Hanging wall units on plasterboard

prowla

Plasterboard has no strength and cannot support a cupboard.
Generally plasterboard is a fronting onto a wood framework, which things can be attached to if it is of suitable strength.
Tapping on the board would give a clue as to the location of the wood behind it.
But it may or may not be sufficiently sturdy to attach a cupboard to.

gazfocus

prowla wrote: »

Plasterboard has no strength and cannot support a cupboard.
Generally plasterboard is a fronting onto a wood framework, which things can be attached to if it is of suitable strength.
Tapping on the board would give a clue as to the location of the wood behind it.
But it may or may not be sufficiently sturdy to attach a cupboard to.

As said, the wall uses metal studding, not wood.

cyclonebri1

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Any batten strip beneath the cupboards will cross studs at some point, and can be firmly fixed there. The load will be evenly spread across the batten. If, as well, the batten is fixed firmly to the cupboards, any downward thrust from any one (heavy) cupboard would be shared between all top fixings of all cupboards.

{It's been a long night with a cold.... hope that makes a little sense!}

Perfect sense dafy, I omitted that, but the OP's fitter should understand.


There is an issue here that needs thinking about:(, why is the OP asking here if he has someone that knows what they are doing installing the kitchen, has to be said.