Help!: How to fix items to a hardibacker board wall

[shneld]

Hello everyone.

I have a timber stud wall with hardibacker board and 10mm thick porcelain tiles.

I need to fix a shower rail and other various small items to this wall.

What is the best method of fixings items to this?

I was thinking using the metal plaster board fixings, the ones with the wings that grip that back of the board as you screw the screw. I would also flatten off the little spikes that grip into the face of the plaster board as it will be tiles.

Can anyone suggest a better method?

Many Thanks

Lee

[kilty55]

hi,i would pad the wall before fixing the boards over in the areas needed or have you already tiled

[Mike]

if you've already tiled, drill a bigger hole than the plug through the tile, then drill the backerboard for your plasterboard plug,then plug the backer board. that way you won't be hanging anything off the tiles

[Gazebo]

Best way was to set out fixings before you boarded and put timber noggins/studs in the right place,, but as you seem to be tiled up then Mike has the right idea...

[redlee]

The holes needed to get the butterfly fixings through are usually quite big, if its 12mm hardie you should be able to screw straight into it as you would with wood and get a firm fixing - i'm sure thats how i've done it in the past - its been a while.

[whitebeam]

If you had known where the fixings were going beforehand you could have fixed an extra peice of stud work to allow for weight issues.

[shneld]

hi,i would pad the wall before fixing the boards over in the areas needed or have you already tiled

Already tiled

if you've already tiled, drill a bigger hole than the plug through the tile, then drill the backerboard for your plasterboard plug,then plug the backer board. that way you won't be hanging anything off the tiles

I think this is the option I will take

Best way was to set out fixings before you boarded and put timber noggins/studs in the right place,, but as you seem to be tiled up then Mike has the right idea...

Lesson learnt ill do this next time.

The holes needed to get the butterfly fixings through are usually quite big, if its 12mm hardie you should be able to screw straight into it as you would with wood and get a firm fixing - i'm sure thats how i've done it in the past - its been a while.

Really, it is 12mm hardibacker. Its tempting to just screw into it as you say but for peice of mind I may use plasterboard fixings.

If you had known where the fixings were going beforehand you could have fixed an extra peice of stud work to allow for weight issues.

Im going to do this next time.
Thats is one thing I did was ensure there is plenty of noggings in (unfortunatley not where the shower head rail is going lo ) to support the wieght, the tiles are 300x600x10mm!

Do we recon just screwing into the 12mm hardibacker will suffice? Its a shower head rail that needs fitting, just your usual plain simple shower head rail/riser.
Thanks for your help everyone.

[Mike]

Try it and if the screw goes reasonably tight it should be ok, you could always put a dot of silicon under the riser fixing just to make certain but like you said better you put a stud in the back next time

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[redlee]

Try putting a 70mm wood screw part way into an offcut/scrap piece of hardie and see how hard it is to slacken off.

[shneld]

Try putting a 70mm wood screw part way into an offcut/scrap piece of hardie and see how hard it is to slacken off.

Good point.

Shall give it ago tomorrow.

Started to drill the holes tonight, need a new 8mm porcelain bit tho pain in the neck did manage 10.5 holes out of two 365 bits

[timeless john]

£1-40 per hole - that's a good return from 365.