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[Diamond Pool Finishers]

i have a NEW-house and some walls are like three sheets of plasterboard fixed together thick,:yikes: on some walls, so i now have travertine ,adhesive ,tanking, then this three 6mm sheets of plasterboards system ,so how the hell do i get a good -fixing for fitting's ie radiator , and the shower screen , and toilet stuff in to this ?? any new fixing ideas out there ??

 

[Olz]

Never noticed 6mm plasterboard before,

I use fisher fixings, not sure how big (long) they do them though to be honest, never needed any really long ones.

 

[MARBLE_TONY]

Anchor plugs or butterfly would be my preference

 

[Muse2k8]

I've just had a blonde moment... Was trying to work out why the hell anybody would build a wall with 3 pieces of plasterboard stuck together. Was confused as to where they would run the cables etc and surely it would be quite thin and fragile. I had images in my mind of your basin on one side and Fischer bolts sticking out the other...

But then I twigged

 

[Muse2k8]

Have a look at Fischer though... Absolutely brilliant fittings. I got a nice box when I spent £100 on screws, bolts etc etc from them.

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

OK i think you have missed the point, there is no cavity behind the plasterboard in effect it is one solid wall of a few different layers trav,addy,tanking,plasterboard 18mm thick so all in all about 34 mm guys

 

[Muse2k8]

Oh so I wasnt having a blonde moment I was actually right :s

Strange way to build a wall...

 

[MARBLE_TONY]

And behind the plasterboard is? A stud wall?

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

the landing on one wall, a bedroom on another wall, a bedroom on another wall , and on the window wall thermalite blocks , no probs with this wall straight through and into the block!! it's juat the other three that are a headache

 

[MARBLE_TONY]

O!:yikes: you could use plasplugs but I don't like them never feel they give you a secure fixing. You could try a bit of old school and dowl it then screw in!?

 

[Muse2k8]

Sticks like excrement? Lol

 

[MARBLE_TONY]

Sticks like excrement? Lol

Can you still get that stuff I can't find it anywhere

 

[Colour Republic]

Not sure I've seen the building method you're talking about Dave, form the description I would be tempted to bolt anything heavy to the wall by drilling a pilot hole all the way through in to the other room then from the other side removing a small section of the 6mm boards say 3"x3" then using that recess to place a large washer and bolt said l fixtures to the wall that way. But that's all without seeing it and just picturing what you have as a wall.

 

[Colour Republic]

Never noticed 6mm plasterboard before.

6mm boards are normally glasroc not plasterboard and are flexible boards to build curved walls

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Not sure I've seen the building method you're talking about Dave, form the description I would be tempted to bolt anything heavy to the wall by drilling a pilot hole all the way through in to the other room then from the other side removing a small section of the 6mm boards say 3"x3" then using that recess to place a large washer and bolt said l fixtures to the wall that way. But that's all without seeing it and just picturing what you have as a wall.

good idea mate !! not sure i would like all the making -good the other side, yes i agree its a bit of a crap way of building a wall but this is what i have to work with !! i might use the sticks like **** stuff as well as a fixing if i can find anything,