Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 Oct 15, 2008 5:16 pm Hi guys, I know I haven't been around for a long time, but after our Pakenham dream fell through, we ended up buying established and recently moved in.
Now there is every chance that I will just get Matt or Rod to do this, but I still have some questions and photos to explain! Essentially I want to mount the Plasma (42") on the fireplace, now you can see in the photo that it is a real fireplace, with a coonara in place, but I believe that the smoke just goes up the chimney, not up a metal pipe. I am concerned for two reasons: 1/ if you drill too far through the chimney could you cause heat / smoke problems from the bracket mounts? and 2/ from the second photo you can see the outside of the chimney, where it becomes a lot thinner, I would assume that there is no studs around the edges of the chimney (possibly wrongly assumed) the thinnest part starts about 600mm above the mantle and is 700mm wide. Further to this thought, eventually I will be covering a lot of these wooden walls with plasterboard so a little damage will be covered up anyway. I will also want to keep all the boxes over where the access points are and run a repeater. I am also open to suggestions if someone has a better thought, so please give 'er! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Paul Re: Fireplace mounting questions 2Oct 16, 2008 7:30 am Mounting the plasma above that mantle shouldn't be a real issue. The dynabolts required only go about half way into the depth of the bricks (and you've got the added thickness of the wood there, although you'd just get slightly longer dynabolts to compensate for that) so you won't make any holes that go all the way through into the chimney.
You're biggest challenge will be getting cables to run from where the gear currently sits over and around to where you want the plasma - hiding them inside the walls with the way the room/house currently is will be extremely difficult to say the least. If you are intending to put plasterboard over these wooden walls then you very well may have to run the cables in front of the wood to be covered later by the plaster. Update from me! Couldn't find the trimmer - not sure if there isn't one simply because the eave is so narrow. Went ahead with the spring toggles and it all worked out… 7 5924 Hi all, My first post, we are building a house and can’t decide the layout of the lounge room. We have a large N/W facing window and are wanting to have a wood slow… 0 13895 No the fireplace doesn’t work. It’s been enclosed. I’m not sure what was removed, as it was done quite some time ago - well before what I can see with photos online… 2 11719 |