Rad on plaster board wall

[cr0ft]

I got a customer wanting me to fit a column rad to a wall that's been "dot and dabbed" I am not overly happy because it's not like normal rad brackets that spread the load these are small brackets that use m10 bolts. There is only a 10mm gap to the solid wall behind and he seems to think I can just bolt it straight to the wall, I am not happy with this as the bracket needs to be solid to the wall not 20mm away from the wall!!!!! Any ideas what to do to get round this????

The plasterboard is the wall.. The customer is right on this one. Just use frame fixings, usually 100mm to screw straight through the plasterboard into the masonry wall. Once the bracket is on and these are done up tight you won't be moving the bracket at all, that's for sure. We've fitted rads this way for 6 years and have never had a callback. We offer a free 2 year warranty on all of our work so you can guarantee we would get called back if there was a problem with this method.

 

[Millsy 82]

Anybody used those new plasterboard fixings that they reckon can hold 150kg!!!! I have no doubt the fixings can but not the plasterboard.

To the op I would get holesaw out, small block of wood then rawlbolt through it. The rad won't move then.

 

[cr0ft]

I've used them matey. They are a real pain to fix to be honest, or at least they were to insulation backed plasterboard (board with 50mm insulation on the back). Plasterboard is incredibly strong in shear, i.e. resisting the force of gravity pulling a radiator straight downwards off a wall. If in doubt try ripping plasterboard apart by stretching it along it's length, it's the same thing. Good luck on that

 

[kris]

Is that the ones that were on dragons den. ? Common issue with plasterboard which we always look for a better fixing but at end of day the plasterboard is the problem .
Regarding the column rads . I'd mark where brackets are going and masonry drill all my holes and put raw plugs right into stonewall and just b4 i screw brackets on I'd pump some sticks like sh$t in the hole and screw up brackets and leave to set for an hour or so . You can use really quick drying adhesive (15mins) all weather adhesive . Brilliant stuff even wet surfaces

 

[gassafe]

Anybody used those new plasterboard fixings that they reckon can hold 150kg!!!! I have no doubt the fixings can but not the plasterboard.

To the op I would get holesaw out, small block of wood then rawlbolt through it. The rad won't move then.

Yeah I used them once too, was not that impressed! Very fiddlily & I found the Fischer type umbrella fixing to be stronger on plasterboard.

There called Grip-it & claim up to 180kg lol! They also got backed by a dragon on Dragons den!!

 

[village idiot]

Yeah I used them once too,

There called Grip-it & claim up to 180kg lol! They also got backed by a dragon on Dragons den!!

and also got slatted by one of the Dragons

 

[Millsy 82]

Yeah I used them once too, was not that impressed! Very fiddlily & I found the Fischer type umbrella fixing to be stronger on plasterboard.

There called Grip-it & claim up to 180kg lol! They also got backed by a dragon on Dragons den!!

Grip-it! That's the thing. I would never put 180kg on a plaster board wall that's like an oil combi!

 

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[stratplus]

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[AWheating]

No good for a platerboard cavity wall though.

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