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Thread: Mounting speaker brackets to ceiling |
    
New member Username: Musclez
Post Number: 1
Registered: Apr-06
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| Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 03:42 pm: |
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This is my first post. I hope it doesn't make me sound too new (it probably will). I'm moving out of my apartment and into a house next month. Wanting to mount my surrounds on brackets hanging from ceiling. The attic above the living room is floored. The speakers weigh approx 4lbs each. I figure i can drill through the ceiling and attic floor for running wires. As for mounting the brackets, would you guys feel comfortable just using drywall screws with anchors in the ceiling? I guess I'm asking if I need to try and hang them just from the ceiling itself or look for boards to srew them into?
Any ideas?
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Bronze Member Username: Angelo
New york
Post Number: 25
Registered: Mar-06
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| Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 12:08 am: |
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drywall is fine if you use anchors but if you feel more comfortable drill it into a beam.
when I was single I had a huge mirror about 50 lbs over my bed on the celing straight into the drywall celing and nothing ever happened thank God. boy those were the days |
Bronze Member Username: Mvanmeter
KY
USA
Post Number: 39
Registered: Jan-06
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| Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 11:35 am: |
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I have had great luck with a brand of anchors called E-Z self drilling toggle anchors.
http://www.itwbrands.com/product_details.aspx?id=4
with the lock bar behind the drywall there is no way it will pull out, especially if used on a ceiling mount where all the force is vertical.
any Home Depot or Lowes will have them. Strength wise they are overkill, but they won't come out |
New member Username: Musclez
Post Number: 2
Registered: Apr-06
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| Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 12:32 pm: |
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Thanks for the help. That's very good news. |
Silver Member Username: Chitown
Post Number: 956
Registered: Apr-05
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| Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 01:16 pm: |
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With 4lb speakers you shouldn't have any problems.
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