Garden TV Employing Either A Plasma Enclosure or LCD Enclosure.
Article by Graham Gallagher
Fitting TV’s In Backyards is Increasing.
Watching a back yard TV in your very own home is priceless but you will will need either a plasma casing or an LCD enclosure to protect not only from the local climate but from vandals and thieves.
With the economic downturn biting hard last summer, many households decided to cut their holidays and spend the capital on their home to add value, now due to this increase in home improvements people see the benefit of creating outdoor living areas, as these can be used throughout the year relying on the location and country.
People are extending their household into the garden and back yard as this is sometimes an unused space, but with a little work this can be converted into an outdoor living space.
Producing a lounge in you backyard.One of the simplest ways is to measure the area you have set out and plan it out on a piece of squared paper, this way you can see how it looks before you commit to any building work and can rapidly modify things around.
You will require a seating area; these are easily built by laying a shallow slab of concrete, on this you can put breeze blocks to build up a seating area. Using the masonry blocks will create an added storage area inside the seat so you can store away items that would typically be left out and make your garden or backyard look untidy.
Remember to get the mix right between the sand and the cement, generally the mix should be 1 part cement to 3 part sand and don’t lay breeze blocks in temperatures less than 3 degrees Celsius, otherwise the water in the mix will freeze and expand causing the joint to fail.
Depending on the angle the configuration for the seating area is normally in a U shape and then in the middles of the U (the open end) a display can be mounted.
Defending an outside televisionDepending on the local community you may need to defend your TV from vandals and theives as well as the local climate.
But first things first, because of the price of plasma and LCD plasma tv costs plummeting so rapidly this now permits home owners to place a TV in their backyard, but a backyard Monitor needs protection from a variety of challenges.
Firstly, the weather, but I hear you say that there are weatherproof TVs on the market, yes that is right but unless your pockets are very deep the cost will inevitably stop the renovation moving forward. So the more cost-effective solution is to use a normal TV and put it in an waterproof casing. These cases protect the TV and satellite boxes from the local climate and theft.
The better LCD and plasma enclosure range offer anti vandal locks on their units which will certainly prevent the opportunist thief from taking your TV, these higher specified housings also come with thicker viewing windows up to 1/2″ this safeguards the TV from accidental damage and even stops a solid object being thrown at it by a annoyed thief.
About the Author
Over the past 20 years the author has developed a range of outdoor digital signage protective enclosures and founded LCD Enclosure Global who are the leading manufacturer of LCD monitor enclosures, they also offer an anti vandal range of LCD enclosure that provides all the protection and security needed for outdoor use.
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