TV mounting and AV installation in Denver
In southeast Denver the wall you want the TV on was usually built in the 1950s, and on a lot of these blocks that wall has a brick fireplace running right up the middle of it. Masonry anchors, a cable route that does not exist yet, and a mount height that works from a low mid century sofa are where the time actually goes. Since 2023 I have run audio, video, lighting and carpentry for touring live entertainment, which is where I learned to do that part fast. Home base is this side of town, so Virginia Village and Cook Park are a short drive rather than a half day.
What AV work looks like in Denver
- Southeast Denver ranches from the fifties and sixties tend to put the fireplace in the middle of the main living room wall, which is exactly where the TV wants to go. Brick takes a different anchor than a stud, and there is no cavity behind it to hide a cable, so the run comes around the side or up from the basement.
- Denver sits at 5,280 feet, above the point where most projector makers tell you to switch on high altitude mode. Thin air carries less heat off the lamp, so the default setting runs it hotter than it was built for. It is a menu item that takes ten seconds and it is the first thing I check on a projector here.
- A lot of the postwar houses on this side of town have hot water baseboard heat and no ductwork, and the attic over a low pitch roof is not somewhere a person fits. That removes both of the easy chases for pulling cable, so wiring a second room usually means down into the basement and back up, or a mesh node instead.
- Around Cherry Creek plenty of this work happens in buildings rather than houses. Book the freight elevator before I arrive and tell me if management limits drilling into a shared wall. A forty minute mount becomes a two hour one when I am carrying a 75 inch box up a stairwell and waiting at a front desk.
- AV is the one trade of my three where parts land on the invoice: a mount, a surge strip, forty feet of HDMI. Denver charges its own sales tax on goods on top of the state's, so buying the mount yourself means labor is all you owe me. Either way is fine and I will tell you which is cheaper before I order anything.
Who else does this here
Denver is not short of AV businesses. It is short of ones that come to your house. Most of the audio visual records across the south metro are stores, dealers and television providers rather than someone who will come and hang one television. Very few list TV mounting as their main line. This is also the only one of my three trades where that dataset flags businesses as permanently closed, which tells you something about churn. I am the small new option here, with no reviews and no gallery of finished walls yet. What I can offer instead is a real number from photos, usually the same day.
| Where | Confirmed still trading | Listed in total |
|---|---|---|
| Based in Denver itself | 27 | 35 |
| Within 5 miles of the center | 18 | 25 |
| Across the south metro | 57 | 78 |
Where these came from, so you can check them. They are counted from Overture Maps Places, an open business dataset, release 2026-08-19.0, as it stood on 2026-08-30. Overture says outright whether a business is still trading on about two thirds of its records, which is why there are two columns: the left one is what I can stand behind and the right one is the ceiling. Of the 958 businesses matched across all three trades, 5 in this trade are marked permanently closed. I would rather show you the seam in the data than round it off and sound certain.
Scheduling and getting there
Denver is home, so there is no drive to price in. Most weeks I can reach a mount or a WiFi problem on the southeast side within a couple of days, and evenings work fine because the job is indoors and quiet. Winter is the easy season for this one. Lawn work stops around November and starts again in March, which leaves January and February as the simplest weeks to get on my calendar. If I am already at your place for a mow or a clean, a mount usually gets folded into that visit rather than triggering a second one with its own minimum.
When I am the wrong call
If the TV needs power where there is no outlet, that is an electrician's job and I will say so. Same answer for a dealer locked control system that only an authorized dealer can program. A conference room with a ceiling projector at twenty feet needs a lift and a second pair of hands, and I am one person with one truck. I would rather point you elsewhere on those than take the booking and work it out on your time.
What this covers
Everything runs on the same terms: $40 an hour with a 1 hour minimum, nno trip charge, ever. most jobs can be quoted from photos and a description without me coming out at all, which costs you nothing and is usually faster. if it does need eyes on it, the visit is still free.
The rest of Denver
I do all three trades everywhere I go, so if you are booking one you can usually fold in the others on the same visit.