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Plasterboard crumbling around a light fitting
Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 3.12 PM
I'm having a nightmare attaching a wall light fitting in my bedroom. I used rawl plugs to secure light fittings to a plasterboard wall. One worked fine but I'm having major issues with the other one. First of all, I wrongly measured and drilled where the rawl plugs would go to fit the light onto the wall. To fix that, I drilled new holes (with correct measurements) just slightly above the first ones. This secured the light base, but as soon as I attached the glass shade, it came off together with rawl plugs. It seems that perhaps all the holes were drilled too closely together (obvs wanted to keep the lights more or less level), pulling the plasterboard off between them, but it's also crumbling a lot. I'm thinking it might also be the cause of moisture and the plaster gradually softening. Is there a way of filling these holes with something secure to be able to attach rawl plugs in that area again since all my electrics are already fixed there? For example, is Polyfilla going to work?
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