Hanging a heavy picture on plasterboard???

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A question for all you DIY'ers out there.....

I have a framed print (that has cost me a small fortune by the time I got the hand made frame done) which is 30" x 30" square, in a perspex frame, but still weighs a fair bit. Now I want it putting up on the wall, which is a plasterboard partition wall.

Dave keeps telling me it is too heavy to go on the wall (poor excuse for not wanting the hassle of doing it methinks!). Where I want the picture to go, there is one vertical joist to the far left which could possibly be used, but mainly, the hooks or whatever we use will have to go into the plasterboard.

Please give me some ammunition and tell me that the pic will go on the wall without pulling the wall down :) It's been stood at the bottom of the stairs for about 3 months now, and I get the same excuse every time I ask him to sort it out :help:
 
you can get plaster board fixings that expand behind the wall when tightened to grip the plaster, check them out!!! :D
 
Or you could make it backfire on him and say "Fair enough...build a better wall then"
 
Vertical timbers in plasterboard walls should be 16" apart. Try using a joist finder.
 
Min

I used 2 of those plaster board anchors in the screw fix link to mount a frame from venture.

The picture cost a small fortune, so i didn't want to risk finding it on the floor after pulling through the plaster board, in hind sight......2 was over kill!
 
Me and a lad at work hung a two projector screen brackets on a plasterboard wall using the metal butterfly wall plugs. The screen and the brackets are still there years later.
 
Wot shogun sed except I thought it was 18" apart :)
 
In my view the best way to fix anything into plasterboard whatever the weight are thiese little gems ! go to Screwfix, Fixings, Metel RediDriva.
They can be bought in smaller quantities from B&Q or Wicks
 
I've got a tv mount bracket held up with heavy duty plasterboard butterfly wotsits. Not only does it hold up the tv (crt not lcd) it will even take my weight!!!

Don't try to faff about finding the vertical timbers. The plasterboard fixings do the job - and do it where you want them to not where the timbers happen to be.
 
Maybe that's why I kept running into them trying to fit sockets then :)
 
I always found the butterfly type to be a pain in the ass you can get a
( I can't remember what they are called) a large-ish screw type thing that screws into plaster-board with a hole through that and the actuall screw, screw into the middle of that I have hung radiators with them and no problems years on
I know they sell them in B&Q
Is there a B&Q in Aldershot? no but theres an A & an S ( the old ones are the best :D
 
Wow! Thanks for ll the replies everyone - no shirking out of it now... guess what Dave is doing at the weekend :lol: :lol:
 
Yes Cobra they are the ones I was referring to, wonderful things, all you need is a Phillips screwdriver.
So as you say, no excuses now Dave, GET ON WITH IT try and keep the little lady happy !!
 
you need to be a little careful of the redidriver type though if the wall is of the dot and dab type over thermalite blocks as they touch the block and then pull the plaster board through as they bottom out. :( :embarrassed: :(

As I found out when i was mounting one of my B+W M1 speakers :( :embarrassed: :(

the expanding type are much better ;)
 
digitalfailure said:
you need to be a little careful of the redidriver type though if the wall is of the dot and dab type over thermalite blocks as they touch the block and then pull the plaster board through as they bottom out. :( :embarrassed: :(

As I found out when i was mounting one of my B+W M1 speakers :( :embarrassed: :(

the expanding type are much better ;)
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ahh! yes! very good point DF, I was only thinking of a stud wall!
:bonk:
 
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