Mounting a TV to the wall

[ciphergoth]

I bought this wall bracket for this TV. I want to attach it to a brick wall. I'm a bit disturbed by how close together the top and bottom wall fixings are - it seems like it will work hard to pull the top fixings out of the wall. I find myself wanting to somehow attach vertical strips of metal with holes in to the bracket at either end making an

Comments

[_nicolai_]

That looks like a fairly solid design; my main concern with that would be making sure the fixings are firmly anchored in the wall. I would be inclined to use masonry fixings, not screw-and-rawlplug. This sort of thing: http://www.screwfix.com/p/rawlplug-rawlbolts-m6-x-70mm-pack-of-5/60234

If your walls are made of nice strong regular bricks (you lucky sod) then I suppose something like a screw and rawlplug would be fine.

[ciphergoth]

OK that's great - and good call on the rawlbolt, thanks!

Still seems really weird to me that it's so narrow! The bolts would have so much less work to do if they were further apart vertically.

[zotz]

Yes, but the maker would have to shell out for more steel, more packaging and more transport cost. Why bother, if the design's adequate?

[_nicolai_]

There's also an aesthetic design constraint - people may view the screen from an oblique side angle, not straight on, so the bracket should be somewhat smaller than the TV (especially vertically, as it will likely be mounted above some viewer's eye point) to be hidden behind the TV. I will argue that this is the main reason, not trying to save manufacturing cost, since even expensive TV brackets are that way.

[drdoug]

I agree with all of this comment: the bracket will stay up fine so long as the fixings stay in the wall. Screw and rawlplugs is perhaps a bit chancy (depending on your walls); rawlbolts as above will work very well.

I'd personally use hammer fixings, which are somewhere between the two - but only because I keep them in stock and wouldn't need a specific purchase.

[julietk]

also on the rawlplugs: the ones provided with the device will almost certainly not be adequate, as IME they're invariably made of cheese. Because why provide a *decent* rawlplug when you could save fractions of a penny per item by providing rubbish ones? (Grah.) We have a big tub of good quality ones & automatically chuck out the 'free' ones.

But if you're using something more substantial anyway then no problem.