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Thanks! I've talked to several people on the subject, including my apartment complex's assistant landlord. The general consensus for the best solution is a T-brace, basically an external wall stud nailed/bolted properly to the wall. And it's a vertical-shaped full-tilting wall mount.
I will definitely keep your plan in mind, and thanks ever so much for the advice.I see that I've indeed mentioned it in another thread, so I will go ahead and mention it here - I wouldn't be so adamant about this one particular spot except that I'm going through with plans to convert part of my bedroom into a studio for shooting videos for YouTube, practicing and demoing my craft of what I'm in college for - weather forecasting.
There will be a chromakey green screen - I've got the fabric for it, just need to hem the ragged edges. The TV...there's this section of wall that's exactly 43 & 1/2 inches between my bedroom door and my closet door. That's exactly enough room for me to mount my 30in flatscreen exactly in between that space, with the mounting to the wall being in the dead center.
The desired effect I want to achieve is that that TV will be used for graphics, animation and video fed from my laptop via an HDMI cable. Directly underneath where the TV would be mounted onto the wall would be a two-person seating area seating area that I already have the stuff for, and the TV will serve as a backdrop. We're thinking a T-brace because that would hide behind the TV - it' a big enough TV to where no one would ever see it, as the TV would hide it. The wall mount is one of those expanding, full-tilt ones that you could literally extend the arm fully straight, and the arm has full 180* tilt ability If you pull the TV forward completely, I don't want it to fall out of the walls, and then I need to catch it quickly to save my investment. I've already had to do that once during the failure of the first attempt to mount the TV. And I'm doing this work all myself without any outside help other than people answering my questions and giving me advice for which I'm very much appreciative.
As a handyman, my objection to a T-brace is that it's placing weight on the wall where there isn't actually any support. An I would be better, with both top and bottom of the I fastened to studs, and the upright part placed in the middle. In fact, adding the vertical part to it would grant a small bit of additional stability to what I described.
Though if you like overkill, forget the individual boards and get a high-grade piece of half-inch plywood....
then your TV should stay in place even if an earthquake knocks over everything else in your place.


I see that I've indeed mentioned it in another thread, so I will go ahead and mention it here - I wouldn't be so adamant about this one particular spot except that I'm going through with plans to convert part of my bedroom into a studio for shooting videos for YouTube, practicing and demoing my craft of what I'm in college for - weather forecasting.


