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extra studs behind plasterboard
dod309
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Hi, I have bought a new towel rail which is quite heavy so i want to put extra studs in the wall behind the plasterboard. Can anyone tell me the easiet way to do this? Thanks
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Do you know that it's a stud wall? Or do you think it is? It may be a dot and dab wall (lightweight block with plaster board stuck on to it). If its he latter, you just need to drill into the plaster board, through into the block (10 -15mm gap between the back of the plasterboard and front of the block). Push a good quality fixing into the block ( Rawplug 'Uno') and then secure the towel rail with an over sized screw.
If it is a stud wall, you will need to cut part of the wall out, fix in a stud, replace the plasterboard, fill the gap where you ave cut th plasterboard, sand it and decorate it.Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.0 -
Our bathroom fitters removed plasterboard around where the
mountings were to go, fitted plyboard of the same depth as the plasterboard to the existing studwork, plastered over it and fixed the rail to the plyboard.0
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