Hanging a TV from a wall need help.

Hi Orgers,

Would you be able to give me any pointers on hanging a tv?

I have the correct bracket and the tv weighs 8kgs it's a 24" led tv, so not heavy but as I live in house were the Walls aren't plasterboard as far as I'm aware they are like compressed cardboard (essex board), I think I found the dowl with a magnet sticking to screws or nails intermittently down a straight line down the wall, but not sure what to secure it with?

Any ideas?

Eh ?
You've got egg crate walls ?
What dowel have you found ?

Well it's weird our Kitchen is platerboard but living room is compressed cardboard type walls, I used a magnet and detected the nails holding up the walls so guessing it's a wooden dowl, but im not sure what screws to use?

sounds like you found the 3"x2" or 4"x2"stud work - suitable length wood screw will be fine but you will probably need to use a suitable hollow wall fixing for the rest of the mounting bracket (B & Q etc should sort you out for that) The compressed cardboard you refer to sounds to me like (can't remember the proper name) like a plasterboard sandwich ( 2 sheets of board with a concertina type spacer).Hollow wall fixings for these too.

You might of caught a stud, but most houses I've worked on that have egg crate walls don't have studs at regular centres because the boards come in 8x4 sheets.

I've advised this before but try driving in a no.10 screw x 50-60 mm long into the stud you've found, if it is great you will have at least one side in a good fixing.
Get some H/duty plasterboard fixings for the other and some clear building silicone, put a generous amount on all the flat areas that will contact the wall, screw in all the fixings you have and leave it for a few hours.
I promise you when the silicone has gone off it will not go anywhere

Originally Posted by specialone

You might of caught a stud, but most houses I've worked on that have egg crate walls don't have studs at regular centres because the boards come in 8x4 sheets.

I've advised this before but try driving in a no.10 screw x 50-60 mm long into the stud you've found, if it is great you will have at least one side in a good fixing.
Get some H/duty plasterboard fixings for the other and some clear building silicone, put a generous amount on all the flat areas that will contact the wall, screw in all the fixings you have and leave it for a few hours.
I promise you when the silicone has gone off it will not go anywhere

Is that better than no more nails?

Originally Posted by SUPERSTARDJ01

Is that better than no more nails?

Trust me mate, silicone is something I use a lot, I have even fixed sinks on the wall with it amongst other things, it's brilliant.

the wall is wall papered, will this stop the silcone from taking grip?

Originally Posted by SUPERSTARDJ01

the wall is wall papered, will this stop the silcone from taking grip?

Depends on how well your wall paper is fixed, in all honesty if your fixings are done correctly, the silicone is an extra backup so not that important if the paper is sound.