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J_Me reacted to btjtaylor's post in the thread Screwing tinto a hard wood section behind the plasterboard?? (much wider than a stud) with
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Is there a socket or switch nearby you can remove? Will give you a clue as to the wall construction I can see in your photo there is a... -
J_Me reacted to lostinthelight's post in the thread Screwing tinto a hard wood section behind the plasterboard?? (much wider than a stud) with Thanks.
I may be wrong but thought within 150mm of a corner was classed as a zone for electrical wiring so extreme care needed
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J_Me replied to the thread Screwing tinto a hard wood section behind the plasterboard?? (much wider than a stud).Thank you both. Simple knocking's clearly not a reliable indication in itself. TBH I wasn't just going to assume, I came searching...
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J_Me reacted to Alec_t's post in the thread Screwing tinto a hard wood section behind the plasterboard?? (much wider than a stud) with Thanks.
Agreed. But it's nice to be reasonably sure that you won't be poking that exploratory hole through a wire or pipe.
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J_Me replied to the thread Screwing tinto a hard wood section behind the plasterboard?? (much wider than a stud).Ah, thank you for that idea (I have thin precision screwdrivers that wouldn't make much of a hole.)
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J_Me reacted to foxhole's post in the thread Screwing tinto a hard wood section behind the plasterboard?? (much wider than a stud) with Thanks.
No need to drill just push a screwdriver thru , small blade , if it sticks into what’s behind its wood and you can screw direct to it.
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J_Me replied to the thread Screwing tinto a hard wood section behind the plasterboard?? (much wider than a stud).I thought that about putting a hole through, but when searching for what rawl plugs/fixings one uses for wood, I found you don't drill a...
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J_Me reacted to foxhole's post in the thread Screwing tinto a hard wood section behind the plasterboard?? (much wider than a stud) with Thanks.
You won’t know till you put a hole thru the plasterboard. No pipe/ stud detector is going to tell you.
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J_Me reacted to Alec_t's post in the thread Screwing tinto a hard wood section behind the plasterboard?? (much wider than a stud) with Thanks.
That's not a reliable indication of what might be behind the plasterboard. If you're going to be fixing things to walls, a...
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J_Me posted the thread Screwing tinto a hard wood section behind the plasterboard?? (much wider than a stud) in General DIY.I have a house built in 2016 - with mostly plaster board hollow walls. I’m a novice at DIY, but (with a lot of googling/Youtube) I’ve...
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