Hanging a TV from a wall need help.

Hi,

Gettinga TV for myself and the wifes bedroom it's only a 24" and LED so should be light as it's only 4.5 cm's deep, anyway our walls aren't plasterboard but more of a compressed cardboard mush stuff, so I best getting a bracket with a wide surface area like below-



Or a ceiling one screwed into the beams?

just make sure the clearance from the wall is enough.

You can get specific plugs that screw into the wall for stuff like Drylining/plasterboard/Mush type stuff . I remember them being very coarse threaded aluminium bodies that screwed into the wall , then you mounted your bracket to them with screws that go inside the aluminium plugs . A 24" shouldn`t be too heavy but I would be tempted to maybe have a tether coming off the TV to a screw/plug in the wall so that if the bracket does fail then it will drop on the tether which may reduce or stop a fall completely .

What's behind the dry lining stuff? If you've got thermalite blocks behind it, you'll be better off drilling into that and using long hammer-in fixings.

If you don't have anything solid, and you're fixing to the "mush" be very aware of the effect of leverage if the tv is any distance from the wall.

[Ratty]

I fitted my 32" Sony to a cardboardy type wall using metal screw-in plasterboard fixings, with no problems.

Here's a link to a bargain for you.

Ratty

If the house is woodframed with carboardy walls, there should be joists usually running vertically every 16-18'' tap along the wall and you should be able to find them. You would then need to put up a baton up say 1/2'' ply or something screw it to the joists, then screw the tv bracket too the ply. Had to do this in my brothers house!!!

cut a patress (rectangular piece of ply) and fix to the vertical joists in the wall, screw as many times to the joists as possible, paint to match wall, fix tv bracket to ply wood with big ol wood screws, this way you can use any ol bracket you like, and you can probably swing your trapeze from it too.., oh for the avoidance of doubt, grip fill the fecker to the wall as well as the screws

Right, just for info, the walls you refer are known as 'egg crate' walls.
There wont be studs every 18inches, the generally have them at 4ft centres as the egg crate panels are 8x4 ft.

As its only a light tv, HD plasterboard fixings will ok, if you get lucky you might cop one stud.
If you want some extra strength, get some clear building silicone and glue as much of the bracket to the wall as well as the fixing screws, trust me, that wont come off once cured, i fix sinks on the wall using clear silicone sometimes and never had one fail ever.

Originally Posted by specialone

i fix sinks on the wall using clear silicone sometimes and never had one fail ever.

Bodger

Originally Posted by xXBADGERXx

Bodger

In my defence, its normally cheap crap sinks that customers have supplied that are supposed to be flat on the back but the mouldings are like a banana, try and pull the sink to the wall with bolts and it will crack the sink.
So, silicone helps in that situation and i did say sometimes