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    1. baletki

      baletki Well-Known Member

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      Has anyone ever put a heavy mirror on plasterboard? What's the best type if rawlplug to use for maximum safety?
       
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      Heavy mirror on plasterboard

      Use an 8mm plug, it'll be fine mate
       
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    3. baletki

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      Heavy mirror on plasterboard

      no nails the bastard on!
       
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      Heavy mirror on plasterboard

      Use a light mirror, a nail and a bit of string. Sorted!
       
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      Heavy mirror on plasterboard

      If it's a big heavy mirror and you are not just being weak then put at the very least an 8mm rawl plug with a screw to match the diameter and length
       
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      Heavy mirror on plasterboard

      Aye it'll be fen mate. Iv stuck them to it with 'sticks like sh!t' lol.

      If you've got space behind use the plaster board 'anchors' (hollow wall). If not use the heavy duty plaster screws
       
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      Heavy mirror on plasterboard

      The butterflys are ok, the worms not so great.
      OP, can you find a stud? (by stud i mean the bit of wood behind the gyproc, not the studs you usually find of a saturday evening!)
      Tap your knuckle along the wall, it should sound hollow, when you tap over the stud you will hear the difference.
      Fire a 75mm screw in there and your sorted fella.
      Your welcome!
       
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    9. laxgoaliesrhs

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      Heavy mirror on plasterboard

      There is a proper glue that comes in a silicone tube, if you use normal silicone it will make the silver come off the mirror and ruin it. You could score the plasterboard and stick it on with waterproof tile glue, but you will need to pva the wall after scoring it. If you have screwholes in the mirror there are proper silver cap screws, they work fine with proper plasterboard insert fixings. (I'd scratch the crap out of the wall and stick it on with compo ;-) But I am tight and my gyms only in my garage.
       
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    10. masoven4u

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      Worm fixings with no nails glue or something. Or cut the section of wall out and put some noggins in and screw to them
       
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