On Jun 12, 10:18*pm, "Steve Walker" wrote:
Samantha Booth wrote:

Tried my normal rawplugs and it wasnt beefy enough to hold my coat
hangers (4 on a piece of wood) Tried an anchor, that too pulled
through the plasterboard. I wonder what else I can use that may do
it. The coats are heavy, granted but i would have thought the heavy
duty anchors would have sufficed. Its PB on both sides so no solid
wall to attach to. Also with under the stais being sloped I cannot
fix into the batton behind, would gripfill do? Any ideas folks?

For a heavy load your only practical solutions are to either gripfill a
larger plywood board to the wall and then fix to the centre of that, or to
fit the rack with screws directly into a yimber behind the plasterboard.
No pb fixing will resist a prolonged load on a levered coathook, imho.

Also I need to repair some PB that has largish holes in, as in the
size of your hand holes. They havent gone all the way through, some
are dented plasterboard some holes. I am currently using Polyfiller
but with the ammount I need it will be expensive to do it with this.
What else can I use?

Get a scrap of plasterboard, hardboard or plywood which you can fit through
the hole and press against it from the inside (eg post it like a letter, and
then turn it flsuh with the wall once it's inside). * *Butter the sides with
filler or no-nails, and pull it firmly into place *on the inside*. *You may
need to rig a temporary support until it sets. *Then you only need to fill
the 12mm depth of the board, and it will be stronger too.


IME fixing even one coathook to PB is impractical. Yes it fixes ok,
and yes it works... but over a year or 2 the pb gradually crumbles
till the hook comes loose. PB just isnt strong enough. You need to fix
your 4 hook rack to something more solid somehow, else I cant see it
lasting.

Good suggestions already made. One thing I've never tried is sticking
a few sheets of PB behind a hole so you get a thick fairly solid area
a couple of inches deep to fix into.


NT