TV wall mount – cheap or expensive?

Looking at wall mounting my massive TV.

Why is there such huge price differences?

Cheap ones start at about £20 but you can pay £200 for something doesn’t look that much different and is rated for a similar load.

Should I go for the middle ground and spend about £70?

Or are the cheap ones just fine?

All very much depends if you just want the TV on the wall and don’t need to pull it off. I generally go middle of the road for anything bigger. We’ve two 42″ plus TV’s mounted on swivel beackets in the corner of two rooms – mainly so we can move the TV’s, so went with sturdy brackets rather than the cheap stuff. Previously, one TV was just mounted flat to a wall, and we used a rail sustem – two rails screwed to the TV, and another bracked to the wall. TV then just clipped on and you tightened a couple of screws on the bottom to hold it on. Worked well and allwed some adjustment and was a doddle to fit.

I bought an Amazon Basics mount (£16) for a small telly (50” and fairly light) which has been fine

big telly (bastard heavy) hangs on a trolley/stand thing which was about £60 from Amazon. Very sturdy (have wheeled it out into the garden!)

really don’t think you need to spend loads unless you want it on an arm so can pull it out/change the angle etc.

Cant go wrong with a Sanus mount available from Screwfix.

Have used sanus too, seem well made. You can tweak the levelling with adjustment screws

I’d pay more attention to  how/what you’re fixing the bracket to the wall with – even the most basic brackets will be strong enough. Bought an Amazon one a few years ago – it’s been fine

Nothing shows my age more than someone describing a 50” television as ‘small’

Our ‘big’ 42” television is mounted on a pull out bracket that is rated  at about 10 times its weight, mostly because the distance I wanted it to come out. It was about £45 IIRC in 2018

Look at the weight of the mount before you decide. Some seem to be as heavy as the TV themselves.
Plus look at the fixings , plasterboard walls are hard work to get a very strong fixing into.
We screw fix , sell lots of sanus ones . They are well made and probably over engineered if anything.

I been looking at the Sanus ones.

Regarding the fixings, after using chemical anchors for 1st time on another job, it will be M8 studs into a stone wall.

Probably this one.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/sanus-tv-wall-mount-full-motion-47-70-/2969j

We have our 65″ mounted on one of the below. Using long rawbolt type things and it holds perfectly fine.

https://amzn.eu/d/0fRbQoI5

Also used chemically held studs for the original 60Kg 42″ plasma and that was fine, although only mounted flush so no real pulling force on the fixings.

If you want to go through plasterboard and into brick/block, these are great fixings.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/corefix-connect-metal-plastic-100-heavy-duty-dot-dab-wall-fixings-10mm-x-95mm-24-pack/344hg

@twonks – What are the dimensions of the plate that is secured to the wall?

What size are the fixings holes?

Thanks.

I’d recommend getting/using your own fixings with most mounts.

Sorry @gobuchul I can’t remember, it’s 5 years since I put the TV up.

Those on Amazon are much of a muchness so there might be one of them with dimensions listed.

I have used the Corefix fastenings I also linked to with other brackets in the house though, so their size is suffice – requires a 10mm masonry drill bit.

edit – As above, I don’t think I’ve ever used fixings that come with the mount, on any TV (apart from the ones that fit bracket to the screen of course)

While we’ve got the experts in, what’s the most basic mount available?

We want something for up to 65″ to sit in a long rectangular living room so need for tilting or twirling or anything.

Walls are made of cheese though.

It depends on if you need to move the TV off of the wall. If you want to mount the TV  flat to the wall then the cheap ones and the expensive ones are roughly the same. If you want to swivel the TV or have it mounted several in off of the wall then I would go for an expensive one, especially if the TV is heavy or expensive

Nothing shows my age more than someone describing a 50” television as ‘small’

I had exactly the same thought, glad I’m not out in isolation on a limb there. Nothing helpful to add otherwise; our big telly (42″, I think) sits on top of a wooden table. And the small one in the kitchen diner (32″) is on a cheapo flat/wall mount from Curry’s.

The stuff on Amazon etc is fine. If it’s just to the wall, no movement needed, the ones where you fix the frame to the wall, then have two ‘runners’ fixed to the TV mount work really well, are simple and easy to fit and remove should you need to.

The main isue is fitting to the wall with any mount, especially the ones that can extend and move – that’s thats really important – don’t use what’s supplied, get rawl plugs/plasterboard plugs you are used to using/known quality – it’s always the fitting to the wall that is the key point.

What size is huge?

My 65″ LG came with an LG wall mount. Used those corefix fixings as we’re dot and dab and they’re great.

In the old house we had a 43″ on a cantilevered arm so it could come out at an angle. That was an Amazon special and was fine, although fixed into proper brick. Based on the construction and weight of the wall mount it would have easily handled the 65″ TV . In fact I tested it by hanging my 200lb weight of it, and it was fine.

Some others allow the TV to slide from side to side and also have an arm on it..

I’d pay more attention to how/what you’re fixing the bracket to the wall with

The Boy got a man out to mount a (relatively) TV. It was pissed. When I visited it set off my CDO so I said I’d re-hang it. I pulled the existing bolts out with my fingers.

Wall > mount is WAY more likely to fail than mount > TV IMHO.

We have our medium sized 80in TV on a mounting bracket from b&m think it was £25

I’ve got two  wall mounted TVs, both on fixed Sanus mounts  – they’re nicely finished and seemed well made. From memory they have a lot of different mounting holes and there is some levelling adjustment in the bit that actually hangs on it.

Wall > mount is WAY more likely to fail than mount > TV IMHO.

absolutely – I was building the house and installed stud work in the right place but a quick search says a 75″ Samsung is about 35kg.  I wouldn’t want to hang that on a few rawlplugs on plasterboard.  Personally I’d want it fixed to the studs.

But there are various types of fixing for plasterboard that claim pretty impressive load capacities –

eg these are supposedly good for 70kg(!)

These good for superloads you get from cantilever / extending mounts – http://deltaleigh.co.uk/rigifix/

I have those gripit mounts in the kitchen for shelves, they do hold a decent amount. Same shelves in the living room got upgraded to Dryline Pro fixings.

That’s static loading though and all going down the way though.

I bought this from Amazon for my 65″ Sony. I could happily sit on it at full extension. Well, not happily because it wasn’t very comfy but it was solid!

Could have easily spent £300 on something similar but I just don’t see the point.

That’s mounted to blockwork with Rawl bolts. The expanding metal type ones.

The one I have upstairs for a 40″ Samsung was about £9 delivered from Amazon. Hung on plasterboard using toggle clamps and it’s absolutely fine. Not sure I’d want to sit on that one though.

If I was hanging a heavy TV on a pull out mount to plasterboard, I’d bite the bullet and remove the plasterboard to install some studs/ noggins in the right place.