removing heavy duty fixing from plasterboard

[MATHIB]

i put up a shelf using heavy duty plasterboard fixings, the ones when you tighten, they create a cross behind the plasterboard. The wife has now decided she no longers wants this shelf up . How do i remove these fixings as they wont un-screw? do i just cut round them, push them through and then try and plug the holes that they have left?

 

[MATHIB]

i think they are called "interset" fixings. plenty of advice in the wb about how to install them, hee-haw about hoe to get them out.

 

[masona]

Screw the bolt back into the thread then carefully push it in to open up the cross behind the plasterboard then pull the whole thing forward slightly and with a long nose plier bend the four lug up 90 degree then push the whole toggle through the plasterboard behind.

 

[MATHIB]

what is the "four lug"?

i dont come out form behind my desk very often........

 

[masona]

Is this the one you have? If so, have to drill it out carefully until the washer head come apart.

 

[chappers]

take out the bolt and hit the fixing with a hammer hard enough to bruisie the plasterboard but not so hard as to knock a hole all the way through the fixing should then be in the centre of a small depresion just use filler to fill the depression.

 

[MATHIB]

i bent back the part that was flush with the plasterboard and it came away from the rest of it, so i was then able to just push it through the hole. job done, thanks for everyones advice.