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Why does nobody talk about mounting the monitor arm to the wall instead of the desk
I built a whole clamp style arm setup on my particle board desk top and it bowed the wood within about three weeks, to the point where my second monitor started leaning. I kept tightening the clamp like an idiot until a guy at the hardware store on 5th street asked why I wasn't just putting a French cleat on the wall behind the desk. Drilling four holes into studs and hanging a $22 piece of oak board took one afternoon and now the desk itself carries zero weight from the arms. My desk stopped bouncing when I type, and I got about 7 inches of desk depth back that the clamps were eating. Everyone on here keeps posting clamp builds because they're fast and don't need drywall anchors, but renting means I can patch four small holes way easier than I can replace a sagging desk top. Has anyone here gone wall mounted and run into trouble with a monitor arm that's too short to reach over a deep desk?
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the_sandra2d ago
Four holes in studs is easier said than done when the studs don't line up where you actually want the monitor. My last place had the studs sitting about a foot off from center, so the arm ended up way to the left of my chair and I spent two months turning my neck like an owl to look at it. The clamp setup lets you slide the whole thing left or right until it feels right, which matters more than people admit. I get the particle board sag though, that part is real and annoying. A cheap fix is a piece of plywood under the clamp to spread the load, which is way less work than hanging a board and patching drywall when you move out.
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