Hanging something on drywall

[aemeijers]

Stand there at bat at it for an hour. It'll come right down.

[Tony Hwang]

Hi, I agree this the pretty well only option. Before the drywall is all messed up, LOL!

[aemeijers]

A long vertical board that catches the stud by the door with at least 2 real screws, and a couple molly anchors through the drywall on the hollow side, will be solid enough.

[Ron]

Ah, it's been there for 8 yrs.

[Ron]

rs

Wait a minute, what do you mean by "bat at it"? Shake it around? Yeah OK, I'll get right on that. Not hardly the same as a small plastic baby gate. And if the friggin lock jam is ALSO loose, someone isn't doing something right.

[aemeijers]

Ron wrote: (snip)

Without anyone swinging it back and forth, I'll wager. Not at all the same thing. If OP just hung the gate and never touched it again, it'd be fine, too.

[AZ Nomad]

I have old drywall off framing 2" from a firewall. Drywall was too flimsy for inserts and the weight of the speakers (15 lbs); toggle bolts didn't have room to pop.

Solution was to put a couple of 3/8" x 6" x 16" pieces of wood against wall, screw them into the studs, paint to match, and hang the speakermounts of them.

[aemeijers]

Which is pretty much what most of us in this thread suggested to OP for his baby/dog gate, albeit with pretty hardwood versus painted plywood. Painted plywood squares can be seen all over the endlessly remodeled 100 YO office building where I work, where various crap has been mounted over the years. The old horsehair plaster over brick had a lot of the same problems as the more modern drywall over steel stud partitions. (Funky old building- look around enough, and you can find almost any construction technique from the last hundred years used somewhere in there.)

[MasonJoshua]

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