Mounting a REALLY heavy shower screen

tinalives

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moneysavingplumber

Is it possible to open the walls up on the other side of them and insert new timbers specifically to take the weight?

Little_John

You can also buy heavy weight hollow wall mounting screws. I have a set of shelves on a hollow wall with about 500 DVD's on them

check this page out
This is the one I use


Very expensive at B&Q about £7 for 8 I think the local wood yard sold them for about 10p each yeah I only found out after.

tinalives

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moneysavingplumber

Personally I wouldn't trust a shower screen on any kind of plasterboard fixings, they need to be secured either into brick-work or solid timber in my opinion.

plumb1_2

tinalives wrote:

My initial reaction was to use some kind of hollow wall-mounting fixings (like the ones you use Little John), but after realising how heavy the screens were I just couldn't see how the plasterboard could possibly hold the weight - regardless of what fixings we used, so I think we're going to try inserting some extra pieces of timber to take the weight - that seems to be the only option.

Thanks for your replies.

You could get free fitting, if you had a spare dsl router and cables;)
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