is only about 3cm away from the wall, so it looks very flush rather than in your face. I chased all the cables from the TV so they pop out in the alcove on the right hand side of the fireplace, put some batons up and then plaster boarded it. I was quite meticulous with this, so everything was measured many times and all the cables fed through the wall and out of the appropriate part of the plasterboard.
I have some floating shelves going up over the weekend that fill the alcove to the right, and will be using a router so I can build some supports at either end of the shelf, but get it to all look seamless and not have any horrible looking supports on show. My amp, gadgets (PS3 etc) all then just back on to the HDMI's poking out the wall so there will be practically no trace of any cables.
The main issue I've had is that I have surround sound and some large floorstanding speakers, and there is nowhere to put the centre speaker as you're up against a wall. If you have any AV gear to install also, you will need to draw loads of diagrams to figure out how to do it all. If you're only using a TV, then your install will be simple, it's once you need to start hooking things up together that it becomes a pain.
My install started off easy, then I saw the new TV could hook up to a home computer network (so you can use things like BBC iPlayer etc), so that meant running a powerlead for the TV, an Ethernet cable, HDMI cable and an Aerial lead in the wall, then when it all hits the Amp, it was going to get messy hence me putting a false wall up.
I looked in to recessing the TV, but I just don't like the look of it to be honest, it just doesn't look right. Because I was being picky, I got an LED Samsung jobbie (UE46d8000) and a £20 mounting kit (it's literally just two bolts with a disk on the end which a bit of steel cable slips over and hangs like a picture). Once mounted, the front of the screen is only about 3cm away from the wall, so it looks very flush rather than in your face. I chased all the cables from the TV so they pop out in the alcove on the right hand side of the fireplace, put some batons up and then plaster boarded it. I was quite meticulous with this, so everything was measured many times and all the cables fed through the wall and out of the appropriate part of the plasterboard.
I have some floating shelves going up over the weekend that fill the alcove to the right, and will be using a router so I can build some supports at either end of the shelf, but get it to all look seamless and not have any horrible looking supports on show. My amp, gadgets (PS3 etc) all then just back on to the HDMI's poking out the wall so there will be practically no trace of any cables.
The main issue I've had is that I have surround sound and some large floorstanding speakers, and there is nowhere to put the centre speaker as you're up against a wall. If you have any AV gear to install also, you will need to draw loads of diagrams to figure out how to do it all. If you're only using a TV, then your install will be simple, it's once you need to start hooking things up together that it becomes a pain.
My install started off easy, then I saw the new TV could hook up to a home computer network (so you can use things like BBC iPlayer etc), so that meant running a powerlead for the TV, an Ethernet cable, HDMI cable and an Aerial lead in the wall, then when it all hits the Amp, it was going to get messy hence me putting a false wall up.
headcase said:
Sounds like a plan, as long as the TV isnt in the heat stream of the fire it will be fine. The firebox its self will have to be built by a Gas safe person, they wont be happy if they turn up to install the fire and discover its surrounded by MDF Or better still get rid of the fire completely and put your boxes in there!
This is what I did in the end. The wife couldn't decide on a fire she liked that didn't cost more than the house. Or better still get rid of the fire completely and put your boxes in there!So I blocked the fire place up and put the TV there.
Problem solved
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