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My kid managed to pull some curtains down. I'd fitted them to a wooden batten that was already in place. It's seems someone thought it would be ok to attach it with the smallest screws they could find and coupled with the mess in the plaster around the screw holes, I'm surprised it stayed up as long as it did.
I had a go with 100mm screws but it seems there is nothing at that depth for the raw plugs to hold into. I then measured the depth until something solid and it's 135mm from the surface of the plaster.
I have a few questions if anyone can help.
What will the solid substance be? Is there a chance it is steel? How will I tell?
I was thinking of getting these in either 180mm or 200mm https://www.toolstation.com/ulti-mate-ii-stick-fit-bzp-screw/p15169. I was going to correct the plaster work, bradawl through the current batten holes ready for drilling and hopefully attach into the solid substance 135mm behind.
Are those screws ok or any other recommendations? What size would be best? Can anyone help with suitable rawplugs and drill bit?
I was looking at getting an sds drill? Is this likely to be useful or would a 12v combi with the correct bit work for this?
Or would I be better off making new holes and possibly even using something like grip-it?
The small screw is what it was held up with. The larger one is what I tried but is still too short. I also tried some m10 135 frame fixing which how I figured out the depth is 135 until solid.
I had a go with 100mm screws but it seems there is nothing at that depth for the raw plugs to hold into. I then measured the depth until something solid and it's 135mm from the surface of the plaster.
I have a few questions if anyone can help.
What will the solid substance be? Is there a chance it is steel? How will I tell?
I was thinking of getting these in either 180mm or 200mm https://www.toolstation.com/ulti-mate-ii-stick-fit-bzp-screw/p15169. I was going to correct the plaster work, bradawl through the current batten holes ready for drilling and hopefully attach into the solid substance 135mm behind.
Are those screws ok or any other recommendations? What size would be best? Can anyone help with suitable rawplugs and drill bit?
I was looking at getting an sds drill? Is this likely to be useful or would a 12v combi with the correct bit work for this?
Or would I be better off making new holes and possibly even using something like grip-it?
The small screw is what it was held up with. The larger one is what I tried but is still too short. I also tried some m10 135 frame fixing which how I figured out the depth is 135 until solid.
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