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07/17/2026

77 inch fireplace install on a recent job in Greenwood Village, and this one required actual problem solving from start to finish. Let me walk you through it. 📺🔥

Beautiful home. Built in bookshelves on both sides of the fireplace, custom white mantel with detailed millwork, tile surround, gas insert. The whole feature wall is a work of art. Homeowner had a 77 inch TV he wanted mounted above it. ⚡

First trip out to the house was to inspect and plan the install. And it is a good thing I do that step, because as soon as I got in there and measured, I hit the first problem. The 77 inch TV was actually too big to fit up in the space above the mantel the normal way. If I tried to mount it standard, it was either going to sit too high, hit the ceiling area, or the studs I needed to catch would be way off center from the fireplace and the TV would look shifted to one side of the wall. None of those were the right answer. 🔧

Most guys would tell the homeowner at that point, sorry, your TV is too big, you need to buy a smaller one. I hate that answer. So I told him let me think about it, and I came up with a plan.

The play was to install a solid wood cleat across the studs above the mantel, wide enough to cover more area than the actual studs cover on their own. Then mount a standard TV bracket to that wood cleat instead of directly into the wall. That gives me two things. One, I get to position the mount exactly where I want it, centered over the fireplace, no matter where the studs actually fall behind the drywall. Two, I have a solid wood surface to catch every hardware anchor point on the bracket, way more surface than just two vertical studs. Rock solid, perfectly centered, problem solved. ✅

Then I hit the second problem. When I went to secure the wood cleats to the wall, I found out the framing behind the drywall was not standard construction. It was wood furring strips over solid concrete. Which nobody knew going in, including the homeowner. That is a totally different anchor situation than normal drywall over wood studs. You cannot just drive a lag bolt into a furring strip and call it good. The furring strip alone will not hold the weight of a 77 inch TV and mount long term. To do it right, the cleat anchors had to go through the furring strip and all the way into the concrete behind it.

So back to the truck, grabbed my SDS hammer drill. Drilled through the wood furring, into the concrete, set the concrete anchors, secured the wood cleats through both layers. Then mounted the TV bracket to the wood cleats, then hung the 77 inch TV. Three material types working together on one install. Concrete anchors biting into the wall behind. Wood cleats spanning the surface. TV bracket bolts holding the TV to the cleats. 🔧

Finished result? The 77 inch TV is up over the mantel, centered on the fireplace, and honestly it looks like it belongs there. Yes it hangs down a little over the top of the mantel opening because it is oversized for that specific spot, but the way it sits actually looks natural now. Not shifted off center, not weirdly positioned, just up there like it was always meant to be. Homeowner is thrilled. I am thrilled. Wall looks great.

This is what you are paying for when you hire a real installer. Not just somebody who can put screws in a wall. Somebody who walks in, sees the puzzle in front of them, and figures out how to get the finished result you actually want without telling you to buy a different TV.

If your fireplace install is not straightforward, if the TV is a weird size for the space, if you are not sure what is behind that wall, call me. Those are the jobs I love.

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07/14/2026

Commercial install on a recent job in Castle Pines, up in the Happy Canyon area, and this one had some real meat to it. Let me walk you through it. 📺

The client runs a security monitoring operation. I am not exactly sure what all they do over there, but they had a serious setup going. Big wall of monitors displaying dozens of live camera feeds, dispatch desk with multiple screens, phones, the whole command center vibe. Not a police station, but definitely a professional security operation with a chief running it. Good people, serious work. 🔧

My part of the job was the TV on the right side of the monitor wall. They had an older TV in that spot that had quit working. I came in to replace it and integrate it into their existing camera monitoring system. Two things made this install different from a normal residential job.

First, this TV is mounted in portrait orientation. Vertical, not horizontal. Most TVs are designed to hang landscape, and mounting one vertically means the bracket has to be correct for the orientation, the weight distribution on the mount is different, and the cable routing all has to be planned around a different geometry. It also means the internal software has to be set right so the picture displays correctly rotated. Small detail that becomes a big deal if you get it wrong. ⚡

Second, the cable concealment on this one is where the real work was. I got the TV up on my first trip out, cut my concealment holes in the drywall, went to fish the cables through, and discovered there was a firewall running between the two spaces. Not standard drywall. A commercial firewall assembly sitting right in my path.

Now here is where most guys would either give up and run the cables surface mounted, or start tearing more drywall off the wall to get around the problem. Neither one was the right answer. Tearing more drywall out on a commercial wall for a customer means more patch work, more paint work, more mess, and a slower finish. Bad plan. ✅

The right play was to drill through the firewall from inside the concealment cutouts I had already opened. Problem was, I did not have a bit long enough to make that reach cleanly. So I stopped, told the chief what I needed to do, went out and ordered the specific tool for the job, along with a special concealment kit designed for this type of install. A long bit designed to reach through from one concealment hole, punch through the firewall in the exact right spot, and give me a clean path for the cables to run without opening up any more of the wall than I already had. 🔧

Waited for the tools to come in. Came back out for a second trip. Ran that long bit from inside the concealment hole, through the firewall, out the other side. Fed the HDMI and the kit's power through, cleaned up, and buttoned the wall back up.

That is why this job took a couple visits and some patience. Doing it the right way meant getting the right tool for the specific situation this wall put in front of me. Wrong tool, wrong plan, wrong job. Right tool, right plan, clean finish.

Finished result speaks for itself. Portrait mounted TV, cables tucked away, no cords showing on the front, new screen integrated into their security wall, and their whole setup back at full capability. Chief was very happy.

This is the kind of work I really enjoy. Every commercial job has its own puzzle. You show up, look at what you are actually dealing with, and if the job needs a tool you do not have yet, you go get it. Hack jobs cut corners and cut walls up. Real installs take the time to get the right gear and do it clean.

Commercial work, Castle Pines, Happy Canyon, Colorado Springs, South Denver area, and everywhere in between. If you have got a business, an HOA operation, an office, or any commercial space that needs professional TV or AV work done, give me a call.

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07/07/2026

Another one buttoned up clean on a recent install in Monument. 📺🔥

Big flat screen mounted flush above a stacked stone fireplace with a nice thick dark wood mantel, cables fully concealed in wall, no cords running down the wall, no cords hanging off the back, just a finished feature wall exactly the way it is supposed to look. ⚡

Fun detail on this one. When I fired up the TV to make sure everything was running right, the homeowner had it pulled up on the live city cams from the Town of Monument's own website. Not his own security cameras, actual public traffic and weather cams the town runs. I stood there for a second grinning at that because it tells you exactly what kind of guy owns this house. A guy who loves the town he lives in enough to put it on the big screen in his living room. That is Monument pride right there.

Now here is a detail worth pointing out on this install. The stacked stone on this fireplace stops at the mantel. Everything below the mantel is that beautiful gray stacked stone surround. Everything above the mantel where the TV lives is standard drywall. And honestly, that is exactly what you want to see on an above the fireplace install. ✅

Here is why. Stone surfaces are a bear to mount into. Uneven thickness, grout lines, hidden depth, no consistent stud pattern behind them. If a builder had stacked that stone all the way up to the ceiling I would have been drilling into stone to get this TV up, which is doable but adds real time and hardware to the job. Because the stone stops at the mantel, the section above it is standard drywall over wood framing, and that is the fastest, cleanest surface to work with. Studs behind the drywall, mount goes up tight, cables run through the wall the standard way, done. 🔧

Whoever designed this fireplace made the right call. Stone for the visual weight and the wow factor down low around the firebox, drywall up top for a clean TV zone. Smart build.

Now here is the bonus round. While I was on site, the homeowner asked if I could hang a mirror for him too. Yeah, absolutely. Once I am already at the house with the level, the stud finder, the drill, and everything is dialed in, hanging additional stuff on the wall is quick work. If there is other things around the house you have been meaning to get up on the wall, just tell me when I get there. TVs, mirrors, art, floating shelves, whatever. Way easier to knock it out in one trip than to schedule a separate handyman visit.

Veteran owned. Solo operator. Show up when I say I will. Do it right the first time.

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06/30/2026

This is the other half of the Castle Rock install I posted about, and I want to talk about it because the cables are showing on this one and I am not going to pretend otherwise. 📺

Quick recap. Homeowner had a Samsung Frame TV in this exact spot in the living room. They wanted to move the Frame to the bedroom on the other side of the wall, and replace it with a new 77 inch flat screen here in the living room. Two TV install. The Frame relocation came out beautiful, clean cable through the wall, you can see that one in my other post if you missed it. ⚡

Now this 77 inch. After we got the Frame moved over to the bedroom and the One Connect box situation sorted out, we hung the 77 inch right here where the Frame used to live. Mount went up tight, TV got mounted, leveled, locked in, sound bar on the credenza, fired the whole thing up and ran them through the network setup. So far so good.

But you can see the cables. Two of them, coming down from the bottom of the TV to the sound bar on the credenza. So let me walk through why.

When I do an in wall cable concealment, I drill two holes. One up high behind the TV, one down low behind the equipment. The cable runs inside the wall between the two holes, completely hidden. To conceal the cables for this 77 inch I would have needed to drill a third hole to access the existing concealment chase I had already opened up for the Frame side of the install. I offered to do exactly that. Walked them through it, explained what the wall would look like when it was done. ✅

Two things on their side. One, they were not super excited about another hole getting put in their wall, and that is a totally fair call. Two, they did not have an HDMI cable on hand that was long enough to make the concealment work even if they had said yes. So between the two, the right answer was to leave the cables surface routed and call it good. 🔧

Here is the part I want people to understand. A clean install is the goal, but the homeowner gets the final vote on what happens to their wall. Always. My job is to tell them exactly what is possible, lay out the options honest and clear, and execute whatever they decide. Their house, their call. If I tried to talk them into the third hole when they were not on board with it, I would not be doing my job, I would be doing my ego.

So yeah. Visible cables on this one, on purpose, with the full picture explained to the homeowner up front. That is what honest install work actually looks like.

The Frame on the other side of that wall though? Magazine cover clean. Two TVs, two completely different situations, one homeowner happy with both. That is the win.

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06/29/2026

Samsung Frame TV install on a recent job in Castle Rock, and this one is a great example of why experience matters on premium TV installs. 📺🎨

Let me explain what the Frame actually is, because a lot of people see it and assume it is just a regular TV with a fancy frame around it. It is not. The Frame is Samsung's art TV, designed to look like a piece of framed art on the wall when you are not watching it. It is sitting in Art Mode in the photo, displaying a painting. The whole thing is built to make the TV disappear into the room when it is off. Premium product, premium positioning, exactly the kind of work I love doing. ⚡

Here is the part most people do not know about the Frame. It does not have all its inputs and ports on the TV itself like every other television. Samsung puts all the power, HDMI inputs, audio outputs, and electronics into a separate component called a One Connect box. The box sits in a cabinet somewhere in the room, and a single thin cable runs from the box to the TV. That is how Samsung pulls off the no cables look. ✅

So here is the puzzle this homeowner handed me. The Frame had been mounted on a wall in the living room with the One Connect box in a cabinet right below it. They wanted to move the Frame to the bedroom. The bedroom happens to be on the other side of the same wall the TV was already on. And they wanted the One Connect box to stay exactly where it was, in the living room cabinet, because that is where all their other equipment lived.

The play here was a little outside the normal box. Normally when I run in wall cable concealment, the cable goes up one side of the wall and the TV mounts on that same side. On this one, I ran the concealment through the wall and out the back side. That means the One Connect box stays put in the living room cabinet, the single Frame cable runs through the wall, and the Frame mounts perfectly clean on the bedroom side with no visible cables anywhere on the wall. 🔧

That is what proper Frame installation looks like. Art Mode on, no cords showing, no compromise on the no cables aesthetic the Frame is designed for.

If you have got a Samsung Frame, or you are thinking about buying one, give me a call. These are not DIY installs. The One Connect box placement, the cable routing, the mount selection, all of it requires knowing how this specific TV is built. 🇺🇸

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06/03/2026

TV and full surround sound setup on a recent install in Parker, and there is a real story in this one. 📺🔊

Let me set the scene. Homeowner had a beautiful tile fireplace running floor to ceiling, big linear electric firebox down below, and he wanted the works up top. Big flat screen, sound bar, and two satellite speakers mounted on the wall for proper surround sound coverage. Total home theater build on the feature wall. ⚡

First problem to solve. Tile fireplace surrounds are gorgeous but they kill your in wall cable options. You are not fishing wires behind tile without ripping the wall apart. He had been smart and had an outlet pre installed up high so we had power for the TV with no wires showing, but the sound bar wires were a different story. Nowhere to hide them inside the wall. 🔧

The fix was a floating sound bar mount. It is a clean little piece of hardware that lets you mount the sound bar to the TV/TV Mount AND hides the cable run behind the bar itself instead of inside the wall. Different solution for a different problem. When you cannot go through the wall, you find a way to go around it without making the room look like a science project. ✅

Then we mounted the two satellite speakers on the upper corners of the wall on either side of the TV for proper surround sound staging. That is where most installs fall apart. People put a sound bar up and call it surround sound. It is not. Surround sound means speakers actually placed around you so the audio moves through the room the way it is supposed to. Front, sides, behind. That is what makes a movie sound like a movie.
Now here is the part I want to be honest about, because this is what separates a real install from a phoned in one.

First day out, I had a sound bar mount picked out for him, brought it with me, started getting everything set up, and that mount just was not going to work for this specific sound bar on this specific wall. Could I have made it kind of work? Yeah, maybe. Would it have looked right and felt solid? No. So I packed it up, told the homeowner I would be back, went out, found a different mount that was actually right for the job, and came back another day to finish it. Did not charge him extra. Did not cut corners. Just got the right hardware and did it right the second trip.

That is the cost of doing it the way it is supposed to be done. Sometimes the gear you brought is not the gear the job actually needs, and you do not pretend otherwise.
Finished wall came out beautiful. Homeowner and his family were all happy with it, and that is the only review that counts on install day.

If you are in Parker, Castle Rock, or anywhere in the south metro and you have got a TV and a surround sound build you want done correctly the first time, call me.

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06/02/2026

Outdoor TV install on a recent job in Castle Rock, and this one is worth talking about because outdoor installs are a whole different animal from anything that happens inside a house. 📺☀️

Let me walk you through what most people do not realize about putting a TV outside.

First thing. That TV up there is a Sylvox. Which means it is an actual outdoor rated television built to live outside. Sealed against moisture, brighter panel to fight the Colorado sun, temperature rated for our weather swings, the whole package. This is what you are supposed to use outdoors. ⚡

What you are NOT supposed to do is take your old indoor TV from the living room, slap it on the back of the house under a patio cover, and call it good. I see it all the time. People do it, it works for a few weeks, and then the first real rain or the first hot summer afternoon comes along and the panel fogs up or the electronics fry. Indoor TVs are not built for this. They will die. It is just a question of when. This homeowner did it right from the start. That said, there are conditions and situations where you CAN put an indoor TV outside, and we certainly go over those points with you on site, but this particular setup NEEDED that TV. Period. ✅

Second thing, and this is the part nobody warns you about. Finding studs through exterior siding is a whole different process than finding them through interior drywall. That siding is thick. It is textured. It has overlap and air gaps and insulation behind it. Your basic magnetic stud finder from the hardware store is going to lie to you out there. You have to know where to start, how to verify, and how to confirm you actually have wood behind the bit before you commit a single hole. Miss the stud on an outdoor mount and now you have a TV hanging on drywall anchors against the weight of itself, the wind load, and gravity working on it every single day. That TV is coming down. It is just a matter of when. 🔧

Third thing. Cable runs outside have to be routed through the wall and sealed properly so weather does not get behind the siding and start eating your house from the inside out. Cables hanging down the outside of a wall on an outdoor install are a hack job. Period.

And the last piece. See that Hulu activation code on the screen? That is because the job is not done until the TV is actually working. I do not just hang it and leave you to figure out the streaming setup yourself. I get it on the WiFi, get the apps loaded, get the streaming services signed in and ready to go, and confirm the picture and sound are dialed in before I pack up.

Outdoor entertainment spaces are exactly the kind of premium work I love doing. If you have got a patio, a deck, a pool area, or a covered outdoor space and you have been thinking about a TV out there, do not cut corners on the install. Call me and let us do it the right way the first time.

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05/28/2026

Buttoned up a clean one on a recent install in Castle Rock. 📺🔥

Big flat screen mounted over a floor to ceiling tile fireplace, custom wood mantel sitting on corbel brackets, cables tucked away clean, and the whole feature wall pulling the room together exactly like it should. This is the kind of fireplace install that makes a living room. ⚡

Now I have to tell on this one a little bit. I got the TV mounted, leveled, locked in, and fired it up to make sure everything was running right before I packed up. Homeowner had Sling pulled up. And what is sitting right there on the home screen? The A-Team. The Rock. And Black Hawk Down. 🚁

A Security Forces vet finishes mounting your TV and the screen lights up with Black Hawk Down. I am not saying it was a sign, but I am not NOT saying it. Stood there grinning like an idiot for a second before I caught myself. Good house, good people, good taste in movies.

Here is the real talk part though, because this is the stuff that matters. A tile fireplace surround like this one is no joke to mount on. That is not drywall you can patch if you make a mistake. That is tile. You drill in the wrong spot, you crack a tile, and now you are not a TV installer anymore, you are the guy who owes a homeowner a new fireplace face. Every hole gets measured, marked, and verified before the drill ever touches that surface. The mantel height, the firebox clearance, the viewing angle from the couch, all of it gets accounted for before the first anchor goes in. ✅

That is the difference between somebody who hangs TVs and somebody who actually knows what they are doing on a fireplace wall. Measure it like it matters, because it does.

If you have got a tile or stone fireplace and a TV you want up there done right, that is exactly the work I want. Give me a call.

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05/27/2026

Another one knocked out on a recent install in Colorado Springs. 📺

Flat screen mounted over a linear electric fireplace in a modern build, clean white feature wall, tilt bracket dialed in, fired up the TV and got it on the network before walking out the door. ⚡

Let me talk about something most people do not think about until it is too late. The viewing angle on an above the fireplace mount. 🔧

Here is what happens. Homeowner buys a flush flat mount, gets it level with a stud finder and a YouTube video, and feels pretty good about the install. Then they sit down on the couch that night to watch a movie. And after fifteen minutes they realize their neck is killing them, because they are craning up at a TV that is angled straight out into the ceiling instead of down toward the seating.

That is why above the fireplace installs almost always need a tilt mount, not a flat mount. The whole point is to take that screen and angle it down a few degrees so the picture is actually pointing at the couch where the people are. Sounds obvious when I say it. Almost nobody thinks about it before the TV is already on the wall. ✅

On this one we sized the mount to the TV, set the height for the room, tilted it to the correct angle for the seating distance, ran the cables, mounted the TV, and then powered it up and walked the homeowner through getting it on the WiFi and signed into their apps. Done is done when the TV is actually working, not when it is just hanging.

That is the standard. Veteran owned, solo operator, every job gets the same attention from start to finish. 🇺🇸

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05/02/2026

85 inch flat screen up over a fireplace on a recent install in Colorado Springs, just outside the Black Forest. 📺

This one was a beauty. Two story great room, dark tile running floor to ceiling, custom wood mantel, big windows pulling in natural light from both sides. The kind of feature wall a builder put real thought into, and the homeowner wanted a TV that matched the scale of the room. So we hung an 85. ⚡

Now here is the thing on this job. Homeowner had already done some of the homework himself. He had the mount picked out and ready to go, and the in wall cable pathway was already roughed in from the build. So this was not a full ground up install. This was bringing the experience, the equipment, and the second set of hands to get an 85 inch TV up on a tall fireplace wall without anything going sideways. 🔧

And that is a real service all by itself. Let me tell you what an 85 inch TV actually is, because most people have no idea until they get one in the house. It is heavy. It is big. It is awkward. It is not a one person job. You can have the right mount, the right cable run, and the right wall, and still end up with a five thousand dollar TV on the floor if the lift onto the bracket goes wrong. Especially up at that height. ✅

We fed the cables through the existing concealment, lifted the TV onto the bracket, locked it in, leveled it out, and that wall went from nice to finished. Stood back, took a look, homeowner was happy. Job done.

If you have already got the mount, already got the cables figured out, and you just need somebody who knows what they are doing to actually put the TV up safely, that is a call I take all the time. You are not paying me for the parts you already handled. You are paying me to make sure the last ten minutes of the project does not turn into a disaster.

Big TVs, big walls, premium homes in the Springs and out toward the Black Forest. That is the work I want to be doing.

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