Hi,
I'm pretty/totally clueless when it comes to houses and building so please bare with me...
We've just moved into a new build house (2005) and I'm trying to find the studs to hang an LCD tv.
From what I've managed to find out by talking to a few people who talked far too quickly using terms I found hard to understand: It's a timber framed house with plasterboard on studs then sheet (I'm assuming this is something like OSB?) EDIT: Just found out this is called Sheathing, not Sheeting then a membrane then block with render on the outside. Internal walls will I assume be just stud with board on them.
The external walls are filled with millions of small polystyrene balls and the internal walls with the yellow stuff you see in attics.
The wall I'm trying to attach the tv to is an external wall.
I can see the joins/nails between the boards and they are 1200mm apart. If I tap these areas they sound like there are studs there and my finder also spots them. All good so far.
I can also tap and find studs 600mm between these joins with nails visible. But my finder never spots these.
Q1) Would I be right in assuming that the board has some type of lining on the back that is preventing the finder from seeing the middle studs but the gaps between the boards let it find them?
Q2) 600mm is 23", isn't this much wider than normal for stud spacing?
Q3) If I am to feed wires down behind the board from the tv to the socket on this and internal walls, will the insulation pose a problem. How would I prevent an avalanche of small balls from pouring from the wall if I cut holes for cable plates, would I need to drill small holes around the area and inject expanding foam or something?
I also plan to whip off a socket and have a poke around behind with a mirror and torch to try and get a better idea of what's behind there.
Thanks for your help, it's appreciated.
I'm pretty/totally clueless when it comes to houses and building so please bare with me...
We've just moved into a new build house (2005) and I'm trying to find the studs to hang an LCD tv.
From what I've managed to find out by talking to a few people who talked far too quickly using terms I found hard to understand: It's a timber framed house with plasterboard on studs then sheet (I'm assuming this is something like OSB?) EDIT: Just found out this is called Sheathing, not Sheeting then a membrane then block with render on the outside. Internal walls will I assume be just stud with board on them.
The external walls are filled with millions of small polystyrene balls and the internal walls with the yellow stuff you see in attics.
The wall I'm trying to attach the tv to is an external wall.
I can see the joins/nails between the boards and they are 1200mm apart. If I tap these areas they sound like there are studs there and my finder also spots them. All good so far.
I can also tap and find studs 600mm between these joins with nails visible. But my finder never spots these.
Q1) Would I be right in assuming that the board has some type of lining on the back that is preventing the finder from seeing the middle studs but the gaps between the boards let it find them?
Q2) 600mm is 23", isn't this much wider than normal for stud spacing?
Q3) If I am to feed wires down behind the board from the tv to the socket on this and internal walls, will the insulation pose a problem. How would I prevent an avalanche of small balls from pouring from the wall if I cut holes for cable plates, would I need to drill small holes around the area and inject expanding foam or something?
I also plan to whip off a socket and have a poke around behind with a mirror and torch to try and get a better idea of what's behind there.
Thanks for your help, it's appreciated.