With Chief’s New Mount, You Don’t Need to Mount TV Between Studs

Chief Manufacturing has a mount that is so new it doesn’t have a name yet. The product solves several installation problems, the main one being that you don’t need to mount your TV right between two wall studs.

“Most of the time you have to work around the stud placement,” says Chief spokesperson Sara Schiffler. You can wind up having to move furniture or resort to awkward TV placement.

The new Chief mount, however, gives plenty of leeway for positioning a TV to the left or right of studs.

“Before, you had limited lateral shift,” says Chief spokesperson Sara Schiffler. “Now you can move it all the way to the left.

Like virtually most adjustable mounts, the new unit comprises two pieces: a backplane mounted firmly to the studs, and an adjustable element that holds the TV. The adjustable piece can slide right and left across the backplane, but only to a limited degree.

With the Chief product, though, the backplane holds two horizontal mounting bars that can slide completely left or right of the backplane. The TV snaps onto those bars.



The product solves a few other products as well: leveling the TV. Many mounting systems are unforgiving, requiring you to install the backplane pretty darn straight across two studs. The Chief product, though, has leveling screws built into each side of the mount, allowing installers to raise and lower each side of the screen as required.

The company even created a special level that snaps onto the sliding bar on the mount. No more balancing a bulky level on the mount or television. Genius.

“Installers aren’t perfect,” Schiffler reminds us.

Finally, the new design allows users to mount component shelves anywhere beneath the flat screen.
By summertime, Chief expects to have the new backplane available for most of its line of fixed-and-tilt mounts.