On 19/06/2011 00:57, The Medway Handyman wrote:
On 18/06/2011 18:01, DerbyBorn wrote:
I think I have made a bad choice of accessory!

With SWMBO I bought a towel rail and toilet roll holder. The toilet
roll holder needs to have a small spigot screwed to the wall with two
screws at approx 9/16 centres. The chrome holder then fits to theis
spigot. Two screws are needed to resist the holder from twisting.

The trouble is that the wall is dab n dob plasterboard. I am thinking
that I am going to get into difficulties trying to get a good fixing.
Going into the breeze block is possible but as yet I am not sure how
far back it is. Even then I need to prevent the plasterboard pulling
in and making the fitting loose.

Any ideas? I want a neat job.

With all the new builds around here I have to fit dozens of the buggers.
Next & B&Q both use this system - I'd love to get the designer on site
to fit one - the git.

You can get a decent enough fixing. The problem is that 2 holes at such
close centres weakens the PB.

If the fitting uses 2 holes to avoid twisting I use the small Rawlplug
'Uno' yellow plugs which use a 5mm masonry bit. These fix to the
plasterboard only, but give a very strong fix.

If the twisting isn't an issue I'll use a single brown 'uno' with a 7mm
bit - again, very strong fix.

I can't recommend these 'Uno' plugs highly enough, never had a bad fix
on any type of wall.



"Hollow door fixings" are useful where there isn't enough gap behind the
PB for normal PB fixings.