Hanging wall units on plasterboard

[Guest]

Hi guys, I wonder if you can help me.

As the subject states, im hanging some wall units on plasterboard walls. Im concerned about the weight of these units and whether a couple of heavy duty plasterboard fixings will do the job or will they just be ripped out of the wall once the unit is underload?

I read somewhere that you can buy a metal strip which fixes to your battens so you can spread the weight of the unit, but b&q, screwfix and howdens were all useless in supplying that. I found a cabinet hanging rail at woodfit but they want £30 for a 3m length and I only need 1m.

So how do you do yours? Do you use a metal strip, piece of plywood, sticky-back plastic?? Advice welcome.

Help me kitchenfitter guys, youre my only hope! ;-)

Al

[Guest]

Just to clarify,, its a stud wall the units to be hung on.

[jonny round boy]

The search box is quite useful.....

[Guest]

The search box is quite useful.....

as a Guest I cant view that thread. if you want to be helpful you could always copy and paste for me

[jonny round boy]

Or, you could register.

It's not like it'll cost you anything, plus I'm sure you'll find lots of other useful stuff (and indeed useless stuff too) on here...

[Guest]

Kinda defeating the object of being a Guest...

[jonny round boy]

Me copying the info from that page (as per your request) would kinda defeat the object of having pages only accessible by registered members, too....

[Guest]

Have no fear, Ive signed up and await Authorisation from stretch.

This TopSecret info better be good!

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[jonny round boy]

Glad you finally got the message.

Though if it were top secret, I wouldn't have brought it to your attention...

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