I've got a selection of plasterboard or
drywall fixings here some of these work
better than others some of these are
very good
other ones absolutely useless so I'm
going to demonstrate each of these and
show you exactly how this will be used
we're going to start off with this one
which is the plus plugs standard plus
the Boyd Olaf wall fixing
so to start off we I'm going to drill a
seven millimeter Bowl I'm going to push
that in the old until it is flush and
now I'm going to take a number eight
what screw and we've derived that into
the center of the fixing so that screw
is now tight and if you were putting up
a picture frame or something like that
fixing would be ideal you have a very
lightweight fixing that you could use in
plaster wood I'm not going to try the
plus plugs every Duty plus the void
fixings I must say that I've tried these
about ten times and every time I have
tried them they have never worked
I'm going to drill a 10 millimeter hole
so I want to push that through the hole
and again I'm going to take a number 8
what screw I'm gonna screw that directly
into the center of the fixing you can
see what happened there
it just completely broke in pieces so
you can see that that fixing was pretty
much useless I'm now using a new fixing
this time I want to use a slightly
different screw it is still the same
size it is still a size 8 as you can see
that was broken off again so that is
more than useless we're now going to try
the universal plug these actually work
quite well and these are very useful for
light weight fixings
to use the universal plug he simply need
to drill the all of the corrector
diameter
pushing the universal plug insert the
screw and then tighten that up as you
can see that a scrunched up so that is
tightened against the plasterboard and
that has given us a very strong fixing
actually that would be very good for
holding light weight items this is a
ready driver which is a zinc worm screw
these are also actually made in nylon
these are made by several different
companies under several different names
these do actually come supplied with a
self-tapping screw but it is often too
long and it will actually bottom out if
you try and screw it all the way in
there if you do that there's a good
chance that you'll oversize them the
worm screw and damage the plasterboard
so for example if you is fixing that to
a plasterboard wild and you used that
line for screw you will be asking for
trouble because it would just bottom out
there is no way you would ever get
inside you would just damage the
plasterboard so if you ever need to fix
something thin like up to a plaster
board wall using a very driver is
critical that you buy a shortage
self-tapping screw
these are very simple to use and you
don't need a drill you can simply screw
them straight into the wall it's
important when you're using this you
actually apply some pressure to it when
you pushing it in and that will actually
create this horn all once it's in and
it's flush with the surface you can then
take the item that you want to fix in
this case were fixing this 90 degree
brackets awesome to put that on the
sizing up the self-tapping screw so
that's now giving us a nice firm fixing
sort of like when you fix things these
really are ideal they're very quick and
very easy to use
to use the rosette fixing you simply
need to make the correct size all which
in this case is 10 millimeter then push
the fixing into the plasterboard and you
do actually need a Torx driver for these
and that is a TX 25 so on the outside
that all
you can see that that is actually giving
us a very strong fixing
and then finally we're going to use the
snap toggle the snap toggles are one of
the best fixings for cluster Boyd we're
going to start off by filling a 12
millimeter or half an inch hole we can
then take the snap toggle push it
through the hole and then pull it back
and then slide down the plastic boards
and simply snap off plastic pieces and
then you can take your screw that's
supplied with the kit and you can screw
that in one sided size that will give
you an extremely strong fixing
we then have our wall anchors these can
be useful in some instances you can use
these without the setting to all bought
on plus the void that has not been
skimmed you will need the setting tool
which costs approximately between 10 and
20 pounds I'm going to start off by
filling the correct size the hole in the
cluster void on total mark we can push
the anchor through the hole so I'm just
gonna hook this one with a scoop like
saw want to see in that position you can
then squeeze on the Andals and that will
pull bike the scoop you can end it
remove the setting see old one starting
position and it does give you a
permanent fixing that can hold
approximately ten kilos so they can be
very useful they are normally very
inexpensive as well another common
fixing for plasterboard is the spring
toggle you can see they're made and
already so I'm just going to push the
spring toggle through the hole sometimes
I do actually after Paul is back in
order to get these things have all to
stop without a thing
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there they give you a very good fixing
but they do have the disadvantage that
if you won't do them you actually lose
your fixing down the cavity so I'll
swing toggles are another very useful
fixing and they can hold considerable
weight this is a Grippit fixing these
are relatively new
you do need to develop quite a large
hole for these to work so I'm going to
start off by drilling an 18 millimeter
hole we can then take the grip it and we
can push that in there
and then we just need to give that a tap
with the amur we can then use a
screwdriver to push in the center there
you're just going to push that in and
we're just going to turn the slots until
it goes as far as it will go
we don't say it's our bracket screw
supply I'm going to screw that into the
center of the grip it
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and that has actually given us a very
strong fixing so these are ideal if you
fixing larger items to a plus the Boyd
wall