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Default Best fixings for plasterboard walls and ceilings?

On 26/07/2011 21:47, NT wrote:
On Jul 26, 9:42 pm, wrote:


Any advice greatly appreciated, e.g. would you trust a couple of
Rawlplug Unos to keep a bathroom cabinet on a plasterboard wall?


I wouldnt trust 2 of anything to keep a cabinet up. Plasterboard isnt
that strong. Some people here have far more faith in it than I though.
Fixings not designed for plasterboard are unusable on PB. Your best
bet is locate the vertical stud and screw into that.


I've put one up in the past successfully by positioning the cabinet so
that just one (vertical) pair of screws went into a stud; these were
backed up with plasterboard fixings in the corners, but the weight of
the cabinet was borne by the solid fixings into the stud.

That method at least gives you are reasonable position range along the
wall to place the cabinet; the usual problem being that the studs are
never located where you (or more likely, SWMBO ) would like them to be.

David