On Jun 19, 12:59 am, The Medway Handyman
wrote:
On 18/06/2011 23:01, Jim K wrote:



On Jun 18, 6:01 pm, 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.

metal Redidrivas (screwfux,toolsatan et al) doing that job in 3
bathrooms here....

Good fix to a plasterboard stud partition, but dot & dab doesn't give
enough space for them IME.

Aye, spose all depends on the standards of the construction, age of
house etc as to how big a gap behind the pb, and what is then behind
that. Some ****ty concrete blocks won't argue much and 'twill work.

In the past i've chopped down nylon redidrivas (after preparing the
threaded pb hole with a metal redidriva), so reducing the protrusion
by cutting off the (redundant) self drilling part.

If the masonry is so close behind the pb (so far i don't think it's
been checked) can't the OP just fix to the masonry, "injecting" a
touch of squirty foam through the holes in the pb to support the pb
from being "pulled" in when the screws are finally tightened after the
foams gone off??

Jim K