Hi guys
Looking for some advice. Mate wants his 50" plasma on the wall - no bother I thought. Until I discovered his partition walls are all aluminium framing. Is there any reasonable way to attach a wall bracket to this type of frame. I was shocked to find this in a house, thought it would just have been timber. I was thinking maybe I could nut and bolt it on, but would love to hear folks tips on this one.
Cheers folks
SantaUK
Is he a chav? Chav's tend to want them over their fireplace.
Persuade him to get a decent stand for it.
I thought the Chavs bought stands for them. ;-)
By the way, the plural of Chav does not need an apostrophe ...
... unless the writer is a chav. ;-)
Seriously, get your mate to do some research. If he *really* wants to spend his time straining his neck at something half-way up his wall, then fair enough; If not, get him to buy a stand and watch with (sitting) eye-level central on screen.
I would give this very serious thought first, and then some more, before committing to doing it. Plasma TV sets of that size are very heavy, and I'm not convinced that an ally framed wall would take that sort of load in a direction that it's not designed for, even if you could get a good fix directly to the framing rails ...
Arfa
not as heavy as the usual CRT types my 42" is lighter than the 32" wide-screen it replaced
Fairy Snuff, we wall mounted ours, (due to having a trio of Siamese cats which tend to break anything not nailed down) and haven't really noticed it being a problem.
Having said that though, I find my neck hurts more when I have to look
*down* at a screen - which seems to be the recommended option?Lee
Not really the point here though. One doesn't normally hang a CRT set on a wall. In fact in general, nothing much heavier than a mirror used to get hung on a wall before the advent of flat screen TV sets, which are an awful lot heavier than a mirror ...
When ally framed walls were invented, I doubt that the creators were speccing for outward-pulling loads of 30 kg or more.
Arfa
I have seen plenty of crt types on walls admittedly not in many homes wall cabinets where every where when we looked at the house I am in and some were huge defiantly bigger than a mirror
No, you hang a shelf on the wall and put the TV on that. Metal shelves designed expressly for that purpose are widely available. The wall carries the weight whichever way you do it.
Well, ok, if you say so. I was just venturing an opinion based on living in and working on all kinds of houses with different construction methods for the last 40 years or so, and working with and lifting flat screen TV sets since they appeared. If the OP can get a good fix direct to the frame, or better, the wall behind if that is a solid brick or block type, he may be ok, but I'd hate him to come down in the morning to find that his new 3 grand pride and joy was on the floor, along with the wall it was hanging on ...
Arfa
SantaUK wrote in
If it fails to hang three times, does it get a reprieve?
How about quality struts from floor to ceiling fixed at the top and bottom (ceiling joists and floor, and through the alum's framing behind. Then hang the TV off that.
I wouldn't trust it even if you seemed to get a good fix - once someone starts stabbing the buttons or roughly handling the plugs and leads, I think you will have a pile of junk.
A mate had one fitted professionally when they were new on the market. The fitters drilled right through the wall of his Victorian house and bolted through to a metal plate on the other side. It was an adjustable bracket though.
Nor do they need to.
MBQ
Nor do they need to.
MBQ
Not sure I'm quite following that ...
Arfa
Again, if you say so. Amongst my many friends both past and present - and some of them have 'Bohemian' ideas with regard to decor, to say the least - I can't think of a single one now or past, that has ever had a TV set bigger than a portable, on any kind of wall shelf. I certainly wouldn't consider putting my 37" CRT Tosh, on any kind of shelf free-fixed to a wall, no matter what it was made of ...
I'm not sure quite where you are finding all of these "widely available" shelves for large CRT TV sets. I had a quick look on the 'net, and couldn't find a single one, even at the places which specialise in TV stands and mounting brackets. I can't think either of any of the shops that I do repairs for, ever carrying such an item.
Arfa
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Gravity pulls downwards.
MBQ
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Gravity pulls downwards.
MBQ
As the centre of gravity will be a distance (small maybe) from the wall, this will create a turning moment around the bottom of the bracket - effectively pulling the top fixings from the wall.
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Yes indeed, and that was the point that I was making. If the set is fixed to the internal frame of the wall, that turning moment will try to bend that frame outwards, and I am not sure that that type of wall would stand a force in that direction, without succumbing and bending.
Arfa
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