Mounting Using Elephant Anchors- We use a combination of studs, lath as well as Toggle bolt to make the installation secure when studs and lath are not available. Now, it’s time to hang your QLED OLED TV. Give it some good horizontal and vertical tugs, listening and watching carefully for any movement or signs of instability. If you are having trouble finding the wall stud locations, you can use a stud finder to help you with your job. Studs are more solid, and you can mount a TV on them. Instead, you should try to place the TV over the studs in the wall. Hopefully, you’ve now got a solid, secure mount on your wall. You can use a concrete screw on hard walls, but the same does not apply to softer plaster walls. This is the second potential pitfall with plaster – being too aggressive with the screwgun can crush the plaster and weaken the overall mount. From here, you should be able to follow the mount instructions for drilling a pilot hole, and then placing your lag bolts.īe careful not to torque the bolts too tight – listen very carefully for sounds of the plaster cracking. You don’t want to be screwing into the plaster itself, only the stud. Target works with a company called HelloTech, and charges 100 to. A traditional 3-coat plaster is typically 7/8 thick and when you add in the 1/4 wood lath that supports the plaster wall, you have a wall that is more than 1 thick Compared to today’s most common drywall thickness of only 1/2, that is a difference worth noting. Yes, ideally you need to locate studding/uprights in the wall, but you can use butterfly/toggle clips that push through and open up inside to spread the. Now, widen out the hole in the plaster with a masonry bit the same diameter as the lag bolts you’ll be using with your mount (see the mount instructions). There’s a 100 surcharge for mounting a set on brick, stone, or plaster wall, or if you want the TV mounted above a fireplace.
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