"simon beer" wrote in message
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Will plasterboard take kitchen wall cupboards or is it only appropriate to
find the studs and fix to these. Any recommendations on the best heavy
duty
PBoard plugs to use. Only ever fixed them to solid walls myself in the
past
so bit nervous about putting a couple up for someone else.
many thanks
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I had just this problem and didn't trust the 10mm plasterboard, but I found
that I couldn't use expanding toggle-type wall plugs anyway as the
plasterboard was held up by dot-and-dab, and there wasn't enough space
behind the plasterboard for the expanding toggle-thingies to be inserted.
Faced with this problem, I hacked out 3" x 3" holes in the plasterboard
where the fixings needed to go, and inserted wooden blocks of an appropriate
thickness in the holes. I then fixed these to the wall by rawlplugs and the
units to the wall through the wooden blocks too.
Sometime later, I cornered my rother who was arund when the kitchen was
installed and asked him how the other units were held up. He said that as
far as he knew they were secured only to the plasterboard, so in this case
it seems to have been strong enough. I did read in another thread that if
you have dot-and-dab then if a lump of it happens to be in the right place
then drill through that, the plasterboard will be strengthened in that area.
Use you knuckles and ears to find where the dabs are!
Andy.