How Much Does It Cost To Fit a Wall-Hung TV?



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Cost to Fit a Wall-Hung TV




Job
Description
Labour
1If the supply cables are there, and the wall is solid, this will be half a day for one man, fitting the bracket, connecting the TV and plastering up to finish. inc  the bracket (£25)
£225
2For a “sparks” to locate a power supply cable, (probably under the floor), connect up, chase out for and route the new cable to a new socket adjacent to the TV wall point. 1 man 1 day. 
£240
3For an aerial fitter to bring a cable through the window frame / wall, chase out for and route the new cable to a new aerial socket adjacent to the TV wall point. 1 man 1 day.
£240

“Labour” at £175 a day (tradesman) £100 (labourer), includes incidental fixings etc. and tipping charges. “Materials” if mentioned, are larger things (a boiler) and stuff only you can choose (tiles etc).  Also VAT must be added all round.

Information Sheet on fixing a TV on a Wall


The great advantage of wall-mounting a flat panel TV, is that it frees up the corner that was occupied by your gigantic old set, allowing you to take that horrid old wood effect TV cabinet into the garden and smash it to pieces. You can tell your wife that you thought a new TV on the wall would keep the channel buttons up and out of the way of your toddler’s dirty little fingers. She’ll buy into that.

Don’t worry, that corner won’t be empty for long. A trip to “Erking Great Sofas are Us” will get you a leather monstrosity the size of a rowing boat to squeeze in there.

Well we’ve all seen those 200 inch LCD TVs that take up the entire wall and cost more than most of us make in a year. Happily, with the cost of flat panel TV’s plummeting, some of us are now in a position to buy a suitably discreet 97” HD version. We can better see the disappointed faces on Antiques Roadshow, when their heirloom is worth about a tenner. It would have been fifty grand if the dog hadn’t chewed it to bits the week before.

This new electric toy costs a bit though and no husband can be trusted to fit that very complicated looking wall mounting bracket, with his daft selection of screwdrivers and screws and that Christmas Black & Decker drill that’s got all the power of an electric tooth brush.

So what do you do? That’s right – get a man in!

Now, a husband shouldn’t be completely cut out of the process. There will be the bracket to buy, of course. The price of these varies enormously, depending on the size and what you want it to do. Will it just be something to fix the TV to the wall, or will it be required to swivel? They start at about £25. He could also get scart, hdmi, composite and any others cables he can get his hands on. Then he can fit them before the builder arrives. You could get an AV specialist in, but you’ll pay for it.

Getting the right cables and a power source to the right place may cost far more than hanging the bracket.


As long as you have the right cables in the right holes, a builder will fix your bracket to the wall, where you want it, he will chase out for the cables, hang the TV and bond and plaster the wall, leaving the old man to whack a few licks of Farrow and Ball over the plaster once it is dry.

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