Professional TV mounting, antenna and Starlink installation across Brisbane

All of the walls Brisbane homes are actually built from. Gyprock on timber stud is the common case: the bracket is coach-screwed into studs at 450 or 600 mm centres and must span at least two of them. Brick veneer looks like brick but the brick skin is not structural, so we fix through to the frame behind it. Double brick takes sleeve anchors into the brick face, never the mortar joints.

The ones that need care: steel stud (lighter, so big screens need a spanning plate), Hebel and AAC (crushes under standard anchors, AAC-specific fixings only), besser block (into solid webs, not hollow cores), poured concrete in apartments (very strong, but no cavity for cables) and Queenslander VJ tongue-and-groove, where 12 to 19 mm boards will visibly bow under a cantilever arm unless the load is spread across framing.

We confirm the wall with a stud finder before anything is drilled. A TV is not going on plasterboard alone.

Usually yes. Where there is a cavity, the leads drop inside the wall between two brush plates: one behind the screen, one down beside the power point. Nothing is visible and nothing is cut that cannot be patched.

Where there is no cavity - poured concrete, a filled block wall, a fire-rated wall, or a slab-on-ground with no chase - in-wall routing is not possible and we will say so before we start. The alternative is a slim surface duct, painted to the wall colour, which looks deliberate rather than improvised.

One limit worth knowing: moving or adding a power point behind the screen is electrical work and needs a licensed electrician. Running signal and HDMI leads is not.

Tell us what you have and we will price it either way. We can supply the bracket or fit one you have already bought, as long as it is rated for the screen.

Fixed sits closest to the wall and suits a screen you always watch from the same seat. Tilting earns its money above a fireplace or a high mount. Full-motion is the only option for a corner or a room you watch from two directions, but the arm multiplies the load on the wall, so the fixings and the wall type matter far more.

We match the bracket to the screen’s VESA pattern and weight. Anything over about 75 inches is a two-installer lift and we book it that way.

For antenna and Starlink work, yes. We work off the roof structure, not the covering: on tile we transfer load to battens and rafters rather than the tile face, because tiles crack under point loads and a penetration through a tile face is a leak path.

Two-storey, steep pitch and older tin all take longer to work safely, which is part of why roof jobs are quoted after we have seen the roof rather than over the phone.

Often not. Three causes come up far more often than a dead antenna.

Wrong plane. Mount Coot-tha transmits VHF, horizontally polarised. Darlington Range, which serves much of the south-east, transmits UHF vertically. An antenna on the wrong plane works in good weather and fails in a storm.

Too much signal. Close to a 50 kW omnidirectional transmitter, an amplifier can make the picture worse. Inner Brisbane reception faults are frequently over-amplification and reflections off nearby buildings.

The TV tuned itself to the wrong transmitter. Parts of Brisbane can pick up Sunshine Coast or Gold Coast services on auto-tune and store them. The fix is a manual tune and deleting the unwanted services: no hardware, no call-out. We will talk you through it on the phone.

When we do come out, you get the signal reading, not just an opinion.

The position is decided by the sky, not by convenience. Starlink needs a clear cone of sky from roughly 20 to 25 degrees above the horizon through to overhead, and the obstruction test in the Starlink app is the sanctioned way to check it. We run that test before choosing a spot, not after.

Then the roof decides the mount. Starlink states the Pivot Mount is not recommended for tile, slate and clay roofing, which rules it out on a great many Brisbane houses. In those cases the answer is a ballasted Ridgeline Mount, a bracket that loads the structure rather than the tile, or a pole or mast off a structural point. On Colorbond and corrugated steel a flashing-based mount manages water properly.

If you already have a sound antenna mast, the Pipe Adapter fits metal pipe from 31 to 63.5 mm, and reusing the mast avoids a new roof penetration altogether. Tree cover is the usual reason to go to a mast or a ground pole.

Almost everything is a single visit. A straightforward TV mount on a stud wall is short work. A tile-roof Starlink install with a long cable run, or an antenna job that turns out to need a new mast, takes considerably longer.

Rather than quote you an average that may not apply, we confirm the expected on-site time when we quote the job, so you know before you take time off.

Yes, and it is not an extra. Drop sheets go down before the drill comes out, dust is vacuumed, offcuts and packaging leave with us, and the old TV stand goes back where you want it. We will take the carton away too if you no longer need it.

Before we leave, every source gets tested in front of you and the remote goes back in your hand, working.

Usually, with permission in writing first. Renters in Queensland request approval for a fixture using the RTA’s Form 23, and the lessor has 28 days to respond. Get that in writing before you book: it protects you at the end of the tenancy.

In a strata building, a fixture or a new dish or antenna generally needs body corporate approval, and where the building runs a shared MATV system the antenna is the body corporate’s responsibility, not yours. We can put the technical detail in writing for your application.

Ask us about making good on the way out. It is far cheaper to plan the patch at install time than to improvise it later.

We carry public liability insurance and back our installations with a 5-year workmanship warranty: our labour and our fixings. Hardware carries its own manufacturer warranty.

Ask for the certificate of currency and the warranty terms before you book. Any installer worth having will hand them over without hesitating.