Crumbling plasterboard round halogen downlighter

[Jethro]

hi all

fitted 4 halogen downlighters in the bathroom a while back. They are the design with 2 wire clips, whereby the act of pushing the downlighter into place grips the clips, and swivels them to spring against the ceiling to hold them in.

3 are fine, but one, for some reason has the plasterboard cumbling a bit. This has enlarged the hole slightly and reduced the grip the light has.

Anyone know of a way to reinforce the hole in the plasterboard to prevent further damage and ensure the light stays in place ? I'm imagining something made of metal which can be fed round the hole and curved into place ....

[Tim Watts]

Jethro wibbled on Monday 01 March 2010 10:20

Paint the edge with PVA?

[Frank Erskine]

*If* you can get to the other side of the hole, you could fit a piece of some sort of heat resistant material such as formica above the hole, with a fresh hole cut into that.

[Jethro]

Hmmm, like a washer ? No problem to get to the under (top) side ... I wonder where to buy formica ...

[Vortex4]

Cut a giant washer from thickish but flexible plastic (look for inspiration in the binder dept of a stationery shop) Pop it up through the hole and glue it down with gripfill.

[NT]

remove anything crumbling, apply pva to strengthen whats there, and plaster or filler to make up whats lost. Result good as new, and only takes a few minutes.

NT

[ARWadsworth]

I fixed a similar problem by "no more nailing" some worktop edging strip to the circumference of the hole. A full loop is all that was required.

Adam

[Usenet Nutter]

He only said " such as Formica" ...all sorts could be used Hardboard,Plastic ,etc I'm sure you'll have something suitable around the house .

[SBandME]

replying to Jethro, SBandME wrote: You need a C-FIX for this. This will repair and reinforce your plasterboard hole and you don't need access to the ceiling, can be fitted from below.

order direct from them - quick service and product works.

[Brian Gaff]

Tell me dear user, how is it that I can easily deduce the original post was made on . posted on March 1, 2010, 10:20 am by simply opening the link on the post, but people with perfect sight seem unable to deduce this morsel of important information?

Brian

[Andy Burns]

Surely you mean "from us"?

[John Rumm]

Presumably because they are not so much interested in solving the OP's problem, as spamming their web site details anywhere they think there is a slightly plausible "hook".

[tabbypurr]

A product with no use, since a brush of PVA round a crumbling hole fixes it.

NT

[Brian Gaff]

Surely this is counter productive though, would you trust a company who had to resort to spamming outdated threads in newsgroups, come on, its a bit like the bloke in the pub selling off dodgy toasters. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Maybe it makes the stuff edible? Brian

[John Rumm]

I guess his hope is that it might help search engines spot the web site

- its black hat SEO / link spamming basically.

[Dlight25]

Try also Plaster-in liners from Downlightmagic.com - 2 or 10-pack via Amazon or e-bay

[Jonathan]

I did it with a cardbord strip and lots of PVA.

Jonathan