On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 3:59:09 PM UTC, Davidm wrote:
On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 11:01:13 +0000, Adrian Caspersz
wrote:

Found the following vid of interest,

Plasterboard fixings- The good, the bad and the useless!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIEY3E4fiDk

Great title.

"The video includes- plasplugs hollow wall anchors, Plasplugs heavy duty
plasterboard hollow wall anchor, Universal wall plug, Worm screw, redi
driver, Rosette plasterboard fixing, Snap toggle, Hollow wall anchors,
Grip it fixing."
and of course if the wall is plasterboard dot&dab onto a solid base
(brick or block) then a few of the fixings won't work at all. Obvious
to most of us maybe, but not to everyone.

I remember coming home cold from the sea many winters ago, and half leaning against the wall, half sitting on the storage heater in a rented house. When I defrosted I went to stand up, the heater fell off the wall. Wrestling with 70kg of bricks is something I do not want to repeat. When I re-attached the heater, the screws went into the studs, where the should have been in the first place.