Hey guys..... Been in the business about 2 years. Got a pretty big project going on and the customer wants an lcd monitor flush mountd in master bathroom wall. Wall is going to be tiled around the screen. Audio is not a problem, we are using a russound cav6 for whole house audio and will run the audio off of that. What do you suggest? I have never done this. Doesn't seem to hard. Seems like alot of potential problems?? Do I have to worry about heat inside the wall cavity?

Thanks in advance-
Josh

This message was edited by Josh99 on 10/11/04 22:08 ET.

I have one suggestion for you. Since you can edit this thread, open it up to edit and change the name of the thread to something that in some even sort of maybe vague way gives the tiniest scintilla of a hint to the person looking at the thread index just what the heck your question might be about.

I will bet that a lot of people have not bothered to look at this thread because the title "Question" is sort of like getting an email with the subject line "email." OF COURSE it's a question!

Now that I have that out of my system....

It is likely that the display plus the depth of the wall will give you too little space behind the display to meet the manufacturer's spec. If you run that by the client, and they want to do it anyway, knowing that it might or might not fail or have a shorter lifetime (and if it needs replacement in two years, chances are SLIM that another unit of the same size will be available, so wall work including drywall and paint will be necessary at that time), then go for it!

Figure out some way to hang the thing inside the wall. Be creative because the normal mounts will not work. I mean hang, because the support will have to be above the unit; you will not have room to put it behind, and you SURE can't put a bolt through the drywall back there!

How about this solution. TV in the mirror -

[Link: seuratvmirror.com]

Just a little too, too picky there Ernie. I saw the post and had a pretty good idea of what the question was about. No need to repost with a reformat of the question in my mind.

Now then, in regards to the question.

I've done this LCD inwall deal.

I first had the framer set the studs so as to allow for the sheetrock to wrap back into the cavity, and add a top and bottom purlin which boxed in the opening. This rough framing was sized to allow for a 1/2" free space all around the display, after the sheetrock was wrapped back into the cavity.

I then made a custom mount out of metal "strip" stock, that spanned from stud to stud in the wall cavity. One piece mounted to the display, and the other mounted to the studs, in such a way that the display was simply slid down into a locked position. That effectively took care of the mounting issue.

This unit has been in position for about 2 years, and has been working just fine. Heat doesn't seem to be an issue.

For what it's worth, I would have rather had more room around the unit. But, that's only if a replacement was needed, and dimensions might have changed (requiring a tad more room).

Trunk- Thanks for the idea. Pretty much what I was thinking, wrapping the drywall makes better sense too. I was going to cut in a blank register opening at the top of the stud space and put a return grill on it, just in case of a heat issue-

Trunk-Slammer,

I'm going to stand up for Ernie here... seems you only looked at the thread after the Thread was renamed.

The original name of the thread was "Question"! That's why Ernie got on the soap box, and Josh99 was smart enough to realize the subject was just not descriptive enough.

I just looked up on the web for an LCD Tv and found this one:
Philips Epic Series 17" Widescreen HDTV LCD TV
it is rated at 50W
That's not a lot considering the size of the cut- out, and an inch or so around should be plenty to provide cooling. IMO.
LCD's are fairly low power: Plasma's are fairly high power (just put your face up close to one).