hanging a plasma

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My neighbour wants to hang a massive 46inch plasma on his kitchen wall and wants me to bury the cables for him in the wall. Now I think that the walls are metal stud partition and only very thin so a couple of questions. Will the metal stud partition be made of just verticals or will it also have noggins in it as well on the horizontal? If it has then I will need to cut out a biogger section to fish the cables through..Also, what would be the best way to hang something of this weight on what is just now just a piece of plasterboard. I am thinking cut the plasterboard out between 2 of the metal studs then screw 2 battens of timber across horizontally into the metal studs. I can then screw the tv bracket straight into these once I have put new plasterboard back in place and skimmed.

Your thoughts please or is there an easier way of doing it that hasn't come to me yet?

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locate the metal studs. cut down a piece of ply nice and square and paint it the same colour as the wall, use inch tech screws and fix to the metal studs through the plasterboard then hand the tv bracket off that.
 
Metal stud usually are just vertical but you could cut part of it out and slide a bit of ply behind the plasterboard and fix to that.
 
check out the instructions with your tv. You may well dig your self in a hole here mate.
 
Yeah, cut a 24" hole out of the boards where the telly is going - see what you're up against first mate :RpS_thumbup:
 
Will be vertical only. Work out were mount will be on wall. Cut out plasterboard behind this area (well a bit smaller) then fix ply patresses behind the plasterboard, then re plasterboard ply then fix tv mount
 
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