TV WALL
MOUNTING IN
CANBERRA.

Polytechnitis mounts televisions across Canberra and Queanbeyan, on whatever the wall turns out to be made of. The bracket goes into structure, not into lining board. The screen comes out level. The cables end up somewhere you cannot see them. It sounds like a 20 minute job, and on a timber-stud wall with an existing power point it often is, but the reason people call us is that the wall is rarely that simple.

A wall-mounted TV carries between 10 and 40 kilograms on 4 bolts, at head height, usually above a couch. Getting that wrong is not a cosmetic problem. Our team checks what is behind the surface before anything is drilled, which matters more in Canberra than most places because the housing stock runs from 1950s brick through 1970s battened lining to new-estate plasterboard, and plenty of homes have all 3 in different rooms.

What we mount

Polytechnitis mounts more than televisions, and most jobs end up covering several items in one visit.

• Televisions from small bedroom screens to 85 inch and above
• Fixed, tilt and full-motion brackets
• Soundbars, either bracketed or on a shelf below the screen
• Floating shelves for consoles, set-top boxes and speakers
• Heavy mirrors, framed art and picture walls
• Curtain rails, blinds and pelmets
• Wall-mounted heaters, bathroom cabinets and towel rails
• Taking an old screen down, patching the holes and remounting elsewhere

If a new TV has arrived with a wall of other flat boxes behind it, our flat pack assembly covers the entertainment unit and the rest of the furniture in the same visit.

Wall types we work with

Polytechnitis mounts on all 4 of the wall builds common in Canberra homes, and the wall decides the fixing, the time and the price far more than the size of the television does.

Plasterboard over timber stud

The most common wall in Canberra and the easiest to get right, as long as the bracket lands on timber. We find the studs, confirm the spacing, and bolt through the plasterboard into the stud behind it. Plasterboard anchors alone are the single most common cause of a screen coming off a wall, because the board is roughly 10 millimetres of compressed gypsum and it is holding nothing structural.

Brick, besser block and concrete

Solid substrates, and once the right masonry anchors are in they will hold more than the screen ever weighs. The trade-off is time and dust. Polytechnitis drills with a hammer drill, vacuums as we go, and cleans the area before we leave. Older Canberra brick homes sometimes have a battened cavity over the brick, which changes the fixing again, so we check rather than assume.

Metal stud and Hebel

Common in apartments and newer builds, and both need specific fixings rather than a timber screw. Polytechnitis uses anchors rated for the substrate. Published Australian rates add a premium for these walls precisely because they take longer, and we will say so when we quote rather than discovering it on the day.

Walls we check twice

Some walls are not what they look like. Polytechnitis uses a stud finder and checks for services before drilling, because the 3 things people hit are predictable: electrical cable runs above a power point or switch, water pipes on a wall backing onto a bathroom or laundry, and the old flue cavity behind a patched-over fireplace. If what is behind the wall rules out the spot you wanted, we tell you before the first hole rather than after.

Cable concealment options

Polytechnitis offers 3 ways to deal with the cables, and which one suits comes down to the wall and whether you want mains power hidden as well as the signal cables.

• In-wall routing. HDMI, data and speaker cables dropped down inside the plasterboard cavity from the TV to the cabinet. Nothing visible. Needs a hollow wall with a clear path.
• Surface duct. A slim channel run down the wall, painted to match. The answer for brick, concrete and any wall with no cavity, and far tidier than cables hanging loose.
• Tidied and clipped. Cables gathered, shortened and clipped behind the unit. The quickest option, and fine where the cabinet sits directly below the screen.

What we don't do

Polytechnitis is straight about where the handyman line sits on this job, and these 4 things sit the other side of it.

• New power points, in-wall mains cabling or any electrical alteration
• Aerial and antenna installation or roof work to chase a signal fault
• Home theatre calibration, speaker tuning and AV system configuration
• Structural changes to a wall to carry a mount it was never built for

Where the handyman line sits across every job, not just this one, is set out in our guide to handyman vs licensed tradie in Canberra.

What it costs

TV wall mounting in Canberra typically costs $80 to $120 in labour for a straightforward job, and the total rises with the size of the screen, the type of bracket and the wall behind it. Polytechnitis quotes a fixed price before we start and charges no call-out fee, so the number you are told is the number on the invoice.

No Canberra handyman publishes a rate card for this work, so the figures below are the published industry guides, attributed and dated. They are a benchmark for setting a budget, not a quote.

Sources: Airtasker TV wall mounting cost guide, last updated 18 March 2025, and TV Pro's 2026 Australian price breakdown. Both were read on 11 September 2026.

The spread between $50 and $300 is not chaos, it is scope. The low end is a small screen on a timber stud wall with the cables left visible. The high end is a large screen on a full-motion arm, fixed into brick, with the signal cables run inside the wall. Our published range of $150 to $180 including GST is a typical Canberra metro job and a starting point rather than a cap, because it depends on the project and its scope. Send photos and we will give you a real figure. For what other handyman work costs around town, our handyman prices in Canberra page sets out the market data job by job.

Areas we cover

Polytechnitis mounts televisions across the 6 districts below, covering Canberra, the ACT and Queanbeyan, and the work changes shape by district. Gungahlin and the newer estates are mostly fit-out in homes nobody has drilled into yet. The unit-heavy parts of Woden Valley bring walls that need checking before anything goes up. Older Inner South and Inner North homes bring brick, battens and the occasional patched-over fireplace.

• Woden Valley, including Phillip, Lyons, Curtin and Torrens
• Belconnen and the surrounding suburbs
• Gungahlin, Ngunnawal, Harrison, Casey and Amaroo
• Tuggeranong and Kambah
• Inner South, Kingston, Griffith, Deakin and Red Hill
• Queanbeyan, Karabar, Jerrabomberra and Googong

Every suburb we cover is listed on our Canberra locations page. If a screen is one of several things on the list, tell us the lot when you call and our team will book enough time to clear it in one visit rather than coming back.