Shelved Wall Mounts

TV wall mounts with shelves: practical, affordable and do-it-yourself project that most weekend-warriors can perform! Above all because they give you the flexibility to put your television set in any room of your house and allow for maximum “people positioning” within a specific area, especially if you have limited space to begin with! Consider how constricted your comfort would be if your TV was anchored to a table or the floor. And you as the viewer may be too close or not close enough! Wall mounts also allow for superior viewing angle adjustment and tilt and additionally allow you the mobility to move where you want as well.

Worth Its Weight

TV wall mounts offer a variety of advantages, one of which involves weight support. A TV wall mount is literally worth its weight because the majority of wall mounts and shelves can easily support the weight of most current model flat-screen televisions and even older vacuum models such as CRT's. So whether you're a fan of flat-screen/HD technology, or if you're trying to squeeze another couple of years out of that old vacuum tube-set of yours, a TV wall mount with shelves should suit your needs just fine. Remember, you have to take into consideration is how big the TV that you want to mount is and how much weight you are going to put on the shelves, so you should always double check the mounting specifications that come with your wall mount to see what the maximum allowable weight is.

Easy to Assemble

TV wall mounts with shelves are generally easy to assemble and to mount. We're not talking rocket science here, so when you take the wall mount and shelves out of its box; take a minute to spread everything out: keep the screws together, the mount, the brackets, etc. Now get your drill and drill bits and lay them out as well.

Now look at the directions. Whether your TV wall was manufactured in America or some third world country is not important. Regardless of where, the directions are dumbed-down so anyone can understand them.

If you cross-check all the components in advance with what is included on the "contents" page of your TV wall mount and shelves, you'll save time and aggravation. After everything is laid out and accounted for leave it alone! Now you only need to decide where you're actually going to mount this thing.

A Few Words About Wiring

So what exactly are we talking about here: a television, a power cord and a plug? Or is the TV in question just a conduit for a surround sound system that involves even more wires, plugs and cables to include a stereo receiver as well. Again, this is "pre-installation planning. The wall mount and shelves can be overshadowed by the wire-traffic that supports your TV and that may underscore the need for additional plugs and cable troughs or whatever.

Your secondary decision then is: do you do the wiring yourself or do you hire an electrician? That decision may well be influenced by the long-term location of your television. Are you going to leave it where it is or move it again later? Before we risk segueing into a discussion about home redecorating, consider the location of existing plugs in your house and whether their current location is suitable.

Another word or two regarding wiring. Ensure your TV wall mounts with shelves are VESA certified. VESA is the acronym for "Video Electronics Standards Association" and establishes industry wide compliance standards for electronics. If your TV is labelled as "VESA mounting compliant" then you are one step ahead of the pack because your TV and wall mount components will fit together.

Installation: It's All About the Wall

Hopefully you're seeing how this all fits together: instructions, components, tools. You can't do one without the other. Whether you have a flashy new flat-screen television or an older tube model, both televisions have a few things in common when it comes to a wall-mount: both can still rip out of the wall if not secured properly. Attaching TV wall mounts with shelves is very similar to putting together a child's bicycle: invariably you wind up with a lot of extra parts due to lack of planning. Why set yourself up for failure?

The wall in question needs to have a sturdy foundation behind it. Double check to make sure it is really a wall and not a disguised panel of particle board that isn't even wide enough to support a screw. For all its simplicity, the wall mount may be supporting a television that weighs a hundred pounds or more. Take an extra minute to ensure that the room is structurally sound enough to suit your needs. You'll need to pre-drill the holes no matter what type of walls you have and while mounting your TV you should pay particular attention to the installation instructions that come with your wall-mounted shelves.

Your TV wall mount should come with everything you need. So use all the components given to you. The size of the bolts, nuts, etc is for a reason. Don’t substitute components. The entire procedure for setting up TV wall mounts with shelves is something you want to get right the first time to avoid a potentially hazardous situation where a TV has fallen off its mount and onto a parent or child or worse yet, the television rips the plaster off a wall and then you’ve got an even bigger issue to deal with involving repairs!

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Looking at the Big Picture

With a little effort and common sense, your viewing pleasure will be enhanced ten-fold by a TV wall mount. Excluding the time you spend to decide where you want to install your mount and shelves, from start to finish the entire process shouldn’t take more than a few hours at the most.