Basement TV

I have three bays connected with three doors. I built half a box about eight inches smaller than the bay and fastened it into the center bay. That gave me a horiizont shelf above the tv for DVD player and sat box and I added a power strip there.

I bought a telescoping wall mount on EBay and mounted a 32" on the vertical section. I can still store bag chairs etc behind it from the adjacent bay doors. I covered the plywood with gray outdoor carpet from Lowes. It looks like felt or trunk carpet. Spray on glue.

I can pull the tv out and chage viewing angle based on sun glare, patio layout etc.

I mounted a pair of powered Bose speaker adjacent to the tv for music ipod etc but rarely use it.

I hang a beach towel on it when stowed while moving.

We do it the easy way. I just bring along a three port tV divider, two long sections of RG cable, and one short RG cable.

This allows me to hook up the three port TV divider with the short RG cable going to the pedestal, one of the long RG cables to the CABLE TV outside port, and the other long RG cable gets throwed under the trailer. With this setup we can use our 22-inch VIZIO HDTV outside under the awning sitting on a table hooked up to the RG cable that was throwed under the trailer...

Roy Ken

I did not mount mine. It rides on the top bunk until I get to the campground. The rv came with a cable outlet and 120 outlet in the basement so it takes 10 minutes to hook up my 32" tv. It also keeps me from hitting the tv with items underneath when loading or if something shifts.

I open the door, grab the remote and watch tv.

Being that we travel for extended periods the basement is pretty much full. There are the usual connections for TV and a bracket on a wall.

However, we choose to carry our 3rd TV under the bed and not take a chance of damage with it being mounted in the basement with all our 'stuff'.

Takes only about 10 min. to setup outside so not a big deal. When we are setup for 4 months in AZ for the winter the TV stays in the basement as we have more room.

Opposite experience. I used to keep it inside and got tired of shuffling it out, connecting everything, then unhoooking it all and carry it back in.

Plus I scratched it a few times carrying up and down the DP narrow stairs.

It has its own protected area and hasn't gotten any damage in its bay.

We tailgate football so it gets watched most weekends in the fall.
Much easier to open the door and turn it on.

I saw a thread here a year or two ago where a guy made a sliding, folding frame. The tv folded up horizontally so it would stow near the top of the bay flat then pull out and fold vertically for watching.

I'm not that ingenious or ambitious.

Biggest thing to look for is the least glare and most matte finish. We literally walked through Best Buy with our cell phones on flashlight to see which one had the least glare.

For us, it was a 22" Vizio which has worked very well for us.