On Friday, 31 August 2012 21:33:57 UTC+1, Dave Newt wrote:
Hi,



Any help gratefully accepted!



I've been trying to attach a speaker bracket to a wall in the house

(1895ish Victoria terrace). The wall is the main front wall of the

house, so is presumably brick and plaster. I think some of the top layer

is probably lime plaster, as it looks like it, though we recently had it

reskimmed with pink and redecorated.



Pic of speaker and bracket:

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7264/imag0259x.jpg



Pic of wall: http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/323/imag0258m.jpg



When I was drilling the holes for this, the top inch or so did seem

kinda crumbly and the drill was making larger holes than intended! The

presence of the occasional pebble in the mixture also helped the drill

veer somewhat. It was fixed up there with the supplied screws and wall

plugs (and I used the 6mm drill bit suggested in the instructions).



Close up pic of damage (you can see another pebble there):

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/1594/imag0260g.jpg



So basically, the bracket (and speaker) fell off the wall within a

minute of being put up. Obviously, as well as patching up the walls, I

still need to get the bracket up there and keep it up!



Does anyone have any suggestions on what filler and/or fixings to use? I

could either use holes in the same locations again or go a couple of

inches in either direction if new holes are a better idea.



I wouldn't mind quite so much if we hadn't just paid to have the room

reskimmed and and decorated. (And there was me thinking the lath and

plaster wall would be the difficult one - but I found the stud :-)



Cheers for any help!



Dave

Another method is to chop away the grotty plaster and fix a piece of wood to the brick, using several screws. This way you decide where the screws go, into the brick and not into the cement between the bricks. (Which could happen if you're trying to match up the holes in the bracket). Then it's easy to screw you TV bracket into the wood.

Richard