Ash wrote:

"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



In my last house's kitchen refit. The joiner who was doing the job secured a
horizontal batten to the plasterboard wall screwed through to the stud work.
He then notched out the top rear of the wall units, so that they fitted over
the batten and snugly to the wall. They were then simply screwed in place
onto the batten. As the backboard in the cupboards in not right at the back
the batten was out of sight.

He also had not need to use those adjustable brackets which the cupboards
came with and the job was done pretty quickly and was very secure.

This is pretty nuch what I ended up doing at the unit tops anyway - thin
batten that fits betwen the unit rear and the wall, screwed to studs.

I uses platsrboard atrtachments and bits of car body filler to hld teh
bases from flapping, screwed through some spacers made of batten.

The tiles bertween the worktop and cupboards act as support anway
ultimately.


In my bathroom, I had a similar problem bulding a vanity unit and bath
surround. I superglued a batten to the (bare plaster) wall. I could
stand on it.

I also used epoxy and car body filler to attach battens to an acrylic
bath to fix a custom made bath panel. Its absolutely perfect.

The range and quality of adhesives available today should not be
overlooked: a glued joint that spreads loads to a wide erea of
plasterboard is extremely sound, if you use the right glue, and there
isn't e.g. a peelable paint surface in between.

Glues I have used recently are

5 minute epoxy (fast, but not as tring or as flexible as..
1 hour epoxy - but its a pain to wait for it to fully cure - several
days sometimes.
- car body filler. Cheap for gapfilling joints, and the muckite sticks
to almost everythig well
- superglue- fast, and works extremely well on bare plaster, since it
likes alkali and damp to go off, but has almost no gapfilling potential.
- mirror glue, whih is a solvent adhesive like /no more nails etc, and
ends up hard rubbery.

Even silicone sealer is useful for glueing bog pans to tiles, and
acrylic decorators caulk is a fair cheap mans no more nails if used
correctly.








Ash