here’s the deal.
have a customer that wants to get a flat scren TV …
and the only “good spot” to put a TV in their new decorating plans is right in front of the living room window … he’s OK with that … she isn’t.
so he came up with the idea of a flat screen that folds down from the ceiling …
like the little moniter’s they put in the headliners on pimp my ride … and every other freaking car show nowadays …. ok .. same as they put in the trunk too …
his idea … rig up the hardware from an attic access stairway?
as I look around … he might be onto something. I thought I just saw the exact thing I’m looking for … a factory made fold down unit …. for various full size flat screen tv’s … but I just spent way too much time tonight reading thru most of my recent mags … and haven’t come across it. So far .. no luck on the web either.
it’s getting late and I’m getting lazy …
don’t have to meet the painter tomorrow till after 10 … but I’m giving up for tonight.
Anyone have any ideas?
Gotta hit crutchfield before hitting the bed.
need a ceiling mount …. flip/fold down mount … that’ll hold the weight of a “regular” size flat screen/panel TV …. and will fold up kinda/sorta tight to the ceiling when need be.
Or … a TV lift cheaper than $1200.
I can build under the window …
Jeff
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Much like this .....
they gotta get some better search links!
I started going back to the beginning and looking for a cheap lift .....
http://www.auton.com/content/gallery/plasma_flip.html
Jeff
Jeff, the one you got looks like the right deal.
I had a request for one that lifted out of the floor,I found it by searching at http://www.4specs.com
The only thing I see wrong with the ceiling one is that my neck is starting to hurt just thinking about watching it.Vince Carbone
Recliners to match...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Spanish Pipedream (AKA Blow Up Your TV)
She was a level-headed dancer on the road to alcoholAnd I was just a soldier on my way to MontrealWell she pressed her chest against meAbout the time the juke box brokeYeah, she gave me a peck on the back of the neckAnd these are the words she spokeChorus:Blow up your T.V. throw away your paperGo to the country, build you a homePlant a little garden, eat a lot of peachesTry an find Jesus on your own Well, I sat there at the table and I acted real naiveFor I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeveWell, she danced around the bar room and she did the hoochy-cooYeah she sang her song all night long, tellin' me what to doRepeat chorus:Well, I was young and hungry and about to leave that placeWhen just as I was leavin', well she looked me in the faceI said ";You must know the answer.";";She said, ";No but I'll give it a try.";And to this very day we've been livin' our wayAnd here is the reason whyWe blew up our T.V. threw away our paperWent to the country, built us a homeHad a lot of children, fed 'em on peachesThey all found Jesus on their own
....Just an old hippie...
...<g>...Accidentally In Love
"The Counting Crows"
Nobody like John Prine!
They make'em. Go to this site: http://www.plasmatvbuyingguide.com/plasmatv-questions/plasmainstallation_1.html
You might want to try a "Google" on "Plasma TV Mounts. I found this the other day.
http://store.videomountstore.com/pltvmo.html
here's the basic answer... this idea is dumb...
back the wife.. it's her house.. he only thinks it's his.. he just sleeps there, eats there and maintains it...
find some other way to get his tv in the house.. like building an addition
Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
it was her idea to mount it from the ceiling ...
he wanted to just set in on a cab in front of the window ... "like everyone else in the world" ....!
Said he's gonna pay more money so she can flip it out of the way once then end up leaving it blocking the window for the rest of their life.
at least he's honest.
Jeff
ok.... then i'm back with him... she's gonna be sorry.... so , he'll be sorry..
put it on a cabinet in front of the window so they can move it to where she really wants it laterMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
whatteryoudoinhome ?
go to work...Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
I was waiting for the mechanic to call so I could hopefully go reclaim my Jeep ... then make it north to meet the painter before he left ... which was really a ruse so I had an excuse to catch the home owner and pick up the check he promised to have waiting for me ....
was a good plan till the mechanic said he'd have the truck ready in the am as opposed to the pm.
had to run in reverse direction.
back home now ... caught the painter at the red light ... he was coming out as I was going in ... caught the HO in the driveway ....
caught the bank in time.
all the while driving the now fully functional Jeep.
van's sitting in the mechanics driveway ... we did an even swap.
maybe by next week I'll have two fully functioning .... fluid drip-free vehicals ... both of which are fully inspected?
maybe I'll drive past my van tonight as we head back there to get the kid from the grandparents!
I'm getting dizzy ..... been going in circles all day.
almost done.
Just wait till next week ... home most days and I might actually get some work done?
Jeff
Hey Newf do you like "My head's in mississippi" by Z-Z Top ?Scribe once, cut once!
I was never a Z-Head. Or ZZ-Head, Or would that be a Top-Head. Some how I missed them on the way through the 70's and 80's. Like a lot of other things, LOL
Just press "Play":
My Head's In MississippiI'm shufflin' thru the Texas sand, but my head's in Mississippi. I'm shufflin' thru the Texas sand, but my head's in Mississippi. The blues has got a hold of me. I believe I'm gettin' dizzy. (Spoken: Help me now.) I keep thinkin' 'bout that night in Memphis, Lord, I thought I was in Heaven. I keep thinkin' 'bout that night in Memphis, I thought I was in Heaven. But I was stumblin' thru the parking lot of an invisible seven eleven. (Spoken: What was I doin out there) Where's my head baby Somewhere in Mississippi. Last night I saw a cowgirl. She was floatin' across the ceiling. And last night I saw a naked cowgirl. She was floatin' across the ceiling. She was mumblin to some howlin' wolf about some voodoo healin'. (Spoken: Mmm Baby.)Accidentally In Love
"The Counting Crows"
"it's her home, he only thinks it's his home"
Once again Mike, you have the correct answer to today's puzzler!
and to think it only took me 31 years to figure that out..Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Yep, it's definitely her house...if he belives otherwise he ain't been divorced yet.
I believe they make pull down (motor down) screens for projection type TVs. Somebody correct if I'm wrong... like that wouldn't happen :-)
I went over to a guys new house who definitely liked his tech toys and had the $ to support his tastes. Had an awesome home theater with a projection TV.
A TV screen in front of a bright window sounds painful to me.
God never gives us small ideas.
Sojourners: Christians for Justice and Peace
I'll let them know some home inspector in ohio thinks they should redesign their living room.
Much like myself Bob ... I bet they don't care.
maybe they'll think outside the box and invent some drapes?
Jeff
If you can't relocate the tv, simply video tape the view through the window before hanging the tv.
Then, leave the tv in place, and run the video. Presto - will make the tv all but disappear.
They could take it so far as to put in a sunny video on a rainy day, or, better yet, they could get creative and play sunrises or sunsets on the beach, snow capped mountains, etc. Think of all the possibilities.
Good luck,
Jason Van Dame
Ya might try this Jeff:
A friend, well former friend, but that's another story, and I were talkin' one day about the best energy efficent home. It's cold up here in igloo land, ya know. So his plan was to do away with ALL the windows, and put in Video screens instead. You could have pics of outside, daytime all the time. Or a beach scene. Out outer space. Change it all the time. Call in that it's a storm day.The walls would be R-20, or what ever the rest were, sometimes R- 60, if you're really nuts. Now, means of egress may be a bit tricky, but no plan is perfect. Now there is a plan to sell them.
Back when weed was fun, LOL
Keep you stick OFF the ice.
Accidentally In Love
"The Counting Crows"
Oh jeff. I am so sorry.
I've received emails from all over the country asking me how I could have been so stupid as to even hint that the big Buckup might not be doing something right.
There is no excuse, of course.
A brief explanation, though, as to how I committed such a stupid gaff.
You see, based on you messages over the years,I never thought that you would ever feel the need to ask a question, so I didn't even bother to look to see who had asked this one.
And obviously, I travel with stupid people, because I've rarely seen a TV in front of window, but obviously all of the people whose houses I have ever been in don't have the advantages of SW PA Gate education.
Of course, kids are selected for the PA Gate program based on potential, not on accomplishment or fulfillment of their possible promise.
God never gives us small ideas.
Sojourners: Christians for Justice and Peace
Add me to the list of millions of respondee's.
Ain't no way I'd ever put a TV in front of a window. Especially in the LR.
If there is no other place to put it, then they have the wrong house.
move the window.........
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Yeah...
The true costs of the new toy.
the masses are right Bob.
I don't value your input no matter the subject.
now we're both on the same page ....
I have a perfectly good home inspector that actually lives in the same state ... so there's pretty much no need. Thanks anyway.
Bye.
Jeff
Jeff,
When are ya gonna join WAG, or do you want to keep doing this for the rest of your time here?
Email me and I'll consider you for membership after confering with the Grand PooBah!
EricI Love A Hand That Meets My Own,
With A Hold That Causes Some Sensation.
i'm gonna need that translated ...
Jeff
>>I don't value your input no matter the subject.
That is a relief, given what you have posted here over the years.
God never gives us small ideas.
Sojourners: Christians for Justice and Peace
"That is a relief, given what you have posted here over the years."
Really? In construction techniques?
I'll put my knowledge and quality up against most any home instector.
Now go away and find someone in the tavern to fight with.
Your friends emailed support to you ... that should be enough.
Jeff
>> >>"That is a relief, given what you have posted here over the years."
>>Really? In construction techniques?
Pretty much everything you post is a cluster buckGod never gives us small ideas.
Sojourners: Christians for Justice and Peace
if I pretend to agree with U will U leave the room?
email all your friends back ... see if that passes the international test.
while we're on the subject ... be useful and post some pics of your work?
add some good new ideas to the business folder ....
things of that nature.
Jeff
>> be useful and post some pics of your work?
OK, here's a little project inspired by one of the threads in one of the building mag forums:
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God never gives us small ideas.
Sojourners: Christians for Justice and Peace
Edited 10/17/2004 5:11 am ET by Bob Walker
in the right section idiot.
stop messing up areas out side the tavern.
there's more than U and me here ...
Jeff
>>stop messing up areas out side the tavern.
48783.18God never gives us small ideas.
Sojourners: Christians for Justice and Peace
I don't want your phone number Bob ...
Jeff
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