TV Bracket - options

[Ham_and_Jam]

I’ve bought a house and towards the end of a basic refurb and now looking at the TV on the wall.

The living room is brick walls and ive chased the power socket, RF co-ax and HDMI to where the TV will be positioned.

What the best options for a TV bracket that will sit the TV fairly flush but accommodate a UK 3 pin plug behind it?

Everything seems to be 20mm flush fit which wont accommodate a plug or then into tilting brackets which seem to be quite bulky and not what I need.

Am I missing something straight forward or some cool solution?

[Geertsen]

I’d personally get a Unicol PZX3 or PZX1.

I’ve used the same PZX1 for the last 20 years and it has been flawless with every TV I’ve had and is rock solid.

Can be bought online at the Unicol website.

[clockworks]

I much prefer using the pull out type brackets over the fixed hook&rail type.

With the pull out type, you can mount the TV, swing it out from the wall, plug everything in, then push it back.
With the fixed type, you've got to plug everything in while holding the TV, then hook it into place. Tricky with a big telly.

[PhilboSE]

There exist recessed plug sockets for exactly this purpose - the 3 pin plug sits below the level of the wall so the screen can be mounted close to the wall. They tend to be pretty pricey though for what they are, and need a much deeper area chased out for the box.

I d recommend you leave ability to pull through a new tv cable down the line in case the HDMI spec changes again, or a new standard comes in. If that s not practical then make sure you put in an hdmi V2.2 compliant cable.

This sort of thing

[48k]

clockworks said:

I much prefer using the pull out type brackets over the fixed hook&rail type.

With the pull out type, you can mount the TV, swing it out from the wall, plug everything in, then push it back.
With the fixed type, you've got to plug everything in while holding the TV, then hook it into place. Tricky with a big telly.

I just hook the telly on to the top of the rail, plug the plugs in then clip the telly in to the bottom of the rail.

Ham_and_Jam said:

I ve bought a house and towards the end of a basic refurb and now looking at the TV on the wall.

The living room is brick walls and ive chased the power socket, RF co-ax and HDMI to where the TV will be positioned.

What the best options for a TV bracket that will sit the TV fairly flush but accommodate a UK 3 pin plug behind it?

Everything seems to be 20mm flush fit which wont accommodate a plug or then into tilting brackets which seem to be quite bulky and not what I need.

Am I missing something straight forward or some cool solution?

Chase power in to the wall and have the 3 pin plug or switched fused spur at the bottom. Then you don't need a socket behind the TV.

Also don't forget to pull a network cable through.

Edited by 48k on Monday 21st September 08:00

[megaphone]

There is usually a bigger space behind the top of the TV, so position the sockets so they are just below the top of the TV. Don't put them exactly where the bracket will go.

If that doesn't work for you, you can use a switched fuse spur, cut the plug off the TV and hard wire it.

[Ham_and_Jam]

megaphone said:

There is usually a bigger space behind the top of the TV, so position the sockets so they are just below the top of the TV. Don't put them exactly where the bracket will go.

If that doesn't work for you, you can use a switched fuse spur, cut the plug off the TV and hard wire it.

Just bought a new TV. It’s pretty similar top to bottom.

However a fused spur is probably the answer. A recessed socket is a good shout aswell, but at this late stage I’ll probably just hardwire into a fused spur.

[Ham_and_Jam]

Geertsen said:

I d personally get a Unicol PZX3 or PZX1.

I ve used the same PZX1 for the last 20 years and it has been flawless with every TV I ve had and is rock solid.

Can be bought online at the Unicol website.

Will have a look properly later. Thanks.

[Ham_and_Jam]

clockworks said:

I much prefer using the pull out type brackets over the fixed hook&rail type.

With the pull out type, you can mount the TV, swing it out from the wall, plug everything in, then push it back.
With the fixed type, you've got to plug everything in while holding the TV, then hook it into place. Tricky with a big telly.

I have looked at the Sanus pull out. Looks a good mount, but I’m not sure Id ever use the functionality other than for initial mounting. A bit overkill for my needs.

[Silverbullet767]

As others have mentioned a switched fused spur with a cable outlet will do, I've used one in the past for this very application.



If your power cable to the TV is detachable then happy days, cut the plug off and wire it to the spur outlet, take the fuse from the plug and place in the fused spurs fuse holder. If your TV cable isn't detachable then use something such as this (a 2M one would be better than this short thing, but you get the idea)



Obviously wire it correctly so the live ends are not exposed, male end in place of TV plug, female end out of the spur.

Edited by Silverbullet767 on Monday 21st September 09:46

[Ham_and_Jam]

Silverbullet767 said:

As others have mentioned a switched fused spur with a cable outlet will do, I've used one in the past for this very application.



If your power cable to the TV is detachable then happy days, cut the plug off and wire it to the spur outlet, take the fuse from the plug and place in the fused spurs fuse holder. If your TV cable isn't detachable then use something such as this (a 2M one would be better than this short thing, but you get the idea)



Obviously wire it correctly so the live ends are not exposed, male end in place of TV plug, female end out of the spur.

Edited by Silverbullet767 on Monday 21st September 09:46

Interesting, not seen one with a flex outlet. That should do the job nicely ?

Edited by Ham_and_Jam on Monday 21st September 16:35

[Silverbullet767]

Ham_and_Jam said:

Interesting, not seen one with a flex outlet. That should do the job nicely ?

Edited by Ham_and_Jam on Monday 21st September 16:35

Works for me, the only thing you need to worry about is if the power cable to your TV is detachable or not, you don't want to fit it without being able to quickly disconnect it, hence the 2nd picture.

[mikey_b]

Ham_and_Jam said:

Interesting, not seen one with a flex outlet. That should do the job nicely ?

Edited by Ham_and_Jam on Monday 21st September 16:35

£5.70 from Toolstation.
https://www.toolstation.com/click-mode-13a-fused-s...

There's also an unfused version for £3.99, too.

[Silverbullet767]

mikey_b said:

£5.70 from Toolstation.
https://www.toolstation.com/click-mode-13a-fused-s...

There's also an unfused version for £3.99, too.

Use a fused one and replace the fuse from the cut off plug in place of the 13A fuse though!

[Blib]

Don't forget to place the TV & bracket as high up the wall as possible.

Just like all of the other lunatics.