Afraid to Mount TV bracket
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 a...
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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.
Thank you for that piece of great info. I wanted to put a small tv in the bunkroom, but was concerned about where to put the bracket. With the info on the metal plate. I checked the back wall, and there was a piece of metal that I can mount a tv bracket on. Great info. thanks for that.
