TV Bracket

[Howdya do that]

SWMBO bought one of those swing arm TV brackets that you attach to the wall. My concern is how to attach it. Our steel framed house and I saw the frame when the house was being built. That tin they call steel doesnt seem very strong to me. I am worried that it may either buckle the wall and frame or ordinary screws might just pull out.
Any suggestions on how best to mount it?:confused:

[Grahame Collins]

I am guessing the mounting plate is something in the order of 150mm square and overlaps the stud width (75mm perhaps ). Spread the load over the width of a couple of studs ( 450 crs or thereabouts with timber -no idea for steel frames) Use some boards to straddle the stud widths.Screw mount your bracket to the boards. A woodie solution ?
Grahame

[Master Splinter]

You could try using standard gyprock spring toggles, but put them through the gyprock and steel stud rather than the gyprock alone. This should spread the load so that the stud doesnt deform...too much.

I'd be tempted to put a wooden plate on the wall just to help spread the load.

The steel frame houses I've seen built have had wooden studs installed where there was something heavy going to be attached (toilet cisterns, kitchen cupboards etc).

It sounds like a marvelous excuse to get rid of the CRT TV and get a lightweight LCD screen.

[Rossluck]

I am worried that it may either buckle the wall and frame or ordinary screws might just pull out.
Any suggestions on how best to mount it?:confused:

I installed one of these recently, and I had in mind that recently a tv sitting on one of them fell on a relative when the bracket broke away from a timber stud wall (she's OK). I installed ours in our son's bedroom in a brick wall, and tossed the small spagetti and screw system that came with the unit and used proper concrete anchors and maxibond.

My suggestion is that you buy some high tensile bolts (say 5mm thick) that go through your bracket and right through the stud to emerge on the other side of the wall. On that side you can dig around the gyprock around the hole. If you have managed to get the length right, the bolt should poke through just enough to slip on a washer and the (Nylock) nut against the steel stud. Then you could patch the gyprock and paint it over.

I know this seems over the top, but if you have kids running around ....