Hollow walls and hanging a mirror

[Endulini]

Hi All,

I would like to hang a mirror (approx 15kg) on some hollow plasterboard walls and I'm not entirely sure (not having had much experience with hollow walls) what fittings would be appropriate. I have the screws from where the mirror was previously hung on a solid wall but presumably rawlplugs aren't going to be much use....

Cheers

[Roger Mills]

Unless the timber studs inside the wall are in a convenient place to screw into, you need some of these:

done up, they squeeze up and the bendy bits at the back clamp onto the back of the plasterboard. They're much easier to fit if you use the proper setting tool - but you can do it without.

can then hang fairly heavy loads on the wall with no trouble.

[Ron Lowe]

Our builders screwed some mdf to the wall into the uprights, and then glued the mirror to that, using special mirror adhesive. Apparently, there is special adhesive that won't strip the reflective surface off the back of the mirror, and that's important. Not tried, myself. I don't imagine it can be removed without some bad luck :-)

Actually, they stood the MDF off the wall with some battons to allow for some concealed lighting behind the top of the mirror, which works quite well.

[Tim Watts]

anything that balloons out behind the board will be fine - 15kg flat against the PB isn't much load.

Butteryfly toggles, or any of the new plastic jobbies that mushroom out should be fine.