Hi,

I don't have one but... I am seeing more and more of these big flat screen
TVs being sold... and believe they can be hung on walls.. I can understand
how you would be able to hang them on solid 'tradtional' walls but what
happens if you have a Barratt plasterboard style house - surely those walls
could not take the weight of one of these flatscreens?

Any thoughts,

John.

John Smith wrote:

I don't have one but... I am seeing more and more of these big flat screen
TVs being sold... and believe they can be hung on walls.. I can understand
how you would be able to hang them on solid 'tradtional' walls but what
happens if you have a Barratt plasterboard style house - surely those walls
could not take the weight of one of these flatscreens?

Two options:

1. Find the studwork and screw to that.
2. Use 6x expanding plasterboard fixings, the ones with the cage setup.
More than enough.


--
Grunff

"John Smith" wrote in message
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Hi,

I don't have one but... I am seeing more and more of these big flat screen
TVs being sold... and believe they can be hung on walls.. I can understand
how you would be able to hang them on solid 'tradtional' walls but what
happens if you have a Barratt plasterboard style house - surely those
walls could not take the weight of one of these flatscreens?

Any thoughts,

John.


Why not? How do you think radiators, bookshelves, kitchen units etc are
hung?

Look he
http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects...asterboard.htm

"Ian Stirling" wrote in message
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John Smith wrote:
Hi,

I don't have one but... I am seeing more and more of these big flat
screen
TVs being sold... and believe they can be hung on walls.. I can
understand
how you would be able to hang them on solid 'tradtional' walls but what
happens if you have a Barratt plasterboard style house - surely those
walls
could not take the weight of one of these flatscreens?

Blu-tak.
Job done.

Seriously, as long as you can attach to the beams behind the walls, it'll
generally be OK.
Even the largest flat screens aren't much more than a hundred kilos,
and they are fairly close in to the wall, so the load isn't pulling
the wall out much.

Thanks all,

So, for example on a new built house, how close is the woodwork or 'studs'
(Vertical wooden battens right?) behind the plaster board? I had always
assumed that there were big gaps between them?

John.

John Smith wrote:

So, for example on a new built house, how close is the woodwork or 'studs'
(Vertical wooden battens right?) behind the plaster board? I had always
assumed that there were big gaps between them?

The plasterboard is screwed to the studs - no gaps. The studs are
usually on 400-600mm centres.

--
Grunff

John Smith wrote:
Hi,

I don't have one but... I am seeing more and more of these big flat screen
TVs being sold... and believe they can be hung on walls.. I can understand
how you would be able to hang them on solid 'tradtional' walls but what
happens if you have a Barratt plasterboard style house - surely those walls
could not take the weight of one of these flatscreens?

Blu-tak.
Job done.

Seriously, as long as you can attach to the beams behind the walls, it'll
generally be OK.
Even the largest flat screens aren't much more than a hundred kilos,
and they are fairly close in to the wall, so the load isn't pulling
the wall out much.

"John Smith" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I don't have one but... I am seeing more and more of these big flat screen
TVs being sold... and believe they can be hung on walls.. I can understand
how you would be able to hang them on solid 'tradtional' walls but what
happens if you have a Barratt plasterboard style house - surely those
walls could not take the weight of one of these flatscreens?

Any thoughts,

In my last house which had lath and plaster walls, I bolted the plasma
screens wall bracket to a piece of mdf, which in turn was screwed to the
vertical battens behind the lath and plaster - no problem in the year or so
it was in place.

Ash