Mounting a monitor to a plasterboard wall

[mungylee]

Hi. Hope someone can help.

I want to mount a monitor on my wall, but I can't find the studs/beams in the wall. I've tapped it and it all sounds hollow. I've also used a stud finder and not found anything where I want to mount the monitor.

The monitor weights just under 6kg. Will just the plasterboard hold it?

Thanks!

[Chucklehead]

Probably... But.. buy a neodymium magnet off Amazon. A couple quid. Great at finding the screws that are holding your plasterboard wall to the stud. I use mine all the time.

[sherman]

Something like this could work instead
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B072JX2MLR/ref=cm_sw_r...

Or a few large winged plasterboard fixings or gripit fixings. You could even use them to fix a wooden baton or two to the wall and screw the screen to the batons.

[Teddy Lop]

A few 5mm brolly bolts is more than enough. Or spring toggles. Whichever you come to first.

[SEDon]

Yes, wall plugs can take a surprising amount of weight. https://youtu.be/GKzpAUwQuto?t=1027

[Jakg]

I mounted a monitor on a wall using self drilling plasterboard fixings. Couple of years later it's not come off yet...

3.5KG 24" monitor on a small mount.

[knk]

I used these to mount a 55" TV on a cantilevered arm.
Solid as a rock.
https://www.geefix.com/

[Nickyboy]

knk said:

I used these to mount a 55" TV on a cantilevered arm.
Solid as a rock.
https://www.geefix.com/

Was just about to say the same

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07GSF4QQG/ref...

My bathroom cabinet is mounted on them and weighs around 30kg and i've just mounted 2 radiators in our conservatory with them.

[TimmyMallett]

Self drill cavity plugs. I've used them to hang a lot bigger than 6kgs.

https://www.toolstation.com/rawplug-dra02-metal-se...

[paultownsend]

TimmyMallett said:

Self drill cavity plugs. I've used them to hang a lot bigger than 6kgs.

https://www.toolstation.com/rawplug-dra02-metal-se...

These. I use these for most things if going into plasterboard. So easy to you.

[PositronicRay]

paultownsend said:

TimmyMallett said:

Self drill cavity plugs. I've used them to hang a lot bigger than 6kgs.

https://www.toolstation.com/rawplug-dra02-metal-se...

These. I use these for most things if going into plasterboard. So easy to you.

A book shelf, with some false tomes.

[Mr Pointy]

paultownsend said:

TimmyMallett said:

Self drill cavity plugs. I've used them to hang a lot bigger than 6kgs.

https://www.toolstation.com/rawplug-dra02-metal-se...

These. I use these for most things if going into plasterboard. So easy to you.

These are the worlds crappiest, bodgiest fixing. There are plenty of far better alternatives.

[TheRainMaker]

If you really really can’t find anything solid to fit the bracket too, these are the only fixings I would use to mount a monitor.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/rawlplug-hollow-wall-an...

Don’t use them if you are going to use a bracket with an arm, it will just rip out.

[devnull]

Mr Pointy said:

paultownsend said:

TimmyMallett said:

Self drill cavity plugs. I've used them to hang a lot bigger than 6kgs.

https://www.toolstation.com/rawplug-dra02-metal-se...

These. I use these for most things if going into plasterboard. So easy to you.

These are the worlds crappiest, bodgiest fixing. There are plenty of far better alternatives.

Definitely agree. Those things are utter ste.

[Nickyboy]

devnull said:

Mr Pointy said:

paultownsend said:

TimmyMallett said:

Self drill cavity plugs. I've used them to hang a lot bigger than 6kgs.

https://www.toolstation.com/rawplug-dra02-metal-se...

These. I use these for most things if going into plasterboard. So easy to you.

These are the worlds crappiest, bodgiest fixing. There are plenty of far better alternatives.

Definitely agree. Those things are utter ste.

Trouble with these kind of fixing is it's dependant on the quality of the plaster in the board as that's pretty much all it's gripping onto. The Geefix fittings mentioned above don't fix to the board but to the acrylic mount you feed in behind the board so it's weight is spread onto the board as apose to the hole the fitting is in.

[Teddy Lop]

Nickyboy said:

devnull said:

Mr Pointy said:

paultownsend said:

TimmyMallett said:

Self drill cavity plugs. I've used them to hang a lot bigger than 6kgs.

https://www.toolstation.com/rawplug-dra02-metal-se...

These. I use these for most things if going into plasterboard. So easy to you.

These are the worlds crappiest, bodgiest fixing. There are plenty of far better alternatives.

Definitely agree. Those things are utter ste.

Trouble with these kind of fixing is it's dependant on the quality of the plaster in the board as that's pretty much all it's gripping onto. The Geefix fittings mentioned above don't fix to the board but to the acrylic mount you feed in behind the board so it's weight is spread onto the board as apose to the hole the fitting is in.

its like a form of godwins law when talking fixings in the DIY forum that someone always ALLWAYS ALLWAYS turns up and suggests fking screwits, you could be asking how to attach the Clifton suspension bridge to the bleeding cliff face and some screwit bodger would be along to say he did one in in his spare bedroom last year and it hasn't fallen down yet.

[scottyp123]

Nearly all the weight on the TV bracket will be straight down, so its just a matter of friction, as long as the bracket is reasonably well fixed to the wall it will grip the wall no problem, the fixings don't need to support the whole weight of the monitor. I've used this type before when fitting TV brackets, they have the advantage over toggle bolts by not falling into the wall if you have to remove them for any reason.

[youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErGh-jflboo[/youtu...

Also most TV and monitors are light as a feather nowadays, so unless its a 10 year old 50" plasma then you shouldn't have any problems fixing no matter what the wall is made out of.

[Up_North]

Fischer UX 8x50 UX plugs will do the job fine.

[shih tzu faced]

Nickyboy said:

Was just about to say the same

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07GSF4QQG/ref...

My bathroom cabinet is mounted on them and weighs around 30kg and i've just mounted 2 radiators in our conservatory with them.

These fixings look really interesting. I've seen a couple of YouTube videos of them and they can certainly hold a lot of weight. Haven't tried them myself yet though.

I still really like the good old brolly fixings. I've tried Grip-Its but just couldn't get along with them (to be fair others do swear by them though so personal preference I suppose).

[Gareth79]

Another one is https://www.gripitfixings.co.uk/
6kg is really nothing to get worried about though.