expansion scews for interfit wall mount
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These ones? (on the left) http://www.juststudiogear.co.uk/catalog/product/gallery/id/10202/image/2469/
The trick is to get the hole in the wall exactly the right diameter and length for the expansion fixing. The fixing is tapped into the wall leaving the threaded end (and washer and nut) sticking out.
Assuming you've made the hole the correct size, the sleeve will expand as you tighten the nut (with a socket spanner). Once the fixing is really tight in the wall, back off the nut and take it off the thread. Fit the mounting bracket over the thread, replace the nut and retighten with a socket.
Diagrams at bottom of this page illustrate it http://www.rawlplug.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7&Itemid=25
Assuming you've made the hole the correct size, the sleeve will expand as you tighten the nut (with a socket spanner). Once the fixing is really tight in the wall, back off the nut and take it off the thread. Fit the mounting bracket over the thread, replace the nut and retighten with a socket.
Diagrams at bottom of this page illustrate it http://www.rawlplug.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7&Itemid=25
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Thanks guys, I took a quick trip to B&Q and it turns out those ones were not for hollow walls, managed to pick up a few decent stronger looking ones and I now have a 2.72m paper roll up. 
The new studio / office is coming along nicely!
The new studio / office is coming along nicely!
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Thanks guys, I took a quick trip to B&Q and it turns out those ones were not for hollow walls, managed to pick up a few decent stronger looking ones and I now have a 2.72m paper roll up.
The new studio / office is coming along nicely!
Hmmm, hollow walls eh, well personally if they are standard plasterboard walls there isn't a single hollow wall fixing sold in B&Q that I'd trust longterm to support a triple 'expan' type system and I'd certainly be very cautious using more than one roll of paper - but then again I'm a belt and braces kind of guy and anything I fix to the wall is tested by it having to support my weight and I'm a big f#t b##ger.
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