Installing a radiator into a plastered wall - Lots of problems. Help!

[Cyanide]

About to tackle the same problem myself.

Was going to go for "no more nails"ings two strips of wood to the wall, letting that set then drilling through it one of those splaying metal rawl plugs if I can get ones deep enough for the wood and plasterboard.

Won't work, if the batton is on the radiator side of the platerboard it's just as likely to fall off. No more nails is good stuff but radiators are sodding heavy when they're full.

Just to reiterate these should do it just fine. I've held 60kg on a wall with 5 of them on more than 1 occasion

 

[Skalaberg]

Won't work, if the batton is on the radiator side of the platerboard it's just as likely to fall off. No more nails is good stuff but radiators are sodding heavy when they're full.

Just to reiterate these should do it just fine. I've held 60kg on a wall with 5 of them on more than 1 occasion

you forgot to mention the latex one piece

 

[TheCrow]

Won't work, if the batton is on the radiator side of the platerboard it's just as likely to fall off. No more nails is good stuff but radiators are sodding heavy when they're full.

Just to reiterate these should do it just fine. I've held 60kg on a wall with 5 of them on more than 1 occasion

Its to fix those that have pulled out of the plasterboard. Same as the OP the plasterboard underneath them just disintegrated and they have pulled out.


Would nomorenail'ing some strips of wood not spread the weight and stop plugs pulling out (as the wood wont disintegrate)?

 

[Biohazard]

I'm actually thinking there was something wrong with either the hole, or the screwing. I just checked the hook things, and the problem actually lies there it'll seem. Didn't do any diagnosation after it failed for the 3rd time just threw it all in a corner and had a drink.

Is this a problem with the hole, or the person holding the tool? What could cause this to fail?

You can see the proper fixing at the back and the one that failed at the front - did I over screw or something?

you just need to screw that one at the bottom more until those legs tighten down on the board then it will be fine. the one at the top, you may have over tightened it yes. Tighten these things up by hand!!!! you can feel it when it 'tugs' into place.

like this, the brown being your board there..

 

[RobH]

I have used these fixings everyone has posted, they are also known as hollow wall anchors and work really well if used correctly. I put up a heavy duty steel coat hook assembly with two of them into a plasterboard wall and it was solid. You need to make sure you get the correct size anchors for the thickness of the plasterboard or the spider legs won't open properly (or they will open but be weak). As someone else mentioned, you need to do them up by hand after you drill the hole as they start off a little tight and then become really easy to tighten up until you get to the last part where the legs dig into place. From you pictures it looks like neither of them were dug into place correctly.