Hi,
I'm fairly new to this DIY lark and last night I attempted to hang a LCD TV wall mount for a friend. Basically there were 2 sets of instructions, 1 for brick/concrete walls and one for timber/plaster board walls. The position of the holes for the screws and rawl plugs is different depending on the make-up of the wall.
Now, the instructions were straightforward enough and I was confident I could complete the task, however I wasn't quite sure what type of wall I was dealing with. It's a new apartment and the wall in question was internal, situated between the living area and one of the bedrooms. The position where the mount was to be placed was also adjacent to another wall. I knocked on it and it seemed to be hallow and I used one of those stud finder devices to try and locate the timber to which I would affix the mounting (I was now working under the assumption that I was dealing with a plasterboard/timber wall).
The detector indicated where the studs were and I marked the positions for the screws and began to drill away. Now, once I had drilled the holes, I began to realise that there was apparently no timber stud on the other side of the plasterboard. Upon closer inspection it appears that there was a thick layer of plaster/plasterboard, a gap of some sort and then some brick/concrete.
Now, I don't know the first thing about how apartments or houses are put together these days, so would someone be able to tell me how walls are "generally" constructed and what is the most probable type of wall that I'm dealing with here? I'm wondering should I have opted for the concrete/brick instructions!! Please excuse my ignorance on the subject.
I'm fairly new to this DIY lark and last night I attempted to hang a LCD TV wall mount for a friend. Basically there were 2 sets of instructions, 1 for brick/concrete walls and one for timber/plaster board walls. The position of the holes for the screws and rawl plugs is different depending on the make-up of the wall.
Now, the instructions were straightforward enough and I was confident I could complete the task, however I wasn't quite sure what type of wall I was dealing with. It's a new apartment and the wall in question was internal, situated between the living area and one of the bedrooms. The position where the mount was to be placed was also adjacent to another wall. I knocked on it and it seemed to be hallow and I used one of those stud finder devices to try and locate the timber to which I would affix the mounting (I was now working under the assumption that I was dealing with a plasterboard/timber wall).
The detector indicated where the studs were and I marked the positions for the screws and began to drill away. Now, once I had drilled the holes, I began to realise that there was apparently no timber stud on the other side of the plasterboard. Upon closer inspection it appears that there was a thick layer of plaster/plasterboard, a gap of some sort and then some brick/concrete.
Now, I don't know the first thing about how apartments or houses are put together these days, so would someone be able to tell me how walls are "generally" constructed and what is the most probable type of wall that I'm dealing with here? I'm wondering should I have opted for the concrete/brick instructions!! Please excuse my ignorance on the subject.