I got a call from a client who had just bought a new HDTV and wanted to use a TV mount to hang it on an outer wall of his apartment ( the common wall is the wall that two adjoining buidlings share ). He asked me if it was easy enough for him to just go buy a stud finder and hang the HDTV mount himself.

I said no.

Why?  The common walls of Brownstone, Limestone, Queen Ann, Brick Tenements usually don’t have studs. Most of these walls are comprised of an outer wall of brick, then cement, then plaster. There might be wood lath in there, but that’s not enough to hang a HDTV on.

I do a lot of HDTV installations where the homeowner has already tried to hang the TV, and the wall has some big holes in it. Or the wall mount has fallen off the wall. Not good.

I use Hilti sleeved 4 inch masonry bolts, a hammer drill and percussive masonry drill bits to mount an HDTV. So give me a call, and I’ll come over and mount your TV, OK?

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