Mounting Ikea wall cabinet to plasterboard

Queenrudi

Hello,

I hope someone here can help with me.

We have bought a fairly tall/ heavy Ikea bathroom cabinet, which we want to mount to a plasterboard wall.

It is a new-built property and we have already tried to locate the studs. Unfortunately, these seem to be metal, not wood, and I am frankly a bit concerned to drill into those.

Does anyone know if this would work at all with the right fixings and/ or ply, or will I simply have to give in and look for a different cabinet?

The exact product is the Ikea Godmorgen high cabinet,
Width: 40 cm
Depth: 30 cm
Height: 192 cm

Many thanks!

TheCyclingProgrammer

GripIt fixings?

Risteard

Self-tappers could be used. However I would try to avoid hanging too much weight from them.

jakemillspaek

A cabinet well over 6ft is not going to "hang" very long on an internal stud wall.Blimey what do you put in it?
If you could reach the brickwork on an external wall you may have a chance.
Don't think you thought this one through.

TheCyclingProgrammer

jakemillspaek wrote: »

A cabinet well over 6ft is not going to "hang" very long on an internal stud wall.Blimey what do you put in it?
If you could reach the brickwork on an external wall you may have a chance.
Don't think you thought this one through.

The loading weights of the brown and blue gripit fixings would suggest the load would be handled no problem:

http://gripitfixings.co.uk/new-gripit-2015/

Le_Kirk

If you hang the cabinets from a "rail" that will normally bridge more than two studs which will help with load sharing but also if you use a rail in conjunction with several GripIt fixings (as suggested by TCP) that will also help with load spreading.