Advice regarding securing furniture to the carpet floor?

Kamran

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Are you sure your walls are plasterboard over stud? They might be plasterboard dot-and-dab over masonry, in which case you can just go through the plasterboard and into masonry.

How can i check this?

Owain_Moneysaver

Kamran wrote: »

How can i check this?

stick a sharp pointy thing into the wall (taking care to avoid buried pipes and cables) and see if you hit solid masonry behind the board, or thin air.

Cornucopia

Kamran wrote: »

Thanks for this. Very helpful. Have been doing some thinking - is it not possible for me to get the Timber Yard or B&Q to cut me a piece of wood in the shape shown in the following photo? Wouldn't that solve the problem?

Unless you want to do this for cosmetic reasons, there isn't any need to cover the wall with wood like this. I would be looking to bridge two studs with 3 batons (maybe 2cm x 4cm x 65cm) each running horizontally across the wall at the required height to screw the bed into (so 6 batons in all). Wood can be quite expensive, so it's a good idea not to use more than you have to. Although a heavy item like a bed does need anchoring to the wall studs, you can probably improve stability by attaching the batons to the plasterboard in a couple of places, too. (Use suitable fixings for the type of wall it turns out to be).

In a modern 6th floor flat, it's quite likely that the floors will be concrete, but I would steer clear of cutting holes in the carpet, in any case.

Kamran

Cornucopia wrote: »

I would be looking to bridge two studs with 3 batons (maybe 2cm x 4cm x 65cm) each running horizontally across the wall at the required height to screw the bed into (so 6 batons in all). Wood can be quite expensive, so it's a good idea not to use more than you have to.

As discussed below the reason I can't do this is because of the location of the plug sockets.

peachyprice

Wouldn't it be easier to just carefully cut out the section of skirting board so that you can fix the bed flush to the wall, just keep it in a safe place for if/when you need to put it back.

Kamran

Cornucopia wrote: »

Unless you want to do this for cosmetic reasons, there isn't any need to cover the wall with wood like this. I would be looking to bridge two studs with 3 batons (maybe 2cm x 4cm x 65cm) each running horizontally across the wall at the required height to screw the bed into (so 6 batons in all). Wood can be quite expensive, so it's a good idea not to use more than you have to. Although a heavy item like a bed does need anchoring to the wall studs, you can probably improve stability by attaching the batons to the plasterboard in a couple of places, too. (Use suitable fixings for the type of wall it turns out to be).

In a modern 6th floor flat, it's quite likely that the floors will be concrete, but I would steer clear of cutting holes in the carpet, in any case.

I think I get now what you meant. Instead of three batons running the width of the bedframe, you're suggesting 6 smaller batons that literally connect each to 2 studs and the bed frame?

Kamran

Guys i've tried to drill a few small holes in the wall to locate the stud, and it feels like I'm hitting metal. In fact i'm pretty certain it's metal. Some sections of the wall go straight through the plasterboard into air, and some sections I hit a very solid structure that won't budge, creates a metallic grinding sound and also the tip of the drill is left with these tiny metal flakes.

Any ideas?

Kamran

Kamran wrote: »

Guys i've tried to drill a few small holes in the wall to locate the stud, and it feels like I'm hitting metal. In fact i'm pretty certain it's metal. Some sections of the wall go straight through the plasterboard into air, and some sections I hit a very solid structure that won't budge, creates a metallic grinding sound and also the tip of the drill is left with these tiny metal flakes.

Any ideas?

I've come to the conclusion that my flat doesn't actually have wooden studs. I tried to wall mount a TV a month or so ago and encountered this same horrible metallic noise, with no give, when trying to drill.

Question is, what does that mean for mounting things?

Kamran

Kamran wrote: »

I've come to the conclusion that my flat doesn't actually have wooden studs. I tried to wall mount a TV a month or so ago and encountered this same horrible metallic noise, with no give, when trying to drill.

Question is, what does that mean for mounting things?

Sorry to keep this thread going! Was just wondering what people think about metal studs? When I drilled (multiple times with a small drill) into the wall, I hit a metal frame of some sort. Had a similar problem when mounting my TV a few months back.

Option 1 - use a different technique (?) or equipment to drill into the metal studs/frame

Option 2 - floor mount (likely concrete)

Suggestions apprecaited!:T