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Heisman Winner [84593]
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Dude is here to mount the TV to the wall.
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Aug 4, 2025, 10:56 AM
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Doing the wire concealment and all. Sure I COULD do this on my own, but $150 is cheap piece of mind for if anything goes wrong having someone to blame.
Anyway, it is so difficult to just stay back here out of the way. I want to know just what is going on!
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Paw Warrior [4969]
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What time is your appointment with the guy to come in and
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Aug 4, 2025, 10:58 AM
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change your smoke detectors and light bulbs?
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Re: What time is your appointment with the guy to come in and
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Aug 4, 2025, 10:59 AM
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Heisman Winner [86230]
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Definitely not useful
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Aug 4, 2025, 11:15 AM
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when you're rolling fat blunts and smoking a bowl or three
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Heisman Winner [84593]
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I like to run the smoker inside on rainy days like this.
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Aug 4, 2025, 11:19 AM
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They would just make too much racket.
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Orange Phenom [14415]
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Bobby outsources it****
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Yeah, you should do that one***
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Aug 4, 2025, 10:59 AM
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Heisman Winner [84593]
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I've done enough of cutting into these walls.***
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Aug 4, 2025, 11:09 AM
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TigerNet Champion [113061]
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I mount my own TV's. It's very easy actually.
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Aug 4, 2025, 11:03 AM
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Now, if there is wire to be pulled, I'm out. I draw the line at pulling wires. But I also buy sound bars that are wireless, or wired close to the TV for this reason as well.
Depending on the TV, you will still need a buddy or someone to help you lift it, etc. If I lived alone, this might be an issue, but I'd probably just bribe a friend to come over with a few beers.
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Tiger Titan [51053]
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The hardest thing about mounting your own TV is getting over the inherent
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Aug 4, 2025, 11:23 AM
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distrust of the stud finder.
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Just get a $10 magnetic one and find the nails/screws. Electronic ones are junk.
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Aug 4, 2025, 11:46 AM
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TigerNet Champion [113061]
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Always have good luck with mine. Plus, you're screwing a screw in
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Aug 4, 2025, 11:55 AM
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and mounting a bracket before the TV is added, so you will know if it goes in a stud or misses.
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Tiger Titan [51053]
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You're hanging your mounting brackets with screws instead of lag bolts?
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Aug 4, 2025, 11:58 AM
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I'm fine with the margin of error for screws, but when you're setting lag bolts I'd prefer to be dead center and not either clip the side or miss altogether. I hate spackling.
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TigerNet Champion [113061]
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Again mine works. I mark it at the left, mark at the right, and
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Aug 4, 2025, 1:19 PM
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split the difference. Hung a 65" and a 75" TV, no issues.
And yes, it was a lag bolt, massive screw. Had to use the drill and an adapter from my socket wrench set. As much torque as those bolts had, I could swing from it.
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Re: Mine never has an issue, for some reason.
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Aug 4, 2025, 11:59 AM
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I've successfully mounted 3 TVs of various sizes and styles
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Aug 4, 2025, 11:04 AM
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and I can barely read.
WT F is this, BBI?
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You caint hide Youtube influencer money.***
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If it takes you 5 hours to hang a tv, save time and just hang
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Aug 4, 2025, 1:19 PM
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yerself next time.
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Heisman Winner [84593]
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I mean, it took a pro 2 hours.
Aug 4, 2025, 1:56 PM
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I'd have to spend like an hour measuring.
Cut the holes for wire concealment.
Cut a different hole for wire concealment because the first was wrong despite measuring so much.
Patch first hole.
So one and so forth.
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There comes a certain time in life where
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Aug 4, 2025, 11:14 AM
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being able and being willing are two completely different things.
There is a whole litany of tasks that I am able to do that I am no longer willing.
One is crawling under the house and replacing the dryer vent hose. Saw a van for a company that does that. I will be calling them as soon as I quit putting it off.
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TigerNet Grandmaster [198447]
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Replacing toilets are off my list also
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Aug 4, 2025, 12:25 PM
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I will do a little work on them but if they are in need of replacement, no thanks.
Younger me took our toilet from upstairs to outside in the cold rain and trying to get the GI Joe out of it by throwing it on the ground over and over. Sucker was either gonna break or release GI Joe. He finally came out. LOL
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Re: Replacing toilets are off my list also
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Aug 4, 2025, 12:49 PM
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I mean, I can paint all of the trim in my house. Not that hard. But, I'm probably going to hire someone to do it, just because of the pain in the a ss factor. $150 to mount a TV doesn't sound too bad to just not have to deal with it.
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TigerNet Grandmaster [198447]
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I had a plumber put this on our main water intake
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Aug 4, 2025, 12:55 PM
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I bought the unit he charged me $150 - I told him that was not enough as he had to reroute our pipes of make room for it. Took him 1 1/2 hours.
Friend of mine, but I want to be charged regular rates for work.
I hated it when people wanted me to do their tax work and get a friend discount. No thanks.
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We got the Phyn version of that.
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Aug 4, 2025, 1:20 PM
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The peace of mind it offers after we had a leak is worth every penny.
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Heisman Winner [84593]
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He did say that if I'd somehow magically known about him without
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buying through CostCo then having it arranged with Angi behind the scenes it would have only been $100. Not not have to do any screening myself was worth the $50.
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Re: Dude is here to mount the TV to the wall.
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Heisman Winner [84593]
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As it turns out, this TV is an absolute beast 72.8 pounds
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Aug 4, 2025, 12:21 PM
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I'd have never gotten that thing mounted on my own. Sharkgirl likely could not have gotten the top bracket high enough to latch on.
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GOODLORD is that a 1999 model? or 99 inches?***
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Aug 4, 2025, 12:26 PM
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Sweet.***
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This is so disappointing***
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If the TV is going on a wall...
Aug 4, 2025, 1:15 PM
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That has insulation in it (as in one of your main housing frame walls), that $150 is worth every penny. I can speak from having to do that bull #### twice. And #### that fish tape method.
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Heisman Winner [84593]
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Luckily this is an interior wall so he didn't have that struggle.
Aug 4, 2025, 1:58 PM
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He was glad of that. Also, there was somebody else to clean up the mess.
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Running the shop vac for 17 seconds is so awful!
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Aug 4, 2025, 2:03 PM
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Looks like I get to install a new one in the next couple days. My 2014 tv is sketchin out.
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Heisman Winner [84593]
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Will you have to get a new mount or just make sure the TV
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Aug 4, 2025, 2:17 PM
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fits what you've already got?
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I'm hoping the existing mount works
Aug 4, 2025, 2:22 PM
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But my luck says no
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Heisman Winner [84593]
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I feel like it should, unless you go wild and buy a much bigger one
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Aug 4, 2025, 2:29 PM
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like I did.
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50 --> 65***
Aug 4, 2025, 2:31 PM
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Heisman Winner [84593]
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Oh come on, go ahead and get the 75***
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [104989]
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You disrespect your desire to progress in your hobby craft.
Aug 4, 2025, 2:44 PM
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A noble trooper would do it over and over until he got it right. Sometimes learning how not to do things remains long after watching someone else do it.
The only person to touch my car renovation is Tigerfur who helped me fish a needed wiring section through the firewall for the conversion from gas engine to diesel, set the engine/transmission into the body and remove/replace the hood after body work.
Wonder why I've been on this the better part of a decade. Do over/undo and over/undo and over...
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Heisman Winner [84593]
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See, being outside and cutting something wrong then having to start over
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is totally fine. My hobby craft has nothing to do with trying to do things on the inside of my house that can cause damage when done wrong. Especially with the introduction of that in wall kit, we aren't talking a few small holes that can be easily patched. Too big for the mesh patches that the bathroom needed too. We are talking find some discarded drywall or buying a sheet to fix. None of that is worth my time when my living room is already put back in place.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [104989]
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Don't hand me that. I've seen your work.
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It's not perfect but it has to meet your level of satisfaction before you give up on it. That's exactly how I do everything. Perfect or not it satisfies me.
The fact that you show videos and show examples of mistakes is a greater learning tool for me and most because learning how not to do and what not to do helps the viewers to avoid typical rookie mistakes.
I think you are dismissing your desire to do well as something less than its actual value. I've worked 100's of men in construction and over a 40 year period. One of the very most important characteristics was 'Does he do his best at his work?'
I'd have hired you at above average wage and made a fortune from your labor (sooner than later) because you care. That's impressive to me, a big deal. I've had dozens of employees who were masters at their crafts but their work was shoddy because they didn't care.
One can learn to do anything watching a youtube video if they have your attitude. I want to encourage you to keep on until you've satisfied yourself that you can't do better. I suspect your work will be as close to perfect as anyone's.
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