Stacked stone will not hold a television. What is behind it will, and finding that is the entire job.
Call (601) 909-5117Text a PhotoThis is the part people miss. Natural and stacked stone veneer is a facing, not structure. Anchor into the stone alone and you are trusting mortar and a thin veneer with an eighty pound screen.
Knowing how fireplaces are actually built — where the studs run behind a stone face and how deep the veneer sits — is what makes this possible at all.
Stacked stone is uneven by design. One anchor might pass through two inches of veneer and the next through four. Every hole gets measured, not assumed.
The mount has to sit flat against an irregular surface. Sometimes that means shims, sometimes it means picking flatter stones for the anchor points.
Stone is the one surface I will not price over the phone. Stacked stone, river rock, cut stone and stone veneer panels are all different jobs.
Send photos of the whole fireplace and a close-up of the stone, and I will tell you what it takes.
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Yes. The anchors go through the stone into the framing behind it. Stone veneer on its own will not safely hold a television.
Yes. Brick is uniform and predictable. Stacked stone varies in depth across the same wall, so every anchor point has to be measured rather than assumed.
Not through the stone. Usually through the fireplace cavity, safely away from heat, or into an adjacent wall. I will tell you which is possible after seeing it.
Because stacked stone, river rock and cut stone are genuinely different jobs and depth varies wall to wall. A phone quote would be a guess, and I do not guess with your fireplace.
On anything harder than drywall I want to see it before I quote it. Text a picture and I will tell you what it takes.
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