I found the best way to hang the LG C5 OLED TV – I’ll never use bolts and studs again
The purchase of one of the best televisions is mostly people in half the equation. The second half is where to put or suspend it, and for me, it turned out to be particularly difficult.
It started even before buying my Dream TV, a 65 -inch LG C5 OLED (the EVO AI model) for $ 1,699 at Costco, which adds a few years of warranty support. You can, obviously, buy a 4K TV for much less, but they will be much larger and heavier business, and I will explain later why they would not work for me.
I chose the LG C5 not only for what we called in our review “Vibrant color and strong contrast” and “superb details” but for its light weight: only 36.6 lb.
My first 65 inch 4K was the TCL 6 series, a budgetary Roku TV which, although generally decent, weighed closer to sixty pounds.
A bad wall
Let me back up for a second and explain that replacing this television was part of our renovation project at home. We replaced the front door and redone each surface. We also replace furniture, including our television stand. What I really wanted to do was place a new television on the wall, but there is a problem with the wall. Stay with me for another digression.
My house is almost 100 years old, and although we have systematically improved almost all spaces, there are still vestiges of the original construction, including a central wall which almost crosses the entire house. This wall is unique and not in the right direction. Without making it an episode of This old houseLet me explain the construction of basic houses:
You put wall studs, also known as 2×4, every 16 inches. They are placed with the short side facing the outside for a maximum wall and a support resistance. However, when they built my house in 1928, there were no construction codes, so someone placed all these central wall nails with the wide side against the outside. It is very hard wood, so the wall is still quite strong, but the central wall is much narrower than it should be: 3 inches wide and therefore unable to support a standard wall mounting support. I have installed a few in my house, and they usually require a ratchet of a 4-inch bolt in a stallion.
Now, if you can visualize my central wall (see above), you see the problem: this bolt would pass through the side of 2 inches of my studs and strike on the other side. Not acceptable or safe.
What if, I was wondering, I could install a new television without using the studs? It came to my mind that modern Oled televisions are much thinner and lighter than the older (and often cheaper) models. What if I could hang a 65 -inch TV plus like a photo?
I started looking for TV mounting systems without a stud and I found it exactly one, available at Home Depot, called Hang Smart ($ 49 / £ 52.24).
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Suspended
There were a lot of things I liked in this system: it could support up to 100 inches of televisions weighing up to 150 pounds. Now, in no case did I plan to hang a 150 lb TV that wall. Hang Smart also promised to have only three steps: attach hooks to the back of your television, attach the patented wall climb and hang the TV. It was so simple.
Now, I just needed to find a large and light TV so that I feel confident to hang it on my wall like a Gogh digital van, that’s how I settled on the LG C5.
In truth, I initially planned to buy an LG C4 OLED, but one of the best televisions on the market is also a bestseller: he was out of stock at Costco. The C5 is not a major upgrade, but it improves brightness and color – and has an improved AI A9 chip.
The LG C5 corresponds to the invoice of lightness and finesse. It is 1.8 inches to its thickest point (where most components live), but most of the screen is about a quarter thick. Without support, it only weighs 36.6 lb, well within reach of what Smart suspend – and I assumed that my wall could manage.
Obtain the TV system and suspended in my house turned out to be the easy part (bought the TV in person and ordered the smart hang for delivery). Before I started the installation process, I started to measure where I wanted to hang the TV. I decided to place it equidistant between a closet door frame and the entrance to the kitchen. I hoped, would place him approximately centered in front of our new sections and rather large.
Determine the height of the wall to install the TV proved to be more difficult. Most experts suggest that you should install a TV approximately 25 inch from the ground. This would almost correspond to the height of my last TV when it is set (with stand) above my old Trenza. By almost all measures, however, it was too low, and everyone in my family, including visitors, complained about it.
I was also anxious to place television too high on the wall. I saw a lot of houses where people have placed a giant television as much as possible on the ceiling. None of us wanted to get into the neck to watch the TV, whatever its size.
The objective was to obtain the 65 -inch TV center as close as possible. As you can see on my very scientific post-it notes system, I spent a lot of time determining where and how to position the rectangle X 32.5 inches of 56.7 inch.
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The best place and a cash process
Even after having installed the best place, I had to understand where to position the hooks so that a hanging television is always found in this same box.
After unpacking the television and having carefully placed it in front of a large pouf, I opened the Hang smart packaging. For such a simple system, there were a lot of parts. It turns out that most of them would become unused; It’s just that Hang Smart includes all the equipment necessary for a wide variety of television brands, models and sizes. I used the paper guide strip included to determine which holes corresponded to the two upper vesa screw holes on my TV (they came out 300 mm from each other), then I found the matching screws. If the matching screws were too long, Hang Smart also includes spacers to make it work.
I used both screws to fix two metal television hooks at the back of my LG C5 TV. Then comes the pleasure and, if I am honest, a trying part of the nerves.
Usually, if I attach something heavy to my wall, I’m looking for studs. In this case, I did not care about the studs – except that I did it. I did not know if I needed to avoid the studs. At the end. I just followed the instructions and my own guides and I started trying to position everything properly on my lean wall.
Hangsmart is a fairly ingenious system. This guidance band is used to help you transfer where the hooks are on your TV with the appropriate positioning of Hang Smart smart wall supports.
Before moving the strip of paper from the back of my TV to the wall, I took the inclusive mini-level, I took off the support from the double-sided band and I glued the level in the center of the band in a space reserved for this purpose. This meant that now not only could I align the paper on the wall, but I could make sure that the intelligent suspended wall supports would be level (and my television too).
I put the colored guide strip on the wall in the position that would include my TV hanging at the right height (I measured from the top of my TV with Vesa screw holes to find out) and I used a pair of push pins included to doph on the wall. Then, I held each smart medium on the three appropriate points on the color guide and I used another pushing pin to temporarily put them in place.
The next part is important because that is really why the Hang intelligent system works and effectively contains up to 150 pounds on dry, plaster, wood, brick or concrete walls.
Each wall support has four holes fixed to angles of 45 strong and opposite degrees. The system is shipped with eight 3 -inch nails passing through these holes and within the walls. It is an effective way to share the stress of supporting almost my television of almost 37 pounds in four different directions.
I started to hit carefully in the eight nails with a hammer. There was a certain resistance on a couple, which, I think, meant that I could have nailed in or through a stallion, but they all flowed completely, and in a few moments, each intelligent medium was fixed to my wall.
Finally, my son and I carefully picked up the television and slipped the two hooks on the frames. My LG C5 OLED was safely.
Success and recommendations
It is an incredible and intelligently designed system. As suspended, the TV slightly moves forward, but not so much that it bothers me. If anything, I think it leans perfectly towards the section for an even better vision experience.
However, Hang Smart also considered this and includes a pair of thick black rubber spaces with a glue support that I can attach to the back of my TV to remove the tilt. I don’t know if I’m going to add them.
Overall, it is an affordable assembly system which is as easy to install and as effective as it is announced. It is not more expensive than a standard mounting system and, in the end, does less damage to your wall (8 small holes as opposed to two large). It did not hurt that modern OLEDs are so much lighter than other display technologies, but if someone now asked me how to mount a television on a wall, I would not hesitate to recommend Hang Smart.
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