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Hanging heavy cabinets to Victorian house external wall

Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 3.26 PM

Hi I want to hang some heavy cabinets on an external wall in a Victorian terraced house. The drill went through the plaster almost without any resistance 7cm deep and I don't think I met the bricks yet. The other curious thing is when I blow in one hole, dust comes out from the other hole 15 cm apart. Could anyone advice what is happening here? I was drilling 2 cm from the intersection with the ceiling if it make any difference, but knocking on other parts of the wall far from the ceiling it sounds hollow. I wouldn't of course hang anything to a wall in this condition, but wanted to know if it's a good idea to just re plaster the areas where I want to hang my cabinets or better to do the whole wall? Any other solution to hang heavy things on this wall? Many thanks in advance for any advice.

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5 Answers

Sebastien GR Vanoni

Rating: 5 out of 5

Cardiff

Hello, In this instance I would use hollow wall anchors, to fix this you would need the setting tool too. All can be bought from Screwfix, Toolstation... https://www.screwfix.com/p/rawlplug-hollow-wall-anchor-setting-tool-kit/903kk All the best, Sebastien

Answered26 November 2021

K Building

Rating: 4.8 out of 5

Aylesbury

I would try to use chemical anchor but deeper, maybe 15 cm or so. Fit a thread bar then let the anchor dry then try it to check how solid is

Answered21 December 2021

Anonymous user

It sounds as tho at some stage the walls have been lined off . This could have been historically with timbers and lathe and plaster , or in more recent years with battens and plasterboard ! I would drill a small series of horizontal holes 25mm apart to see if there was fixing timbers ? If your drill finds one , then usually 400mm to 600mm should be the centre of the next one . You would be far better to fix to these !

Answered21 December 2021

G&D Property Maintenance

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Hemel Hempstead

Would not take the risk ,if possible cut out and see what there

Answered21 December 2021

WK PLASTERING

Rating: 5 out of 5

Clacton On Sea

Plaster has blown from brickwork hollow wall fixings will fail , wall needs hacking back to brickwork then Re plastering .

Answered21 December 2021