AV and TV mounting in Englewood's older houses
An AV job in Englewood starts with twenty minutes of working out what is behind the wall before anything gets drilled. Plaster over wood lath, plaster over metal lath, a brick chimney breast, or a drywall patch where somebody already tried and gave up. Those four take four different anchors and only one of them forgives a wrong guess. Once I know which one I am looking at, the rest of the job is ordinary.
What AV work looks like in Englewood
- Stud spacing in a house from the forties is not reliably sixteen inches, so a mount's bolt pattern often lands on one stud and air. I pilot the plaster with a masonry bit so the face does not spall, find the second anchor point that actually exists, and lag into old dry fir that binds on a cheap screw long before it strips.
- Some of the plaster here was floated over metal lath, which is a wire screen sitting inside your walls. It eats 5 GHz, so a mesh kit that covers a newer house on two nodes dies in the hallway. These houses usually do have an open basement ceiling though, so I would rather pull one Ethernet line through the joists than sell you a third puck.
- Basements here tend to run about seven feet to the joists with ducts and a beam hanging below that. A projector wants throw distance and screen height you do not have, so the honest answer in most Englewood basements is a large panel and speakers placed properly rather than a theater room out of a catalog.
- The Broadway storefronts are their own problem. Brick party walls that a stud finder is useless on, a dropped grid hung under the original ceiling, and rarely an outlet anywhere near where the screen is supposed to go. I work out the power and the cable path before I pick the mount, not after.
- A lot of Englewood is rented, and renters ask what the wall looks like after they move out. Fair question. Pulling a mount back out of plaster and making it disappear is patch and skim work, not a dab of spackle, so I quote the removal at the same hourly rate up front instead of leaving it as a surprise.
Who else does this here
Englewood is not short of AV installers. On the order of fourteen give an address inside the city, and the nearest one to the center sits about four tenths of a mile out. That is more than sit in the ring three miles around it, so this trade lives here rather than driving in. Either way you have real choices and I am the newest and smallest of them. One truck, no crew, no reviews yet. What I can give you instead is a rate you can see before you call and an honest read on your wall.
| Where | Confirmed still trading | Listed in total |
|---|---|---|
| Based in Englewood itself | 9 | 14 |
| Within 5 miles of the center | 11 | 18 |
| 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
Eight miles and seventeen minutes means I do not batch Englewood onto set days the way I do with the far end of the map. Same week is normal, next day happens. Evenings work better than mornings, since the TV is usually in the room the household actually lives in. Then there is the calendar. My lawn side goes quiet from November through March, which is when I have the most room for a full day of AV work and when people are buying screens. August is the opposite. Send photos of the wall, the router corner, and whatever gear you own, and I can usually give you an hour count without coming out.
When I am the wrong call
I do not run new circuits or put an outlet in behind your TV. That is electrical work and it needs an electrician, and in the oldest Englewood houses with ungrounded two wire outlets it needs one before it needs me. I also will not be the person you call at eight on a Sunday because the game is on and the receiver is dead. One truck, no on call rotation. If your setup is the kind you cannot lose for a day, hire an outfit with a bench and a second van.
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 Englewood
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.