can anyone help me with type of fixings needed for a no -fines wall
hanging an lcd tv
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"No Fines" is what it says on the tin. 
It's concrete, made from a single size rock or gravel aggregate 10/20 mm,mixed together in a cement slurry to form No Fines. This type of concrete has no sand or small aggregates added to the mix, hence the name, "No Fines Concrete." George Wimpey built flats and houses with this product. They were shuttered and poured. Because it has an open texture, due to the absence of fine aggregates, it would be difficult to fix to.Its like an open textured pebbled concrete, that's the only way to describe it. You will either drill into a void, or into the middle of a piece of rock, there's no happy medium. Most "No-Fines" that I worked on (blocks of flats) had duplex plasterboard (paramount boards with egg boxing between the layers) somehow fitted to the inside walls, the outside was scratched and roughcasted.As regards to your question, you would be better investigating elsewhere online to see if you can find a suitable fixing. Sorry.
Roughcaster.
It's concrete, made from a single size rock or gravel aggregate 10/20 mm,mixed together in a cement slurry to form No Fines. This type of concrete has no sand or small aggregates added to the mix, hence the name, "No Fines Concrete." George Wimpey built flats and houses with this product. They were shuttered and poured. Because it has an open texture, due to the absence of fine aggregates, it would be difficult to fix to.Its like an open textured pebbled concrete, that's the only way to describe it. You will either drill into a void, or into the middle of a piece of rock, there's no happy medium. Most "No-Fines" that I worked on (blocks of flats) had duplex plasterboard (paramount boards with egg boxing between the layers) somehow fitted to the inside walls, the outside was scratched and roughcasted.As regards to your question, you would be better investigating elsewhere online to see if you can find a suitable fixing. Sorry.Roughcaster.
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imamartian
i'd get a nice big cabinet and a stand. If your wall is as roughcaster says then you won't be able to hide you wires anyway.... but with a nice cabinet you would. That's what i'd do .
Your welcome.
Roughcaster.
Roughcaster.
If you have access to the other side of the wall, you can mount the LCD bracket on studs (threaded rods).
Drill through holes for the studs, and cut them to length. On the other side of the wall, make some arrangements to spread the load: large washers, or drilled steel straps. These could be buried beneath plaster. Or you could use wooden battens over the plaster; for a neater finish, counterbore the holes to sink the nuts below the surface of the wood (allowing clearance in the counterbore for a socket spanner to tighten the nuts, perhaps).
This would probably be a two-handed job, unless you have very long arms.
I've done something similar to mount a grab rail to a wall that couldn't take any fixings.
Drill through holes for the studs, and cut them to length. On the other side of the wall, make some arrangements to spread the load: large washers, or drilled steel straps. These could be buried beneath plaster. Or you could use wooden battens over the plaster; for a neater finish, counterbore the holes to sink the nuts below the surface of the wood (allowing clearance in the counterbore for a socket spanner to tighten the nuts, perhaps).
This would probably be a two-handed job, unless you have very long arms.
I've done something similar to mount a grab rail to a wall that couldn't take any fixings.
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