Metal in the wall - what could it be?

David_a · 2011-05-21T22:02:35+00:00

I live in a newly built apartment building and was planning to mount a TV on the wall. As usual, the walls are drywall, so I was planning to use molly bolts. The first hole was easy to drill, but the second hole hit something hard inside the drywall. I discovered I had hit metal. I checked the plans to ensure it wasn't a water pipe or anything else, and according to the plans, there shouldn't be anything in the wall, which is not load-bearing. I thought it might just be a metal stud and tried to drill through it, but now I'm having doubts because it's very difficult to drill through. I've probably been drilling for 15 minutes and have only penetrated about 3 mm into the metal with a metal drill bit. According to my stud finder (a cheap one from Clas Ohlson), the metal object is about 40 cm wide, so it's not a stud. The metal object is also very stable, not wobbling at all, which I would expect a stud to do. Does anyone know what I've encountered and how to successfully mount a TV with this in the wall?

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23 May 2011 at 5:21 PM

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23 May 2011 at 5:21 PM

pbengtsson said:
I'm a bit curious about how one finds a 10mm beam in a non-load-bearing wall. That's not a small beam; I would check a bit more on why this is in the wall, or maybe not now when it's been drilled into.

I would leave it alone

p.s. all threads usually go off track ...

Last edited: May 23, 2011

Metal in the wall - what could it be?

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