I'm mounting my articulating mount into a concrete wall.

It's in a high rise condo, so the concrete is good, probably ~3000psi.

42" TV weighs around 50 pounds. Mount extends up to 20". So that's 1000lbs of force.

My plan was to use 3/8" sleeve anchors. Problem is they are 3" deep. The holes are a *PAIN* to drill, I'm having a lot of problems with the hole skating a bit. (I'm using a good hammer drill and bit). I have two options now

1) I have 1 sleeve anchor in place. Fasten the mount plate, and use it as a guide for the other holes to prevent skating. Drill huge holes. Lose a bit of blood. But be damned sure of the strength.

2) Forget sleeve. Switch to Tapcons. Looks like 1/4" tapcons, of depth 1.5" will hold just over a thousand pounds of both shear and tension, EACH. So six of these should be okay. And would it be easier drilling the 3/16" hole for the tapcons? Less skate since it's a lot smaller.


Sorry, I guess I'm just having trouble. Six tiny 1/4" screws? Really?! I mean these sleeve anchors give you a nice warm feeling. They're HUGE. Beefy.

Forget it. I'm going tapcon. This is rediculous.

what did you end up doing? Sounds like tapcon... did you hang off of the mount before you hung the TV (seems like it is thing to do :) )

If you're getting a good grip with the tapcons then those should work for you. We had an issue with the tapcons because we were putting them into hollow cinder block, and the cinder block would just disintegrate and the tapcons wouldn't hold. So we used beefy sleeve anchors. But it sounds like your concrete is pretty solid!

Alright, after hitting Home Depot.. I'm back to sleeves.

Tapcons hold a lot, *only* when place every 3 inches for the surface area of the thing being mounted. So 4 Tapcons wouldn't have the holding power I thought they would.

What I've done though, is gone down in size. I have my two 3/8" dia, 3" deep sleeve anchors.

I bought a couple sizes, but I'm hoping to go with 1/4" dia, and I think 1.5" depth sleeve anchors for the remaining 4 holes. The shear each is still ~1100 pounds.

I won't be completely hanging off the mount since it's only rated for up to 90lb tv's I think. But I'll definately push on it a fair amount :)