A small airing cupboard has 3 standard partition walls and each partition wall has several verticals. I found out that the airing cupboard radiator's brackets were coming loose because of inadequate rawl plugs. So I removed sections of plaster, added four 7"x3" CLS timber horizontal wood (blockers)between the 3 (1 left, 1 centre 1 to right) verticals (verticals are 4" x 3" timber) then put the plasterboard back then put a bigger radiator in the airing cupboard. I uses hex screws to remount the brackets to the blockers behind the plaster. Due to lack of access to the left and right verticals I could only attach the blockers using two 6x80 wood screws drilled diagonally per edge and I did reinforce with flat bar brackets on each edge. The new radiator is about 25kg plus 15kg water weight so about 40kg. So 40/4 about 10kg per bracket so about 5kg per pair of 6x80 wood screws so about 2.5kg per 6x80 screw. Hopefully I have sized the mechanical fixing right? Here are some pics for context: Pic 1 showing the blockers added
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