RE: Re: Mount a plasma on a metal stud plasterboard wall

["Neil Ball" <neilball@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It may not be what you want to hear, but when I had a requirement to hang a
plasma on a suitable wall I ended up opening up the wall and reinforcing
the
vertical studs with timber and then installing ply across the full width of
the bracket to give something solid to hang the bracket/screen to. My worry
was not so much a local failing in the fixings but that the entire sheets
of
PB might come away from the studs and in this case the wall seemed to have
far to much flex for my liking so I was sceptical of the strength of the
stud top & bottom fixing. Therefore the only safe option was some major
surgery. Mind you the screen was a 50" model on a pull out and twist
articulated bracket so the forces acting on the fixings were much higher,
but better to be safe than sorry!!

As a cautionary note a friend recently returned home to find his plasma in
pieces on the living room floor with vertical tracks torn through the
plasterboard where his cables went up the wall after his bracket broke and
the plasma fell. Not only a ruined plasma & wall but also damaged
furniture
beneath where it landed - not good! It might be messy to open up the wall
to
reinforce but at least you know it will be safe long term!!

Neil B.

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> From: Jeremy Aston [mailto:jeremyaston@y...]
> Sent: 07 April 2005 01:01
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Mount a plasma on a metal stud plasterboard wall
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> Hi all,
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> I have been asked to mount a plasma onto a metal stud plasterboard
> wall.   It's a 42" screen with a weight (not inc mount) of around
> 31kg.  It is either a Hitachi or NEC panel btw - not sure which one
> the customer will go for yet.
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> Has anyone done such a thing and what approach did you use?  Is it
> safe to fix to the board and through a couple of upright studs or is
> it better to fix a ply board first and fit through that?  If it is
> possible then what are the best fixings to use?  Are there some 3rd
> party mounts better for this sort of thing than others?
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> Many thanks in advance.
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> Jez
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