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possible to put tv on top of fireplace

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amol

Lifer
well, my parents' 23 year old RCA is going to bite the dust soon, and they want to bring the 45" mitsubishi in the family room up to their bedroom to replace it

they want their new tv to be HDTV flat panel, since the family room is small and irregularly shaped . . .

i've been eyeing the 45" Flat Panel LCD from Sharp . . . my parents were wondering if they could mount it on the wall . . .

only problem is, the only place they can put it is the wall on top of the fireplace

and we use that fireplace

so is it okay to put a tv up there? does anyone else here have it like that?

EDIT: got some pix (thats a painting on top of the fireplace)

view of fireplace
side view
another view
 
i forgot to mention that its drywall between the chimney and the room . . . let me go take a pic of the fireplace right now
 
Actually, a regular customer of mine has a plasma mounted in the mantle above his fireplace. It was a total custom job and i believe they needed quite a bit of insulation, but its flush mounted in the wall right above the fireplace 😀
 
Well come to think of it, we do live in florida so he prolly doesnt use the fireplace much 😀
 
A lot of people do this with their plasmas, but I don't understand why. Here are the bad things as they occur to me...

1) For most fireplaces, this seems like it would be way too high for a normal viewing distance.

2) Heat (duh)

3) mounting - you need to be able to SECURELY fasten the TV to the wall - those things weigh anywhere from 50-120 lbs depending on the size. (most 42" plasmas seem to weigh around 65, I think). This usually means that you want to securely fasten the bracket to two or more wall studs - which you probably won't have if there is a chimney behind the wall?

And last but not least, it just seems silly. If you want to focus your room around a fireplace, great. If you want to focus your room around a TV, great. But to try to do both at the same time seems like it cheapens the fireplace and puts the TV in a bizarre location.
 
wtf i cant find my digital camera . . . . . . . . cant take pix of it . . .

the house is pretty new . . . built 1991

its hard to describe the fireplace though . . . .
 
Originally posted by: flot
3) mounting - you need to be able to SECURELY fasten the TV to the wall - those things weigh anywhere from 50-120 lbs depending on the size. (most 42" plasmas seem to weigh around 65, I think). This usually means that you want to securely fasten the bracket to two or more wall studs - which you probably won't have if there is a chimney behind the wall?
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the tv i'm looking at is 48lbs
 
mounting - you need to be able to SECURELY fasten the TV to the wall - those things weigh anywhere from 50-120 lbs depending on the size. (most 42" plasmas seem to weigh around 65, I think). This usually means that you want to securely fasten the bracket to two or more wall studs - which you probably won't have if there is a chimney behind the wall?
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Actually you can still hang up a Plasma with no studs since you can use these special anchors, forgot their name. The only bad thing is you can't remove them without causing huge holes in the walls, they have a name that reflects this.
 
Originally posted by: MySoS
mounting - you need to be able to SECURELY fasten the TV to the wall - those things weigh anywhere from 50-120 lbs depending on the size. (most 42" plasmas seem to weigh around 65, I think). This usually means that you want to securely fasten the bracket to two or more wall studs - which you probably won't have if there is a chimney behind the wall?
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Actually you can still hang up a Plasma with no studs since you can use these special anchors, forgot their name. The only bad thing is you can't remove them without causing huge holes in the walls, they have a name that reflects this.
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Big azz screws?
 
Originally posted by: flot
A lot of people do this with their plasmas, but I don't understand why. Here are the bad things as they occur to me...

1) For most fireplaces, this seems like it would be way too high for a normal viewing distance.

2) Heat (duh)

3) mounting - you need to be able to SECURELY fasten the TV to the wall - those things weigh anywhere from 50-120 lbs depending on the size. (most 42" plasmas seem to weigh around 65, I think). This usually means that you want to securely fasten the bracket to two or more wall studs - which you probably won't have if there is a chimney behind the wall?

And last but not least, it just seems silly. If you want to focus your room around a fireplace, great. If you want to focus your room around a TV, great. But to try to do both at the same time seems like it cheapens the fireplace and puts the TV in a bizarre location.
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like flot said, that alone will drive you nuts eventually. You'll be bending your neck backwards everytime you watch tv...very uncomfortable.
 
Originally posted by: Raincity
You need to consider that you will need to run the power and video feed cables behind the drywall.
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well, there would only be 2 cable . . . power and the cable to the media station . . .
 
Originally posted by: amdskip
I would never ever mount something that heavy without using the studs. Drywall has very little strength.
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Actually if you spread the weight out it can hold a great deal of weight.
 
Being that I sell the things, there are a decent amount of people who do this. Most who do use the ones with a seperate AV center so there are only 2 cables going to the TV itself.
 
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