Sockets behind TV - How to Flush Mount?

[rossyl]

Hi All

I am getting The Frame (probably not Pro).

The electric, LAN, and Aerial points are all directly behind where the TV would be mounted.
With a flush mount TV, and the One Connect Box - this does not work.

The wall is Dot Dab (I think) Plasterboard on top of brick.

Either side of the TV are kitchen units.

What do you think the best way would be to mount The Frame and the One Connect box? My thinking is that having the One Connect box accessible is a good idea.

How does the TV mount work, is it easy to get behind it?

Should I be thinking of cutting out a large part of plasterboard, hoping I've got enough distance before I hit brick wall, to mount the One Connect Box? Or, would the One Connect box being behind the TV be too inconvenient?

How hard would it be to either somehow move the sockets from where they are now, or run cables from where they are now to above the Kitchen Units?

Grateful for thoughts on best solutions.

Thanks

 

[flameport]

The electric, LAN, and Aerial points are all directly behind where the TV would be mounted.

All of those will need to be removed.

How does the TV mount work, is it easy to get behind it?

No, it's literally flat on the wall, zero access, and a right load of malarkey to even get it on the wall in the first place.
Alignment is critical, ultra flat 100% perfect wall is essential, anything less will be a total bust.

Should I be thinking of cutting out a large part of plasterboard,

Unless you are desperate to have that particular TV, consider a different one.
Otherwise consider paying £100s or more for professional installation by those that do the high end home cinema installs.

 

[Wayners]

Take one or a couple of the sockets off the wall and have a look behind.
You might have to cut another single box near the worktop then run the cable down behind plasterboard.
With any luck or maybe a bit of digging then filling you can get cable down.

Use corefix as TV bracket fixing.

When you take socket and back box off (hopefully a dry wall box) you can measure depth.
Maybe then you can decide it you can fix a one c box in wall. I think you probably will.

 

[morqthana]

I am getting The Frame

Make sure you read up on all the privacy and personal data violations, snooping and eavesdropping it will do if you don't put a lot of effort into turning off as much as you can when you set it up. Some of it is not easy/intuitive to find in the menu settings, and some things are harder to sort out after you do the initial setup.

 

[rossyl]

Thanks.

So is the best option to reroute all those sockets into the cabinet below?

If so, whats the easiest way to do that? I'll get a pro in, just want to make sure I'm asking th right questions and getting it done the right way?

 

[flameport]

So is the best option to reroute all those sockets into the cabinet below?

Yes. None of them are needed for the TV itself.
All of the connections are to the box supplied with it, and it's a single custom cable from that box to the TV.

If the cables to those sockets are above/below then they can be extended vertically into the cabinet below, with the new location in line with the concealed cables.
If to the left/right then there is a pile more work to do, as you can't leave cables in that location unless there is something connected to them.

having the One Connect box accessible is a good idea.

Not just a good idea - it's essential. If not accessible you won't be able to connect anything to it.
That box goes in the cabinet below, power, HDMI, aerial and whatever else connects to that.
Then it's a single cable from that box to the TV, ideally in a duct concealed in the wall which will mean installing that before anything else, with a suitable recessed box behind the TV in the appropriate location, and another in the cupboard below. Duct will need to be large enough to that the connector plug on the ends of the connector cable will pass through it easily.
Nothing can be forward of the wall surface, as the entire point of these things is that they are mounted completely flat to the wall using the supplied custom bracket with no space behind them.

 

[SUNRAY]

I have no first hand experience.
A colleague got a 75" Pro (I have no idea what the difference is) to replace the HiSense (I think ~55"). His main gripes were:
Not very even illumination.
The art looked like a TV picture whereas the HiSense looked like a canvas, that part I'll agree with as I'd been there several times and hadn't realised his Austrian mountain scene was a TV.
The complicated mounting arrangements

At work he was trying to describe how long it took to hang it in place, it sounded like several individual plates screwed to the wall and shims to go behind them to make them line up flat/level and some magnetic hooks. I have no idea other than his description.