Mid 80's house upstairs room requires a TV bracket on the wall. All options and forums already explored!Could use a ceiling bracket secured in the loft, bracket needs to be hidden though ideally.If I dry lined/dot and dabbed plasterboard on top would the usual p'board fixings hold a 32" TV and relevant bracket? ps, Mr Stramit, thanks, thanks a lot sm4164
If it's dot and dab, use long fixings into the actual wall. It it's stud work, pickup to vertical uprights, drilling the bracket if required.
Maybe I should have clarified the issue? Stramit is a 60mm thick board used between the upright studs. It's made of compressed straw. These boards are about 120mm wide and are faced with paper and skimmed, very thinly I would add. I haven't dry lined it yet, I was after any info on possible fixings to 'hang' a TV first. The studs are nowhere near where I want them! And to put a 'cross member' between then would end up with a bale and a half of straw on the floor! Thanks anyway.
So your plasterboard will sit up against the strammit boards, with no void behind? If so, I would recommend using GRIPIT fixings (go google) - I have used these once before for a monitor in an IT dept, and they kept falling inside the wall before I had chance to get the screw in - If the strammit is tight to the plasterboard behind, I guess they cant do that, although getting the wings to move may be tricky. If the wall isn't huge, I would consider plying it, and then attaching your plasterboard over the ply. This is often done in commercial applications and kitchens to ensure fixings are available anywhere. http://www.gripitfixings.co.uk/ http://www.diynot.com/forums/electrics/gripit-fixings.372854/