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Trying to hang a stainless steel bathroom cabinet on a plasterboard wall where there are no studs in the right place. Cabinet weighs @7.5kg empty. Searched posts on here, had a look online at the different types of fitting and went to B&Q to see them in the flesh. The metal back of the cabinet has holes drilled in the four corners - the holes will take a screw of 40mm, maybe 50mm at a push.
I looked at self-drive metal plug/screws, plastic (nylon?) toggles and metal cavity fixings (the metal plug with two prongs at the top end) as these were the only ones where I thought the screw would fit the cabinet holes. I asked the advice of the B&Q resident wall-fixing expert who recommended the self-drive ones so off I went with them £9 poorer!
First problem - because the back of the cabinet is only a thin sheet of metal, the screws were too long for the plugs so, looked online and found it was OK to nip the sharp point off the plug with pliers. Drilled pilot holes and screwed the plugs in. I wasn't convinced they were very secure - screwing them in, it just didn't feel like they were 'biting'. But I tried hanging the cabinet anyway. What I found was that because the back of the cabinet flexes a little when screwing, it just 'bounced' the plugs and screws out - 3 out of the 4 came out. I've probed the holes and the plasterboard seems to be approx. 13-15mm thick.
So back to square one. Should I try to re-insert the plugs with something like Wetnfix? Or abandon them for something else? I'm thinking that metal toggles might be the most secure but are they available with a thin enough screw? Or is there something else I can use?
Any advice gratefully received!
Hope this is the right section for this!
Trying to hang a stainless steel bathroom cabinet on a plasterboard wall where there are no studs in the right place. Cabinet weighs @7.5kg empty. Searched posts on here, had a look online at the different types of fitting and went to B&Q to see them in the flesh. The metal back of the cabinet has holes drilled in the four corners - the holes will take a screw of 40mm, maybe 50mm at a push.
I looked at self-drive metal plug/screws, plastic (nylon?) toggles and metal cavity fixings (the metal plug with two prongs at the top end) as these were the only ones where I thought the screw would fit the cabinet holes. I asked the advice of the B&Q resident wall-fixing expert who recommended the self-drive ones so off I went with them £9 poorer!
First problem - because the back of the cabinet is only a thin sheet of metal, the screws were too long for the plugs so, looked online and found it was OK to nip the sharp point off the plug with pliers. Drilled pilot holes and screwed the plugs in. I wasn't convinced they were very secure - screwing them in, it just didn't feel like they were 'biting'. But I tried hanging the cabinet anyway. What I found was that because the back of the cabinet flexes a little when screwing, it just 'bounced' the plugs and screws out - 3 out of the 4 came out. I've probed the holes and the plasterboard seems to be approx. 13-15mm thick.
So back to square one. Should I try to re-insert the plugs with something like Wetnfix? Or abandon them for something else? I'm thinking that metal toggles might be the most secure but are they available with a thin enough screw? Or is there something else I can use?
Any advice gratefully received!