Now we have all seen the amazing new ranges of LED TVs both with 2D and 3D picture capability,  I think it is fair to say that we’re suitably impressed both with the amazing picture quality and the almost unreal slimness of the screen.   This stunning combination is a real winner with consumers but having spent fortunes on the TV, how do you get in mounted on the wall so it still looks fantastic?

LED TV Brackets

There are lots of TV brackets on the market but in our opinion the ordinary TV bracket fails to do justice to the ultra slim design, often setting your beautiful new LED TV 50 or 60 or even 100mm or more off the wall!

Clearly to get the best look on the wall you need a TV bracket that’s not only easy to install and robust (after all LED TVs are expensive!) but one where you can genuinely mount it super close to the wall so it gives that “hanging picture” look.

The answer was to develop the Worlds slimmest low profile LED TV bracket.  Our model ITB344 sets the TV just 9mm off the wall – closer to the wall than any other bracket we know about and comes complete with everything to fit the TV to the bracket and fit the LED TV bracket to the wall.  This ultra close 9mm off the wall fitting requires your LED TV to use cables and leads accessed from the sides or bottom of the screen and all Samsung LED TVs and recent Sharp LED TVs have this facility as do many from Sony, LG and many others too.

So first choice for the slimmest mount possible is 9mm with the ITB344, but should 9mm be too close there is still some very good options such as the ITB400 bracket that sets the TV just 20mm off the wall and is designed to hold all LED TVs right up to 55”.  This bracket is supplied with all fittings and fixings as well as additional spacers so you can optimise the gap between the TV and the wall.

Both these low profile LED TV brackets are easy to fit, are weight rated many, many kilos in advance of the weight of your TV, are fully guaranteed to fit and come complete with a lifetime warranty – perfect and the perfect choice for your LED TV too!

Flat, slim and flush mount TV Wall brackets

These types of TV brackets are often chosen by people where it is important to mount the TV as close as possible to the wall or as they tend to be the cheapest option, where people are working to a tight budget. Flush mount tv brackets are also often of interest to people with LED TV’s. This is because LED TV’s are extremely thin and give a very modern slimline look like that of a picture mounted on a wall, to further enhance this look a flush mount tv bracket will make an ideal LED TV bracket.

When faced with choosing, how can you be sure you have taken the right things into account and how do know it will fit your TV?

Flush mount TV Bracket

Let’s first look at the key requirement, selecting one to fit the TV.  Firstly, turn your TV around and find the 4 fixings holes in the back of the flat screen; to fit a wall mounting bracket these must be in a square or more commonly a rectangle shape.

Measure the distances apart in millimetres and ensure your bracket is bigger than these sizes for both width and height.

If your TV is supplied with its VESA mounting sizes this just means the manufacturer has done the measuring for you and therefore you again need to check your VESA size is smaller than the maximum size the bracket can accommodate.

Once you are sure the bracket will correctly fit, next check the weight of your TV.   TVs are expensive and to be safe we always recommend the bracket should be certified to hold a minimum of a third more.  At www.intecbrackets.co.uk all our brackets are detailed for exact specifications and most are certified to an impressive 75Kgs giving you an even bigger margin of safety.

Lastly check the bracket is suitable to fit to your wall.  If you have stud or partition walls your TV wall bracket must be long enough to cover and safely screw into two of the upright wooden studs behind the plasterboard.  On brackets for smaller size TVs this is sometimes not possible and you will need to either buy a bracket with a wider wall back plate or fit a crossmember between the studs.

There’s just one final piece of advice and that is to check there will enough room behind your TV to get the cables into the TV.  Flat or flush TV brackets mount the TV very close to the wall and therefore there is only a small space for the inputs and wiring to the screen.

Happy hunting.

Remember those days some 7 years ago or so when we started to see the first plasma flat screen TVs, didn’t they look fantastically cool fitted to the wall securely on a close fitting TV bracket so that they look like they were just glued on!  Each one cost many thousands and the experts all said the screens would only last 5 years!

Well it didn’t take that long for prices to tumble, quickly followed by smaller LCD screens being invented and a lot of these were the first ones where we had experience of wall fitting – whether for PC screens or bedrooms the TV wall bracket very soon started to become more common place.

Shortly thereafter, people wanted the screen angle to be adjustable and the tilting TV bracket was introduced and with the explosion of new TVs it logically was soon followed by tilting and swivelling TV brackets that allowed you to bring the TV right out into the room and yet push away flat when not in use, and that’s before we get onto TV brackets to mount your TV on the ceiling or popping up at the end of the bed.

Today it doesn’t seem odd to want to mount your new TV onto a wall – well why would it? – it gets it out of the way, you save space, it gives more flexibility and saves money as TV brackets are much cheaper than those specialist TV cabinets and stands….. and of course it just looks so good on the wall.

Don’t however think TV brackets are just for the main viewing room, these days we have flat screens just about everywhere – the bedroom, the kids bedrooms, study, kitchen, dining room and we’ve even heard of TV brackets being used to fit screens in the garage and even in Dad’s secret sanctuary – the shed!

To some this might seem an unnecessary subject to write about but to me I’ve always been interested in how things are made, where they’re made and all the various bits of useless information about the items in our lives we just take for granted.

The humble TV bracket caught my attention the other day for no particular reason other than we had just bought one – a very nice tilt, swivel TV bracket with an extendable arm in a black finish to match the TV my father had treated us too on the 20th anniversary of our wedding.

The bracket was now sitting proudly on the wall boldly holding the not inconsiderable weight of the TV as if it was a job beneath its purpose, but then again I expect if you’re making these things they have to be able to hold many times the weight of the TV otherwise you’d be sued for countless broken sets.

My background had been in industry where we made parts for industrial motors and generators so I was well versed with the intricacies of manufacturing.  Clearly the TV bracket had been made up of several smaller parts – clever in design but really very simple.

The Chinese have long since mastered the ability to break jobs down into their component parts and here was another classic example.  The core of the TV bracket was as expected steel – cold rolled steel 2mm thick and no doubt the main reason why the TV bracket weighed so much.  Each of the major parts had either been pressure stamped out to shape and with the cut out parts punched through or had been pressure rolled and then welded such as the extendable arm.  This way by stamping, rolling, welding they had built up the whole collection.  Add in some simple swivel devices using a bolt through a drilled hole controlled by the tension in the bolt nut and there it is – a series of very basic items cleverly designed so that once assembled there is a sophisticated multi action bracket.

Everything had I’d of imagined been acid cleaned after base fabrication and then powder coated to give an attractive yet robust finish.  Assembled by semi skilled hands following a meticulous process, boxed up with instructions and a very full set of fittings and shipped to the UK – job done.

As I looked at the TV on the wall and the study TV bracket again I appreciated where it had come from, the people who had operated the presses and the welders – it  served to remind me again just how ingenious us humans are.