TV mounting and furniture assembly in San Mateo

Mounting on post-and-beam walls in 19th Avenue Park

19th Avenue Park is an Eichler tract built from 1953 to 1955, and the City describes those houses as post-and-beam designs, often with a central atrium or courtyard and clerestory glass above street-facing walls. In a post-and-beam house the posts and beams carry the roof, so a wall may not have studs every 16 inches. Elsewhere in San Mateo, the wall may be plaster over lath or plain drywall.

The framing gets located before any drilling, and the anchor matches what is actually there. A tall bookcase gets an anti-tip strap. In a condo or apartment (42.1% of the city's units are in buildings of five or more), check the HOA or lease rules first. A new outlet behind the screen means wiring, and in San Mateo that part is quoted through our licensed partner Bay Builder Inc.

Worth knowing about San Mateo

• 19th Avenue Park is an Eichler tract built from 1953 to 1955. The City describes Eichlers as post-and-beam houses, often with a central atrium or courtyard and clerestory windows.
• About 70.4% of the city's 42,641 housing units were built before 1980 and 9.5% in 1939 or earlier. The 1950s are the largest single building decade, at 21.3%.
• Hillsdale, started in 1939 and resumed in the late 1940s, has one-story Minimal Traditional and Post-War Minimal houses. Shoreview built 1,200 homes in 1949 alone.