On Jun 14, 11:16*pm, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
NT wrote:
On Jun 14, 8:53 pm, Bear wrote:
Hi - can someone set my mind at rest regarding a picture I've
recently hung on a plasterboard wall?
I've used plastic plasterboard raw plugs to hang a picture (about 5
feet wide and 2 feet tall) on a plasterboard wall but am now
regretting my decision and wished I'd sourced some of the metal type
plugs instead which splay out. The picture has two mirror type
fixings top and bottom of the picture (the type which screw into the
wood frame and then require you to screw these to the wall).
Whilst the picture is quite heavy it seems stable and the screws are
certainly tight (it's been up for 2 weeks now). But I'm a little
worried that over time something may give. The screws are 1 1/2 inch
size 8 and the two fixings on the left side of the picture went into
something other than just plasterboard! I don't think it was wood,
but when drilling the holes there was certainly more resistance than
with the two right side fixings.
Any advice or suggestions would be most welcome. I don't simply want
to take the picture down and re-fix it using the metal type if the
general consensus is that it will be fine as it took my wife and I
over 1 hour to hang the picture due to its size.
Thanks for reading
Theres more than one type of plastic plug
http://www.wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Wallplug
some of which will be entirely unsuitable.
Personally I wouldnt hang anything that big on PB, but some folk
would. I'd always screw straight into the uprights, no plugs needed,
no risk of falling.
Always assuming that you can of course. *From the OP's description I'd thing
the picture has this sort of mirror fixing?http://www.screwfix.com/prods/14529/...s/Brackets/Mir...
That being the case, it may not be possible to screw them to the frame and
also centralise the picture on the wall in line with the studs.
I supose, for a heavy pucture, one could locate the nearest studs and
screw a horizontal batton to them and then attach the picture to the
batton.
Robert