With football season right around the corner, I want to put a TV on our covered back patio. Our initial thought was to get an outdoor TV, until we realized how expensive they were. Now we are thinking about mounting an indoor TV to the brick wall and building a cabinet around it. Any thoughts or tips?
OT: TV on Back Patio
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My backyard neighbor built a cabinet (well he had it built) and mounted one on the wall on his patio last year. They watched a bunch of games and had a hell of a lot of fun with it. Sorry I don`t have any tips but I can tell you you would enjoy it.
Here's my setup
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You don't need an outdoor TV. I bought the cheapest TV I could find and it has worked fine for 3 years
dont know why the picture shows up upside down
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You don't need an outdoor TV. I bought the cheapest TV I could find and it has worked fine for 3 years
dont know why the picture shows up upside down
Instead of buying an overpriced outdoor TV, but a cheap indoor one and come to grips with buying one every two or three years. You can get a great 58" TV for less than $1000 now a days.
I mounted a 7 year old 52" Samsung into brick spring of 2014. It's still going strong and routinely gets cobwebs and some mist from rain on it. It withstood the Houston heat for two summers too. When it craps out, I'll replace it with something cheap.
I mounted a 7 year old 52" Samsung into brick spring of 2014. It's still going strong and routinely gets cobwebs and some mist from rain on it. It withstood the Houston heat for two summers too. When it craps out, I'll replace it with something cheap.
I have a friend that has had a regular cheap brand indoor lcd on his deck for about four years now with no problems. That is what I am doing.
I've had a 7 year old 40 inch Sony TV outside under our pool cabana for a few years now. Still going strong. I bring it back in the house later in the fall when it starts getting colder. The cold actually hurts them more than the heat.
I have a previously used inside TV mounted in a similar situation to the one that you describe and have had no problems. I went by Hancock fabric and obtained some heavy waterproof material and made a cover for the TV that I use when I I am not using it. I also disconnect the power to the TV by unplugging the power core from the TV. I think that you will fine that a regular TV works just fine.
As long as your TV is out of the rain/moisture, you should be fine with a regular LCD/LED type flat-screen. There is no need to spend all the extra $$ for an outdoor TV if it's going to be mounted under a porch anyway.
We had a special power and cable outlet ran near the top corner of our porch. I used an older 32" LCD TV we had in a spare bedroom and got a mount like this from Home Depot. I got a 3/8" masonry bit and after leveling/marking my holes, went to work on drilling directly into the bricks, not the mortar. This was the toughest part. But I got it hung in the corner and got this cover off of Amazon. As long as it's under a cover it shouldn't matter what type of TV you have out there.
I have had a regular TV, 32" LED underneath the overhang of my house for almost 6 years now with no issues. I keep it covered with a cover from here:
http://www.customcoolcovers.com/products.html
You send them your TV dimensions and they custom make it...maybe a little pricey...around $150 for mine with the velcro closing on the bottom and a gold fleur de lis on a black cover.
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http://www.customcoolcovers.com/products.html
You send them your TV dimensions and they custom make it...maybe a little pricey...around $150 for mine with the velcro closing on the bottom and a gold fleur de lis on a black cover.
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The trash can isn't Maron, or even Black & Gold. You didn't even bother to put logo stickers on it. Why do you insist on living in squalor?!******
Querstion about the covers? I'm far enough under a roof that it's not going to get any rain on it. When the wind blows pretty hard I guess it gets almost misty underneath there and a cover might be good at those time. But on the other hand, it's always going to be humid, and I'm worried that putting a cover on will just trap humidity in and maybe increase the chances of condensation as temperature outside the cover changes faster than inside the cover. Do you ever fell like you are "trapping moisture" inside the cover by putting it on? I feel like that's a stupid concern b/c I'm not exactly sure what mechanism I'm worried about, but just being out there, intuitively it feels like putting a cover on would actually do as much harm as good.
I'm in the same boat as you as far as not worrying about getting the TV wet...it's about six feet from the end of the house overhang and then I have a covered pergola that goes out about another 13 feet or so. I keep the cover on mainly to prevent dust getting on the screen and in the inputs. The cover I have is really well insulated and has Velcro on the bottom that can be fastened as loose or as tight as you want. I've had mine for about six years now and never had any issues with condensation or anything else for that matter.
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