Clayfield is character housing: interwar Queenslanders and bungalows with high ceilings, original VJ and plaster, and owners who do not want any of it wrecked. We set the screen out from where you actually sit, fix through the boards to the framing, and price it before we start.
What Clayfield is built from
Much of Clayfield sits in Brisbane’s traditional character precincts, so the same house that makes the suburb worth living in makes the mounting job worth doing carefully.
Hardwood frames, VJ boards or hard plaster, 3 m ceilings and picture rails. The fixing is straightforward once the studs are found; the craft is in the set-out, the load spread across the boards, and leaving the rails and the boards as we found them. Renovated homes often have a dedicated media room off the back, which is the easiest room in the house.
The most common mistake we correct in Clayfield is a screen mounted too high. In a high-ceilinged room the correct height is set by the sofa, not the wall, and it is usually lower than the previous installer thought. We mark it and you sit and check before we drill.
Steel stud with gyprock and the occasional concrete party wall. Internal walls need no body corporate approval. Larger screens on steel stud get a spanning plate; concrete gets sleeve anchors and one straight run of surface duct.
The Topline Price Promise
Every mounting job is priced on your actual wall, screen and cable run: a free, fixed number in one call, no site-visit fee and nothing added on the day. Already have a written quote from an insured installer? Show us and we beat it. The quote always covers set-out at your preferred height, stud or masonry location, a bracket fixed across at least two studs or into structural masonry, the screen hung, levelled and locked, every source tested in front of you, and the room left clean. The full wall-by-wall detail is on the Brisbane TV wall mounting page.
Read before you book
Character homes raise the same three questions every time. These answer them.
Gyprock, brick, Hebel and VJ boards: what each one needs and what goes wrong when it is treated like plasterboard.
They look the same from inside and they are opposite jobs. How to tell, and why it changes the fixing.
Mounting inside a unit rarely needs approval; anything touching common property does. The process, plainly.
Around Clayfield
The same crew, the same price promise, one suburb over.
Queenslanders, post-war brick and the newer apartment blocks around the village.
Lowset brick veneer, chamferboard and fibro from the 60s to the 80s, plus newer townhouses near the station.
Chermside to Caboolture, including the new estates around North Lakes where steel frames and Hebel change the job.
The full service page: every wall type, the price promise and what a visit includes.
Clayfield questions
A photo of the wall, the ceiling height if you know it, and the screen size is enough to price most Clayfield jobs on the phone.
Call 0467 098 943Lower than most people first suggest. With 3 m or higher ceilings the instinct is to mount high, and the result is a screen you look up at from the sofa. We set out from the seated eye line, mark it, and let you sit and check before anything is drilled. On original VJ the bracket fixes through the boards to the studs, and we spread the load so the boards stay flat. If the room has picture rails, we work with them rather than through them.
Sometimes fully, often partly, and we tell you which on the phone. Where there is no cavity behind the boards there is nothing to drop a cable through, so the honest options are a short run of painted surface duct that follows a board line, a route down behind skirting, or through the floor into the subfloor where the house is raised, which is often the neatest answer in Clayfield. We never hide the limitation until the day.
Yes. They are mostly steel stud and gyprock with some concrete party walls, and internal-wall mounting needs no body corporate approval. Larger screens on steel stud get a spanning plate across several studs. Concrete gets sleeve anchors and surface duct for the cable, and we keep the duct to a single straight line.
Get a price
Tell us the screen size and whether the wall is VJ, plaster or gyprock. Clayfield is about 20 km from our Mango Hill base and books as standard metro travel.
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