Coat Hooks

Tried my normal rawplugs and it wasnt beefy enough to hold my coat hangers (4 on a piece of wood) Tried an anchor, that too pulled through the plasterboard. I wonder what else I can use that may do it. The coats are heavy, granted but i would have thought the heavy duty anchors would have sufficed. Its PB on both sides so no solid wall to attach to. Also with under the stais being sloped I cannot fix into the batton behind, would gripfill do? Any ideas folks?

Also I need to repair some PB that has largish holes in, as in the size of your hand holes. They havent gone all the way through, some are dented plasterboard some holes. I am currently using Polyfiller but with the ammount I need it will be expensive to do it with this. What else can I use?

Wickes do a 1700 grade lining paper but its expensive for such a small roll, does anyone know where I can get it cheaper? Havent seen over 1000 in B&Q.

Think that's it for now folks sorry for the numerous questions.

Sam

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Samantha Booth
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How much is expensive?

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George

From memory it was £7 a roll, but on their site its showing as £4 ish so I may have got that wrong.

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Samantha Booth

Funny that £4.19 for 1700 grade is dear even for wickes,my local wallpaper shop does it for £2.75..1700 grade.

Reply to
George

Will shop around in that case George. Thanks

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Samantha Booth

You could buy a bag of "Dry Wall Adhesive" Sammy but its about £4.95 a large bag and can be used like polyfilla but dries rock hard and at the same time it can sanded easily and has good solid adhesion properties.

Thing is you will have more than enough to do quite a few walls . ;-)

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George

Sounds like exactly the stuff I need. Do B&Q sell it as I live near one, mind we have a Screwfix trade place opening here next week. I am moving in !!

THANKS George

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Samantha Booth

Again wices is dear even for this. I get mine straight from the builders yard.

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George

As long as you move forwards after every answer, It is not a problem.

Dave

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Dave

adhesive.

Cant see it on wickes?

Reply to
George

Hey Dave I have done. I have learnt so much these past months. What a great group

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Samantha Booth

For a heavy load your only practical solutions are to either gripfill a larger plywood board to the wall and then fix to the centre of that, or to fit the rack with screws directly into a yimber behind the plasterboard. No pb fixing will resist a prolonged load on a levered coathook, imho.

Get a scrap of plasterboard, hardboard or plywood which you can fit through the hole and press against it from the inside (eg post it like a letter, and then turn it flsuh with the wall once it's inside). Butter the sides with filler or no-nails, and pull it firmly into place *on the inside*. You may need to rig a temporary support until it sets. Then you only need to fill the 12mm depth of the board, and it will be stronger too.

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Steve Walker

'One coat' or repair plaster - the sheds sell it in just about manageable bags for the same sort of price as pollyfilla, but for a much larger quantity. There are instructions for use on the bag - it's pretty easy.

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Dave Plowman (News)

Yes, I think that too.

Dave

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Dave

Plastering is not everyones cup of tea though. ;-)

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George

If you follow the instructions most will make a good job of patching a hole - it's probably easier than with polyfilla. I agree large repairs can be tricky.

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Dave Plowman (News)

Ideally screwing into a stud rather than the PB. Another solution if that is not possible is using a batten on the wall behind the hooks to spread the load and if possible allow attachment to a stud that way. You can even in extremis cut out a section of PB and replace with half inch ply. That will take a much better screwed fixing. It would probably need skimming to finish though.

Board fill is cheaper and sands easily - that will deal with the dents. For the holes, cut a patch piece larger than the hole and draw round it. Cut away the edges of the broken section of wall leaving a patch sized hole. The traditional way to hold the patch in place is with a batten or two inserted into the wall and screwed to the back surface of the PB via drywall screws through the front. The new bit can in turn be screwed to the batten.

A more modern version is the "Bear claw" drywall clip. These fit on the edge of the patch and allow you to simply push it into the hole, where they then grip the edge of the hole. They have the advantage of allowing you to use 1/2" PB to fix any hole regardless of the actual thickness of board used on the wall.

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John Rumm

Then fasten a piece of plasterboard in the hole by the same method.

and now only have to skim the plasterboard with a couple of mm of filler.

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<me9

have the clips protruding on the face of both - how can you caver them up?

"The clip is made of 0.38mm (0.015") thick metal (about the thickness of a corner bead), so it is easy to cover with joint compound. "

I don't think so.....

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The Medway Handyman

IME fixing even one coathook to PB is impractical. Yes it fixes ok, and yes it works... but over a year or 2 the pb gradually crumbles till the hook comes loose. PB just isnt strong enough. You need to fix your 4 hook rack to something more solid somehow, else I cant see it lasting.

Good suggestions already made. One thing I've never tried is sticking a few sheets of PB behind a hole so you get a thick fairly solid area a couple of inches deep to fix into.

NT

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meow2222

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