"Roger Mills" wrote in message
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Arthur 51 wrote:

Hi all.
My house is a 100 yeard terrace and I won't have
any problem when it comes to using a wall mount for a big lcd telly.
But most of the timber framed new builds will have a medium sized
problem.
And I think that its people in new builds that are creating the market
for tv stands
(expensive and horrible)
So why doesn't some guy produce a concrete block that would fit into a
gap created
by the removal of 4 house bricks from an external wall?
eg.
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The part of the concrete plug that fite into this gap would be a bit
less than the width of
a brick to allow a 'brick facing' to be glued on to match the other
bricks.
The inner part of the concrete plug could be about 9" square or more
and about 3" deep.
So the method
1 Choose location between vertical timbers.
2. Cut out plaster board
3 Cut out insulation
4.Chip out 4 bricks.
5 Install concrete plug
6 Bit of infill around the inside of the concrete square.
7 Bit iof plaster skimming.
8 Glue on brick facings.
DONE!
Then, 'Mr New Build Owner' can fix his wall mount and add 2 square
metres of
floor space to his living room.

This would probably do for 80% of new builds.

Your thoughts please!

Arthur

My first thoughts were "Why the b___ h___ does he want to mount the telly
on the *outside* of the house?" - then I realised that you're talking
about timber-framed brick veneer houses - and that these concrete blocks
would take up the full thickness of the wall so as present a solid face on
the *inside". Is that what you mean?

If so, I doubt whether it would fit many situations. I don't know what the
usual spacing is on the uprights of the timber frame, but the chances are
that there will usually be a bit of timber in the way - or you will have
to move the telly to a less good position. If you're going to start
removing plasterboard, surely it would be better to fix some noggins in a
suitable place, and mount the telly off those? Added to that, I think that
your local friendly BCO might have something to say about using a solid -
uninsulated - lump of concrete in this way.

I don't know what proprtion of new build *is* brick veneer. ISTM that
equally popular is the use of brick/block cavity walls with sheets of
plasterboard fixed on the inside using dabs of plasterboard adhesive. This
type of construction also presents a bit of a challenge when mounting
anything heavy on the wall - but your solution wouldn't really help in
this case.
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Cheers,
Roger
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Isn't it just chavs that have them on the wall?