TV Mounting Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill

Triangle towns we cover, by county

Cary, Apex and the western Triangle have their own page →

Who installs in the Triangle

Express Mounting dispatches Raleigh and Durham jobs to installers from its vetted Triangle network, after taking the booking and setting the schedule. There is no Raleigh office. Coverage takes in Wake, Durham, Orange, Johnston, Franklin and Granville counties.

If you book before noon, the TV can be mounted the same day. Expect the installer 2-4 hours after you confirm.

Triangle walls: brick veneer and small-town plaster

Newer Triangle houses are brick veneer, vinyl or fiber-cement over wood studs, a plain stud install with no surcharge. What sets the area apart is how many old small-town cores it takes in, and plaster turns up in nearly every one of them.

Brick veneer over wood studs No surcharge

Subdivisions and new tract: Wake Forest, Garner, Knightdale, Clayton, Rolesville and the newer parts of Chapel Hill.

How it is mounted: Mounted on the inside face of the wall, with the bracket in the studs behind the drywall.

Brick and stone veneer, explained

Plaster and lath No surcharge

Older houses in Durham's pre-war neighborhoods, Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough, and in the old cores of Smithfield, Selma, Louisburg, Franklinton and Zebulon.

How it is mounted: Studs located first, since plaster fools most stud finders, then lag bolts into them.

Finding studs behind plaster

Solid brick +$99 masonry surcharge

Durham's tobacco-warehouse lofts, where the walls are brick and heavy timber.

How it is mounted: Masonry anchors in the brick face or the mortar joint, whichever lines up with the mount's holes.

Drilling brick safely

The oldest houses stand in colonial and 1800s county seats such as Hillsborough, Louisburg and Smithfield. Then come the 1880s-1930s tobacco, mill and rail towns, and the growth since the 1990s has turned crossroads like Rolesville and Archer Lodge into new-build towns.