On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:08:21 +0100, DerbyBorn
wrote:

On Jun 20, 6:00 pm, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
TheOldFellow wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:01:36 -0700 (PDT)
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.

Perhaps, and this is very tentative, you could drill a single large
hole
right through the plasterboard and well into the block. The hole size
can be the maximum that will be hidden by the fitting, I'm guessing
25mm. Then bond with epoxy something that will take the stresses into
said hole. Drill the something to take the screws, possibly before
epoxying in. The "Something" could be a hardwood dowel, or even a
length
of steel or ally round if you can drill and tap it.

All my other thoughts involve divorce. It's a lot of trouble for a
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R.

If its dot and dab, make a hole in the board a bit bigger than the screw
and somehow get car body filler behind the board. You can use short
screws straight into that, or drill right through and use rawlplugs.

Or simply remove a board section, and replace with car body filler
'filling' ..its not hard to reskim and paint.

Another option is to tile that area, then drill and use the tile to
spread the load to the board.

Or use a nice section of scrap hardwood board glued to the PB.

Never be afraid to rip out PB and replace/skim/sand/repaint.- Hide
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Some good ideas today - however, I have returned the holder and had a
refund. I have spotted a few others - all at a higher price which will
give a downward loading rather than a torsion. SWMBO is considering a
floor standing bog roll holder.

Thanks for your inputs.

http://www.fischer.de/en/fill-and-fix.aspx

Or for a more d-i-y appropriate technique, mix some polyurethane glue and
suitable filler, squirt through hole into space. Trim and fit accessory.

O - no longer a problem...

Rod