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


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.


gonna have to do this myself on dot and dabbed plasterboard walls in the
next week or two. I was thinking of drilling through into the brick behind
the plasterboard and using loooong screws (oush the plug into the hole with
the screw) so there would be no horizontal force on the board (and in fact
the brackets screwed to the brick would be gripping pressing the board
towards the wall). Any reason not to do it this way? (the units have
adjustable brackets which hook onto metal plate brackets on the wall)

cheers

dave