Straw Poll for the Pros

[Richardthe3rd]

Can I please ask fellow pros the following;

Hanging radiators on plasterboard walls.
Do you commonly use a fastbrolly type fixing for the radiator brackets?
Thanks chaps.

 

[Newboy]

Spring toggles or fischer plasterboard anchors

 

[Whitespirit66]

Depends on rad.

Small single, would use expanding or winged board anchors. Prefer to have one bracket into a stud though, especially as rad size increases.

Often, I have bonded bracket to wall in addition to fixings for 'belt and braces'. When you get into larger rads, doubles, etc - often cut a section of board from behing rad to put some battens in. Obviosly out of sight.

Not keen on just relying on fixings into board on their own.

 

[Gas2Air]

Oh yes that call. I have a leaking radiator on a Sunday morning. We had a few people round last for drinks and party and it suddenly fell off the wall.

Did it?

 

[Gasguru]

And drill another couple of holes in the brackets so you have 4 fixings per bracket.

 

[Dan Robinson]

Did a load of fancy single panel flat thingies today using the ones that splay out as you tighten then. You have to use a setting tool first otherwise they just eat the plasterboard.

Prefer to make noggins for heavier rads though.

 

[GavThePlumber]

Big discussion about this years ago on the screwfix forum, which led to me and one of my guys to doing a test on mounting a type 22, 2400mm rad in my garage on the cheapest plasterboard from wickes, timber frame style, studded it at 400mm

Used four brackets, as per MI and 2 toggles per bracket, not huge ones either, 50-75mm probably, nothing into the studs.

Dry weight of this rad must of been 80kg+, hung it and was all fine. Filled it up, which would be another 20-30kg of water and it was still fine, i stood on top of it in the centre, another 85kg and it still didn't move, we probably both could have got on it, we didn't because if it ripped away we would of cracked our heads.

We ripped it all off in about 10 seconds mind, but the point being the board can take vast vertical load (that is not the correct terminology, downwards force etc)

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