Hi.
I'm moving to a new apartment. I plan to mount a TV on the wall (60"), it's a plasterboard wall but I'm worried it will give way. So I thought about cutting a hole perhaps 1.5 m wide and 1 m high in the plaster and putting a wooden board there. Now to my question,
do I need to reinforce the studs? (metal),
what kind of board should I use? The plaster is probably 13mm thick.
Is it possible to just fill in the seams?
How do I prevent swelling or cracking at the edges where plaster and wood meet? I will wallpaper over it later but thought of priming.
Final question, will it work or should I just drop the idea?
Best regards, Bob
I'm moving to a new apartment. I plan to mount a TV on the wall (60"), it's a plasterboard wall but I'm worried it will give way. So I thought about cutting a hole perhaps 1.5 m wide and 1 m high in the plaster and putting a wooden board there. Now to my question,
do I need to reinforce the studs? (metal),
what kind of board should I use? The plaster is probably 13mm thick.
Is it possible to just fill in the seams?
How do I prevent swelling or cracking at the edges where plaster and wood meet? I will wallpaper over it later but thought of priming.
Final question, will it work or should I just drop the idea?
Best regards, Bob
Why not just attach a plywood board painted in an appropriate color and large enough for the TV mount on top of the current drywall. As long as the plywood board spans a couple of studs with enough screws, it should be sufficient, and the board will be hidden by the TV anyway. The forces from the TV are mostly shearing unless you have a mount that you can pull out from the wall.
We thought about them, though we would preferably want it in the wall, so it looks like it's on the actual wall.
Okay, thank you for the help
But don't you think it's possible to put that kind of mesh over the seams? Then if there are cracks under the wallpaper, will they show through? Because I realized it becomes tricky to make the wall thicker, due to the baseboards, as the measurements won't match.
Well, with wallpaper on the wall it might work better, but use a paper strip, works better if you ask me, https://www.byggmax.se/färg/spackel/pappersremsa-p30724
Thanks for the answers, but I will probably follow Jonatan's. Because I have inquired a bit at work (a construction site) and they are skeptical about drywall anchors, I also have bad experiences with drywall anchors when they forgot to reinforce behind large radiators.