Never trust a TV Bracket

[chazzy2501]

Bait like title, expecting a disaster! Ha!

 

Anyhow installing a new 75" interactive 60KG tv with this bracket and I'm glad I double checked.

 

[Zourous]

Nothing more upsetting than getting a wonky screen up. No doubt you're screen is level, but what about the rest of the room?

[SamanthaD]

I'd not be trusting that bracket to hold the weight, or those screws!

[FN-GM]

I opened this up expecting to see a picture of a smashed TV on the ground.

[Jawloms]

We had a bracket for an 86" TV which said to make sure the screws went in to the wall at least 10mm.

[jthompson]

 

If it does fall off the wall, please post some pics.

[SamanthaD]

We had a bracket for an 86" TV which said to make sure the screws went in to the wall at least 10mm.

This wasn't yours was it?

[Jawloms]

This wasn't yours was it?

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I think that picture says more about the wall than the screws!

[hardtailstar]

This wasn't yours was it?

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Looks like an art installation.....

[Jaan]

It hasn't technically fallen off the wall though..... the wall has fallen off the building!

[jthompson]

That TV is definitely level, though.

[round2it]

Pfi school here so cant put a nail in the wall wiithout filling in 6 forms and selling your soul to the devil.

 

I get the site team to install the brackets (if it falls off they are responsible)

 

Always use good quality bolts and plugs as many as the bracket will accept.

 

Dont use the garbage sent with the units your asking for trouble.

 

I always cable tie the bracket and tv mount just in case.

Edited May 25, 2021 by round2it

[Squelch]

Came expecting carnage, left disappointed.

[eddyc]

Came expecting carnage, left disappointed.

 

I can fulfil your need for carnage...

 

A contractor working the other side of the wall was trying to drill through the wall and into the trunking below the interactive TV.

 

I suggested taking the trunking cover off and drilling from the classroom out.

 

I left the contractor to it and was sheepishly called about an hour later to come to the room because the TV “exploded by itself”.

 

Not a good day that one!

 

 

[robyholmes]

Did they get into the trunking? Or still miss, lol

[Squelch]

I suggested taking the trunking cover off and drilling from the classroom out.

 

That's awesome. I am fulfilled!

[eddyc]

Did they get into the trunking? Or still miss, lol

 

They re-drilled from inside the room the second time around and the job was complete.

 

We manage to salvage the IQ module that the screen itself had to be scrapped. We ended up having to pursue an insurance claim with the contractor.

[Oaktech]

I've recently put a load of 60kg 86" up... The fixings I put in for that were industrial chem fixings as the blockwork is lightweight and would have cracked with rawlbolts. We tested each fixing with a simulation of the whole weight of the screen for 30 minutes.

 

No carnage here.

[DanTheLacky]

I can fulfil your need for carnage...

 

A contractor working the other side of the wall was trying to drill through the wall and into the trunking below the interactive TV.

 

I suggested taking the trunking cover off and drilling from the classroom out.

 

I left the contractor to it and was sheepishly called about an hour later to come to the room because the TV “exploded by itself”.

 

Not a good day that one!

 

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Is the floor a different level on the other side of the wall? Can't understand how they got that so wrong (not that it would have been better if they drilled into the bottom of the screen instead of the middle).

[chazzy2501]

oh my goodness, again but worse!

 

[Squelch]

Never trust anything at all at any time ever. If you do that you'll never go wrong.

[Jawloms]

Never trust anything at all at any time ever. If you do that you'll never go wrong.

 

Are we supposed to trust this?

[FN-GM]

Are we supposed to trust this?

 

Touché!

[Mickquinn]

have install well over 1000 of the activ panels, as a lad said to me there is level and then real world level, sometimes you have to offset them as the whole room is slightly off level, but yeah never ever use them built in levels on any mount , still don't know how a bubble can lie😄😄

[jmak]

have install well over 1000 of the activ panels, as a lad said to me there is level and then real world level, sometimes you have to offset them as the whole room is slightly off level, but yeah never ever use them built in levels on any mount , still don't know how a bubble can lie[emoji1][emoji1]

Check your spirit level regularly...