wall mounting an 15' LCD-pls help

This is entirely uneducated...but I've hung heavy mirrors on plasterboard walls (in student rents ;)) with plasterboard rawl plugs...a few decent rawl plugs may be sufficient for a piddly 15"er, although don't quote me :eek:

edit: don't like the look of that arm though, looks to exacerbate the problem. Find the stud?
 
Just put the screws into the stud then as it will be more than sturdy enough to support a 15" LCD. You can buy a hidden wire/stud finder from the likes of B&Q for a tenner or less and i s an essential household DIY tool if you aint got one.
 
Tattooed said:
hi,
Thanks for the replies :) Where I want to put the telly-there is no stud wall :(
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How is the plasterboard attached to the subwall then? If it's just dot and dab you should be able to drill through it to the brick or aero block behind and use that substrate as your mounting surface. Albeit aero block aint much cop at holding stuff either, so hopefully you have brick or stone behind the plasterboard.
 
Ive just mounted my 32inch LG on a plasterboard wall, basically modern houses have plasterboard, dabbed onto breeze block if its an outside wall or dabbed onto thermalite if its a internal wall. What i did was use 10inch sleeve anchor bolts to go through the plasterboard, through the gap between the board and the breezeblock then into the breezeblock itself by about 7inches.

I Did a lot of reading and got lots of advice and this was the best solution.

If your trying to mount it on a internal wall into thermalite blocks then its more tricky, as thermalite is nowhere near as strong as breezeblock.
 
Alternatively, you could buy a real house!

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:p :D
 
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