attaching shelves to walls - advice required

dave030445

sniggings wrote: »

if you had seen the show you would know the claimed 180kg is in just one direction , one of the dragons pulled the radiator off the wall with a lot less force, that's when the inventor owned up...saying that tho should hold a picture no problem,

To be fair to the product the dragon (Peter Jones) pulled a large piece of plasterboard off the wall the fixing was still attached to the plasterboard so the fixing didn't failed. but plaster board is not that strong to use as a fixing. if you pulled anything hard enough with any type of plasterboard fixing you could quite easily pull it off.

Avoriaz

robatwork wrote: »

Interesting product Tony.

Not sure I'd entrust my plasma TV to being secured just to plasterboard, no matter how many Dragons invested. I'm oot, like the TV probably would be.

Me too, although I would never attach a TV to a wall anyway. I like them on a stand at eye level.

If I did, or wanted to attach something of similar size and weight, I would use wooden battens secured to the wall timbers behind the plasterboard.

Ebe_Scrooge

Avoriaz wrote: »

Me too, although I would never attach a TV to a wall anyway. I like them on a stand at eye level.

If I did, or wanted to attach something of similar size and weight, I would use wooden battens secured to the wall timbers behind the plasterboard.

This ^^^^

With the best fixings in the world, it's still the plasterboard that's taking the weight, and plasterboard is not strong stuff. For anything with any weight to it, you need to be screwing directly into the studs, or else into a batten which is in turn secured to the studs.

sniggings

dave030445 wrote: »

To be fair to the product the dragon (Peter Jones) pulled a large piece of plasterboard off the wall the fixing was still attached to the plasterboard so the fixing didn't failed. but plaster board is not that strong to use as a fixing.

the point of the fixing is to keep the object attached to the wall not to a piece of plaster board on the floor so stop being daft,so in that respect it did fail.

It's a good product wasn't saying it wasn't, just pointing out as they did in the show it's 180kg depending where the force is applied.