Built from just up the road
Patch Me If You Can is based in Mapperley, so a media wall here is about as local as our work gets. Whether you live on one of the streets east of Woodborough Road, out along Mapperley Plains or over towards the Arnold border, calling round to see the room is easy. That visit matters more for a media wall than for most plastering jobs, because the design starts with the room itself: where the sofa sits, where daylight from the window lands on the screen, and where the existing sockets and aerial point are. If you are not sure yet whether you want a fire, a soundbar shelf or just a clean recess for the TV, that can all be worked out while we are there.
Fitting the design to a Mapperley house
A good share of the housing east of Woodborough Road dates from the early 1900s. Houses on Blyth Street and Querneby Road began from about 1900, and over the next twenty years new streets spread out as far as Porchester Road. Houses of that age often have a chimney breast in the front room with an alcove either side, and that shape suits a media wall. The breast can be boxed in and brought forward to take a TV recess and an inset electric fire, while the alcoves become shelving niches with LED strips tucked into their top edges.
Close by in Mapperley Park, the Victorian and Edwardian houses on tree-lined avenues tend to have higher ceilings, so a full-height wall with a deep recess and tall slots either side sits comfortably without crowding the room. Mapperley Park is a conservation area, but those controls mainly concern the outside of buildings. If your house happens to be listed, check with the council before any internal alterations.
From frame to finish
The frame goes up first, in timber or metal studs, fixed to floor, ceiling and wall and sized around your TV and fire. The fire opening follows the measurements and clearances in the manufacturer's installation instructions, so it pays to choose the fire before anything is built. Routes for the power, HDMI, aerial and LED cables are planned inside the frame, so the finished wall shows none of them, and a qualified electrician makes all the electrical connections. After that the frame is boarded, the edges are beaded and the whole wall is skimmed, ready for you to paint.
Talk it through
Ring 07877 353120, or send photos of your room and any media walls you like through the enquiry form or to Patchmeifyoucan@outlook.com. We work seven days a week, 7am to 5pm.
