Dry Lined Wall Fixings

[tamtb]

Hi, again. Looking at changing my kitchen and fitting some wall units but the walls in the house are drylined. Are there any fixings that I should use for hanging wall units on drylined walls. If I can avoid cutting the plasterboard to fit a baton on which to attach the fixings then that would be super.

Thanks Matt

[The Medway Handyman]

Depends on what you mean by dry lined. If the walls are of platerboard fixed to timber studs you could fix into them, the PB itself probably won't hold a kitchen unit with much in it.

If its dot & dab plasterboard then you can go through the PB and fix into the brick/block behind it.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Another trick that is worth considering is to plate the area in question with MDF sheet screwed to the studs, and then hang the copboards on that.

It paints up with emulsion fine.

And is a first class base for tiles also.

[Christian McArdle]

Don't even think about attaching kitchen wall cupboards to plasterboard. Someone will die.

Use another method, like:

1. Swapping out the plasterboard for MDF or ply. Attach to that.
2. Remove plasterboard, insert noggings and attach to those.
3. Locate studs and screw through the back of the units into the studs.

Christian.