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Plasterboard wall and pictures - advice needed
Hi - can someone set my mind at rest regarding a picture I've recently
hung on a plasterboard wall? I've used plastic plasterboard raw plugs to hang a picture (about 5 feet wide and 2 feet tall) on a plasterboard wall but am now regretting my decision and wished I'd sourced some of the metal type plugs instead which splay out. The picture has two mirror type fixings top and bottom of the picture (the type which screw into the wood frame and then require you to screw these to the wall). Whilst the picture is quite heavy it seems stable and the screws are certainly tight (it's been up for 2 weeks now). But I'm a little worried that over time something may give. The screws are 1 1/2 inch size 8 and the two fixings on the left side of the picture went into something other than just plasterboard! I don't think it was wood, but when drilling the holes there was certainly more resistance than with the two right side fixings. Any advice or suggestions would be most welcome. I don't simply want to take the picture down and re-fix it using the metal type if the general consensus is that it will be fine as it took my wife and I over 1 hour to hang the picture due to its size. Thanks for reading |
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