Plaintiff is a homeowner who is suing the AV company because a TV "fell off the wall".
Case starts out with the plantiff telling the story about the bad check he wrote and you hear "snap toggler" so at first you want to side with the AV guy.
Then you see that the AV guy used 4 snap togglers to mount an articulating bracket to the drywall. Snap togglers worked. The chunk of drywall that fell out is still securely mounted to the bracket when it rips from the drywall.
AV guy brings the snap toggler spec sheet to show how many pounds it can handle but the judge figures out that articulating action changes the math a little bit. Judge then goes to the Sanus website where it says in bold letters "This product is designed for use in wood studs only - DO NOT install into drywall alone."
In one of the photos it showed where the bracket was mounted center on a stud. Instead of piloting a couple of holes (or moving the bracket 2 inches to the left) to make use of the stud they put two togglers on either side of the stud and of course the bracket+TV ripped out of the wall when someone tried to move the TV. Video of that part [Link: wiremunky.com]
Anyone know these guys? Tell them that "no stud=no movement" when it comes to mount selection.
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Mac, you just made my day. Last week I saw someone mount TVs with the togglers in just drywall because he didn't want to drill metal studs. They weren't on arms, but still... his argument was "the box says one holds 265lbs in half inch drywall and I'm using 4.
But, I didn't have the authority to make him drill the studs and do it right.
Civil War reenactment is LARPing for people with no imagination.
I'm glad that I don't work near that guy. We mounted an articulating arm and 65" TV on what first appeared to be a very sturdy wall unit with 1" panels. However, once you looked closely, these panels were just clipped on. If I had simply lagged the mount into the panel, the clips would have released as soon as I loaded the TV -- bringing the whole wall down with me and the TV in a pile. Fortunately, the wall unit was built around a building column and I was able to access the back side and sandwich the column and panel between the mount and a backing plate. While this was definitely not a 20 minute hang and go project, this TV will hang on till the building goes down.
LoL.. Now THAT right there is a pair of mental giants. The scary part is how many TVs that idiot HAS installed. On the other hand the client kind of deserved for all of the TVs to fall on account of how his payment went down.
Well it could be worse... There's always this one.
I like that this hang and bang hack is being sued for failing at the very basics of Install 101 and shows up wearing a shirt with the company name/logo thinking there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Their website looks like it was created to mimic craigslist. It's pretty bad. Testimonial section is a link to a AVS Forum thread :-D
The Yelp reviews all revolve around antenna installations. I wonder if he really doesn't do that many hangs or perhaps he just does basic installs. Either way, with a stud right there, he definitely didn't go the proper route.
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