one of the most common questions that I get asked is how fix items to drywall
or stud partition walls it is actually very easy and all you need is a set of magnets
like that. these can help tremendously when you are fixing to a drywall or a
stud partition wall you can of course use plasterboard fixings but plasterboard
fixings are nowhere near as strong as the actual stud which is holding up
the plaster board obviously if you're installing something such as a TV which
would be seriously damaged if it was to fall from the wall you do need to ensure
that it is fixed correctly so this is a stud wall and as you can see it is
actually wallpapered so to start off we need to find out where the actual studs are
so to do that I'm going to use a small Neodymium magnet like that. All we
need to do is rub that over the wall until the magnet picks something up it
can take a while before you actually find the first one and what we are
looking for is the screw head which holding the plasterboard to the studs
I've actually found one just there so I'll just try and find another screw
this one there so obviously there is a stud running down there were the two
magnets I will move this way to see if I can find the next stud
I'll now go this way
so you can now see the three rows of magnets and that is where the studs are in
this wall so if you were to fix something very heavy to that wall such
as a TV you definitely want to fix it there where the studs are. If you do
that you can simply use a long screw maybe two or three inches long that will
screw straight through the bracket that you're using and straight into the wooden
stud behind so what you can do now you can draw a faint line on there you can then
take your bracket and you can fix that on the wall and with this one you can
actually just about get all three studs if you can't get three you can at least
get two of them so you could use that stud there and that stud there and that
will give you your fixing holes to ensure that the bracket is firmly fixed
to the wall these are the coach screws that have been supplied with the bracket
and it is essential that you use these obviously you can't just go drilling
that straight into the stud you do need to drill a pilot hole first before you
do that you need to find the exact center of the stud so we have now identified
where the screw heads are but we now need to find the center of the stud that
can be done using something like this this is a small hex key sometimes called
an allen key that is the smaller size that actually have and that is quite rigid
and will only leave a small hole if you don't have one of these you could use
a bradawl, a bradawl is the ideal tool for doing this so this is the part where the
stud is but we now need to locate the exact center of the stud so to do that
I'm going to use it I'm going to get it I'm going to push it into the drywall or
the plaster board you'll notice that is it's solid there so that is where we
stud is so I'm just going to come to the side a little bit it's still solid there
so the stud is still there I'll then move about another six mil away this time
that has gone all the way through
so I'm not going to move in the other direction solid there, solid again solid
again still solid and again it's gone straight through by
doing that we obviously know the stud is positioned there
so that enables you to use a screw and you can actually screw in the dead
center of that and then you are confident that you are in the center of
the stub if you got to the side of the stud obviously if the screw will not
take much weight and there is a chance that the screw could pull out of the
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