How much does TV mounting cost in Charlotte, NC?
TV mounting is a flat rate set by screen size: up to 60 inches is $99, 61 to 75 inches is $149, 76 to 85 inches is $199, and 86 inches and up is custom quoted, quoted per job with a two-person minimum because a panel that size cannot be handled safely by one person. There is no minimum charge on flat-rate work and no weekend minimum. Sunday work adds 15 percent to the flat rate.
Those tier prices assume you already have the bracket. If you do not, we can supply and install one: a flat mount is $40 and a full-motion mount is $65, added to the tier price. Mounting more than one TV on the same visit takes 25 percent off each additional TV's tier price. A second TV in the 61 to 75 inch tier is $112 instead of $149. That discount applies to the mount labor only and never to add-ons, and only one promotion runs per booking, so it is the multi-TV discount or a promo code, not both.
Add-ons are priced separately and are never discounted: stairs are +$25 per flight above the first, a heavy or awkward item starts at +$40, and same-day or emergency scheduling is +$40. Cash, check and Zelle carry no fee. Cards carry a 3.5 percent processing fee.
What if the TV has to travel?
If a set has to leave the wall and go somewhere — you are moving, putting it in storage, or driving it yourself — we carry protective transport boxes sized to the panel. Using one is $25 per TV regardless of size, which keeps the quote simple. It is a per-TV fee rather than a per-box fee, so three TVs boxed is $75 even if the same box gets reused one set at a time.
If the box comes back to the truck before we leave, $25 is the whole cost. If the box goes with you — because the TV is staying boxed in storage, or riding in your own vehicle — you pay the buy price up front and we refund the difference if it comes back within seven days in reusable condition. A box that comes back crushed or torn simply converts to a sale at the same buy price, so there is nothing to argue about in a driveway.
- Protective transport box, per TV — box returns with us: $25
- Keep the box — under 40″: $35 · 32–70″: $45 · 55–86″: $55
- Never discounted — no multi-TV discount and no promo codes, same as every other add-on
- Available alongside a booked service; we do not rent boxes on their own
- Up to 60 inches: $99
- 61 to 75 inches: $149
- 76 to 85 inches: $199
- 86 inches and up: a custom quote, quoted, two-person minimum
- Over a fireplace, stone or brick: from $199
- Additional TV same visit: 25 percent off that TV's tier price
What is actually involved in mounting an 85-inch TV?
An 85-inch panel is the job where the difference between a flat rate and a real plan shows up, so here is a recent one end to end. A customer bought an 85-inch set that had to come off the wall at their old place in Ballantyne, ride across town, and go up over a stone fireplace at the new house. Mount labor on an 85-inch TV is the 76 to 85 inch tier at $199, the transport box was $25, and the over-fireplace stone install was quoted from $199 because masonry is a different job from drywall. Everything was priced before the truck moved.
Two people are on every lift above 65 inches, without exception. That is not an upsell — a panel that size flexes under its own weight if it is carried by one person at the corners, and the flex is what cracks a screen rather than the drop everyone worries about. 86 inches and up is a custom quote with a two-person minimum built into it for the same reason.
The handling itself is the part nobody sees. A panel travels upright on its long edge and never flat, because laying a large screen face-up puts the whole weight of the glass on its own center of area. The stand and the mount plate come off and get bagged with their hardware so nothing is loose in the vehicle, and straps go around the frame rather than across the face. That sequence is the same on a fifteen-minute drive as it is on a cross-town move.
On the wall, a large panel over a fireplace needs its bracket into masonry rather than into studs, which means masonry anchors and a different lift. Cord routing on stone is usually the surface raceway at $39 rather than an in-wall cut-in, because cutting into stone is not the same conversation as cutting into drywall. If the run can go in-wall, that is from $89.
- Mount labor, 76 to 85 inches: $199
- Mount labor, 86 inches and up: custom quote, two-person minimum
- Over fireplace, stone or brick: from $199
- Protective transport box, per TV: $25 — never discounted
- Cord concealment: $39 stick-on raceway, from $89 in-wall
- Two people on every lift above 65 inches
Why does mounting a TV over a fireplace cost more?
Over-fireplace, stone and brick installs start at $199 because almost nothing about the job matches a standard drywall mount. The bracket does not land on wood framing. It lands on masonry, which means drilling with a hammer drill and setting sleeve or wedge anchors into solid material, or into the mortar joint depending on what the face is made of. Carbide bits wear out on hard stone, dust control matters in a finished great room, and a bad hole in stone cannot be patched invisibly the way a bad hole in drywall can, so layout has to be right the first time.
Working height is the second reason. A fireplace mount puts the bracket at chest height or above on a ladder, over a hearth that is often raised and made of the same stone, so there is no clean place to set a ladder foot. Handing an 80 pound panel up to that height is a two-person move whether the tier says so or not.
Heat is the third. A wood-burning firebox pushes heat straight up the face of the chimney breast, and the strip of wall right above the mantel is the hottest part of the room. We keep the panel above the mantel shelf line where the shelf breaks the heat plume, and we do not run power or signal cable through a chase that sits against a masonry flue. Gas inserts are gentler than wood, but the same rule applies.
The last reason is viewing angle. A TV over a fireplace usually ends up 10 to 20 inches higher than a comfortable seated eye line, which is why we default to a tilting or pull-down bracket on those installs rather than a fixed flat plate. If you want the panel to come down to eye level, that is a pull-down bracket, which you would supply, and we will tell you honestly before we drill whether the wall and the mantel depth will let it work.
Can you mount a TV on metal studs, concrete, or plaster walls?
Yes to all three, and the wall type changes the hardware, not the tier price, so a 65 inch TV is still $149 whether it lands on wood, steel or concrete. What changes is the fastener and, sometimes, the bracket we recommend.
Wood studs are the easy case. Two 5/16 inch lag bolts per stud, biting deep into solid framing, and the wall carries far more than the TV weighs. Metal studs are the hard case. A steel stud in a residential wall is thin gauge and hollow, so a lag has nothing to grip. The correct fix is toggle-style anchors rated for hollow steel, and even then the load has to be near the stud face and static. This is why we tell people with steel studs to use a flat or low-profile tilting mount rather than a full-motion arm. A full-motion mount puts the TV a foot or more off the wall on a lever, and that leverage multiplies the pull-out force on the anchors every time somebody swings the screen. On wood that is fine. On thin steel it is how mounts come off walls. We will say so on site rather than install something that will not hold.
Concrete, block and poured shear walls take masonry sleeve anchors and a hammer drill. They are the strongest substrate of the group once the anchors are set, but the drilling is slow and the layout is permanent. Plaster over wood lath is its own problem: the plaster is brittle and crumbles at the drill point, the lath is soft, and the actual studs sit behind an inch of plaster and lath so fasteners need extra length. On plaster we drill pilot holes carefully, land on real framing, and never rely on the plaster itself to carry weight.
- Wood studs: lag bolts into framing, any mount style including full-motion
- Metal studs: hollow-steel toggle anchors, flat or tilting mount recommended
- Concrete or block: hammer drill and masonry sleeve anchors
- Plaster over lath: longer fasteners, careful pilot holes, framing carries the load
- Stacked stone or brick: masonry anchors set in stone or mortar joint, from $199
How do you hide the cords, and what does that cost?
Two options. Stick-on cord concealment is $39 and in-wall cord concealment starts at $89. Neither is discounted under the multi-TV promotion.
The stick-on version is a paintable surface raceway that adheres to the wall and covers the HDMI and power cords in one channel from the TV down to the console. Nothing is cut, nothing is opened, and it comes off without leaving a hole. That makes it the right answer for renters, for anyone in an apartment or townhome where the lease forbids cutting drywall, and for walls we should not open anyway, such as exterior walls with insulation or masonry.
In-wall concealment is the cleaner look and the more involved job. We cut two openings, drop the signal cables through the stud bay, and use a code-compliant power relocation kit so that the power side terminates in a receptacle rather than a standard extension cord run inside the wall. Ordinary power cords are not rated to be buried in a wall cavity, and the low-voltage cable that goes in the bay should be in-wall rated. The cut-in method starts at $89 and goes up when the wall has fire blocking, insulation, a masonry chase or an unusual drop length. On a stone or brick fireplace face, in-wall concealment behind the stone is usually not possible at all, and the honest answer there is a raceway painted to match the stone or a channel run inside the mantel.
What does a Charlotte house tell you about the TV mounting job?
Most Charlotte-area jobs fall into three buckets, and the neighborhood usually tells us which one before we arrive. Newer south Charlotte, Ballantyne, Waxhaw and Fort Mill builds tend to have a stacked-stone great-room fireplace as the obvious TV wall, so those jobs start at $199 and get a tilting bracket by default. The stone veneer over those chimney breasts varies in thickness, and where the anchor lands, stone face or mortar joint, decides the hardware.
Uptown, South End and the newer mid-rise and high-rise buildings are the second bucket. Those walls are concrete, block, or light-gauge steel studs, sometimes all three in one unit. Steel studs there are the reason we steer people toward flat mounts. They are also the reason we ask about building rules and elevator reservations before booking, because a Sunday appointment in a tower adds the 15 percent Sunday rate on top of a job that may need a loading-dock window.
Older bungalows and cottages in Dilworth, Plaza Midwood, Elizabeth and NoDa are the third. Those are plaster over wood lath, framing that is not on a modern 16 inch layout, and stud finders that read the lath and lie to you. On those walls we probe, verify, and drill deliberately. It takes longer than a 2019 build in Steele Creek and it is the same tier price.
What should I have ready before the TV mounting appointment?
Five things, and having them ready is usually the difference between a 45 minute job and a two hour one. Have the TV out of the box, the bracket on hand if you are supplying it, the wall picked, the furniture moved back from the wall, and the device cables you actually want connected sitting in the room.
It also helps to know two things before we start drilling. First, what is behind the wall. If a plumber or electrician has been in that wall, or there is a bathroom, a kitchen or a panel on the other side, say so. Second, where you want the center of the screen. We will set height based on your seated eye line, but if there is a mantel, a picture ledge or an outlet that constrains it, we would rather hear it before the first hole than after.
If the TV is not unboxed we can unbox it, and if the bracket is wrong for the wall we will tell you before installing rather than after. Installation failures on our workmanship are fixed free. That covers our work, not third-party materials or normal wear.
- TV unboxed, or tell us and we will unbox it
- Bracket on hand, or add $40 flat or $65 full-motion and we supply it
- Wall chosen, and furniture pulled clear of it
- HDMI cables, soundbar and streaming devices in the room
- Anything you know about plumbing, wiring or previous repairs in that wall