Does No More Nails work?

Rosebery_2

Piggles12345 wrote: »

Hello,

The brackets which attach my curtain pole rests in are coming off the wall.

Do you mean the screws/wall plugs have pulled out of the wall and the holes are now too big?.

I was thinking of putting some No More Nails type stuff on the brackets and attaching them back to the wall.

NMN is carp. As has been suggested use a proper grab adhesive but NOT on the back of your brackets. Fill the enlarged holes with the adhesive and put a new wallplug in. Let that go off rock hard then screw your brackets back up.

Cheers

mrcow

I put a bathroom shelf up using no more nails the month we moved in (August 2002)

7 years later - the shelf is still up & doing just fine.

tuggy12

This guy seems pretty happy with it !!

angelavdavis

I regularly put NMN or similar into drilled holes before putting the rawlplug and screwing into walls, then allow it to set before applying whatever weight is to be hung from there. I find that it helps if your walls are a bit powdery (as my 150 year old house tends to be).

phead

Piggles12345 wrote: »

Hello,
I was thinking of putting some No More Nails type stuff on the brackets and attaching them back to the wall.

Won't work, the surface area is too small.

I have done exactly the same thing, as my old victorian flat had walls made of dust that wouldn't take rawplugs. What you need to do is strip off any wall paper, then glue wood to the wall, then screw into this. For a small bedroom window I used a bit of wood the width of the window, by about 10cm high by 1cm thick. I glossed it white on the exposed side to match the frame before fixing up.

After it had all dried you could swing from it!

david39

There are several cheaper products that look and act like No More Nails but I found that they were inferior to the original. This was especially so withthe B&Q own-brand.

mrcow

david39 wrote: »

There are several cheaper products that look and act like No More Nails but I found that they were inferior to the original. This was especially so withthe B&Q own-brand.

I completely agree. I tried the homebase equivalent and it was rubbish.

Go for the real product. The adhesive is much better.

AdrianW2

We used proper Unibond stuff.

Anyone know a way of fixing a curtain pole to a plasterboard box, short of ripping the plasterboard out and installing a stud behind it? Plasterboard fittings are gradually tearing through.

charliee_3

TomsMom wrote: »

Sticks like Sh*t, recommended by our builders as the muts nuts of this type of adhesive. Screwfix sell it as well, probably the DIY sheds too.

i cant believe they actually called it that??!!! lol :rolleyes:

TomsMom

charliee wrote: »

i cant believe they actually called it that??!!! lol :rolleyes:

:rotfl: I didn't believe it either, thought the builders were having me on until they showed me the tube!