On July 7, 2018 at 20:35, Hasbeen said...
3. Reach your hand in the hole and find the nearest stud. Mark that location.
3a. If the hole is big enough to reach in on one side, it's large enough to reach in on the other side. There's zero reason to blindly assume that studs in a structure like this are actually on 16" centers. They could be closer together. Been there.
4. Mark where you'll drill the holes for your bracket into the studs.
4a. Drill holes in the bracket that match the actual stud locations if the mount doesn't already have holes that match the stud locations.
In fact, some articulating mounts are built such that you can't put a hole in their back plate anywhere near the center of the mount, so you might even want to bring two kinds of mounts or do steps 3 and 4 before buying the mount.
COOL! A new bit of hardware I had not seen before!
7. If the stone is terribly uneven to the point it's making the bracket sit wonky, you can shim it a bit with the spacers provided with the bracket...If you want to go crazy with it, you can use a dremel to cut the spacers accordingly.
Or you can go to the plumbing department and get spacers made of a flexible material. A solid spacer will try to distribute the pressure evenly over an area. If the area is not even, a flexible material spacer will "give" in the high pressure areas, spreading the pressure more than a hard spacer can.
