Afraid to Mount TV bracket

GrandpaKip wrote:

Travelin2 wrote:

kelleyaynn wrote:
Our travel trailer, a Starcraft 21FBS has an area marked on the wall where a TV mounting bracket should go. It is on an exterior wall. My husband is afraid to mount the TV bracket because the screws are longer than the wall is thick. He thought about using a piece of 1 x 4 to put between the bracket and the wall, but he is still afraid of drilling to the outside of the camper.

I don't really want to spend the money to pay the local RV dealer to install the TV mounting bracket. Any suggestions on what to do? I could only find info on installing the bracket on an inside wall in previous forum posts.

Thanks for any help!

Kelley

Borrow your girlfriends husband to do it. Yours is broken.

Not helpful and not nice.

Lynnmor wrote:
Many brands of trailers have a piece of thin steel sheet metal just under the wallboard. Use a strong magnet to find and outline that piece of steel and then mount the TV using sheet metal screws that only penetrate the wall by about 1/2".

If there is no piece of sheet metal to be found, then you would need to use a stud finder and use screws that are less than wall thickness.

Before you do anything, we should know if you have laminated sidewalls with aluminum framing, or "stick & tin" walls with wood studs and aluminum siding.

Huntindog wrote:

Ralph Cramden wrote:

Huntindog wrote:
A block of wood, such as 3/4 plywood can be used to span the distance between studs or other suitable attachment points. Use lag bolts to attach the wood to the wall, and bolts to attach the TV to the wood.

It might have to be a large piece. On a laminated wall panel the aluminum "studs" are not on any standard spacing as in a house. They could be as much as 4' or more apart. They only put them where absolutely necessary, most times the window openings dont have perimeter framing except on large windows. The luan panels do not necessarily break on the studs either. That's why they sandwich a piece of 20 gauge sheet metal between the inner plywood panel and foam core for mounting items.

In reality those panels are super strong as long as the adhesive bonds and something does not delaminate or the foam pulls apart.

I did not know that the construction type had been settled... One person asked about it, but the OP did not answer.

Still spreading the load over a large area with a piece of plywood can work well.... Plywood comes in 4 x 8 sheets, so that is not a limiting factor... Depending on the layout of the TT, the plywoods lower edge can rest on a solid surface, such as a countertop, or even the floor. One is really only limited by their imagination, or the ability to think outside of the box.

Ralph Cramden wrote:

Huntindog wrote:
A block of wood, such as 3/4 plywood can be used to span the distance between studs or other suitable attachment points. Use lag bolts to attach the wood to the wall, and bolts to attach the TV to the wood.

It might have to be a large piece. On a laminated wall panel the aluminum "studs" are not on any standard spacing as in a house. They could be as much as 4' or more apart. They only put them where absolutely necessary, most times the window openings dont have perimeter framing except on large windows. The luan panels do not necessarily break on the studs either. That's why they sandwich a piece of 20 gauge sheet metal between the inner plywood panel and foam core for mounting items.

In reality those panels are super strong as long as the adhesive bonds and something does not delaminate or the foam pulls apart.

Huntindog wrote:
A block of wood, such as 3/4 plywood can be used to span the distance between studs or other suitable attachment points. Use lag bolts to attach the wood to the wall, and bolts to attach the TV to the wood.

Travelin2 wrote:

kelleyaynn wrote:
Our travel trailer, a Starcraft 21FBS has an area marked on the wall where a TV mounting bracket should go. It is on an exterior wall. My husband is afraid to mount the TV bracket because the screws are longer than the wall is thick. He thought about using a piece of 1 x 4 to put between the bracket and the wall, but he is still afraid of drilling to the outside of the camper.

I don't really want to spend the money to pay the local RV dealer to install the TV mounting bracket. Any suggestions on what to do? I could only find info on installing the bracket on an inside wall in previous forum posts.

Thanks for any help!

Kelley

Borrow your girlfriends husband to do it. Yours is broken.

kelleyaynn wrote:
Our travel trailer, a Starcraft 21FBS has an area marked on the wall where a TV mounting bracket should go. It is on an exterior wall. My husband is afraid to mount the TV bracket because the screws are longer than the wall is thick. He thought about using a piece of 1 x 4 to put between the bracket and the wall, but he is still afraid of drilling to the outside of the camper.

I don't really want to spend the money to pay the local RV dealer to install the TV mounting bracket. Any suggestions on what to do? I could only find info on installing the bracket on an inside wall in previous forum posts.

Thanks for any help!

Kelley