- Now correct me if I'm wrong,
but I think the biggest fear
that most people have, when it comes
to hanging a heavy picture or a mirror,
(groaning)
is that the wall anchor won't hold
and your precious artwork,
print, or mirror
will come crashing down to the ground.
Not good.
Bend your knees people!
Bend your knees.
Cor blimey!
That was heavy!
And to make matters worse, your anxiety levels
are heightened even more
when you don't have the option
of a wall stud
to attach your hanging fixture to,
which means that you're relying entirely
on the strength
of a wall anchor that's been attached to a fitted,
to the drywall or plaster board.
Now look, there are all types
of wall anchors out there suitable
for hanging pictures, mirrors,
and the like.
Some are good, and some are absolute rubbish.
And it can get a little confusing.
So without trying to overwhelm you
with all the different options,
I just want to show you this one here that I stumbled
across the other day, that really impressed me.
It's suitable for hanging heavy objects
like a big picture or a big mirror.
And the bonus is
is that you don't need a drill to instal it.
All you need is a No.2 Phillips Head Screwdriver
which most people have.
And for the record,
this is not a sponsored video.
And speaking of heavy things,
How's this?
A couple of days ago,
my faithful, old dog became really sick.
So I had to take the poor old fella to the vet.
Yeah, yeah! True story.
The vet picks him up, studies him for a bit,
and finally he comes back
and he says, look, I'm really sorry
but I think I'm going to have to put the old fella
down.
With tears running down my face,
I was absolutely shocked,
and I said, 'why?
What's wrong with him?'
And the vet says, 'Nothing major,
He's just really heavy.'
(heavy breathing)
And he, and he had a dicky back as well, so.
Yeah.
I had to put him down.
Just, too heavy.
Yeah, so.
(whistles)
Don't whinge!
That was the best I could come up with.
Don't whinge.
- G'Day Folks, Uncle Nick is here.
And in today's video
I'm going to show you how easy it is to instal one
of these self drilling, easy anchor heavy duty wall toggles.
That was a mouthful.
And then put it through its paces to see if in fact it lives
up to its weight bearing claim of 20 kilogrammes or 44 pounds.
Now just out of interest.
And to put it into perspective
20 kilogrammes or 44 pounds is pretty heavy.
It's the equivalent of a bag
of concrete mix or even an elephant's heart.
Have you seen one of those suckers?
They're huge!
and here's the mock-up that I've made for the demonstration.
Pretty fancy.
And can I just say before we start
that you only use a wall anchor in the absence
of a wall stud if you can find a wall stud to
attach your hanging fixture to, by all means
do that first as that'll give a far superior hold
than just the wall anchor alone.
And if you want to know how to easily find a wall stud
I'll leave a link to one of my videos and the card
which should be up over there somewhere
or in the description box down below.
So you can check that out later on if you need to.
Now, before I instal the anchor
I want you to pay close attention
to the two arrows on the head.
There's one here and one over there.
We want these to finish up
on a vertical axis like that straight up
and down and not a horizontal axis, which is side to side.
And I'll explain why that's important a bit later on.
So all you need to do is to mark where
you want the anchor to go.
And then with the point that little bit there, place it
on your mark and just give it a little bit of a, you know
push it in a bit like that
and then grab your Phillips head screwdriver
and just
clockwise drilling that
into the drywall or plaster board.
Now it's really easy.
Doesn't take much force at all.
We'll be through in a second
just like that.
And then just wind the anchor in
It goes in so easy and just keep on turning.
So that's nice and firm, till those arrows
like that are pointing straight up and down.
Now, if we can just take a closer look at those arrows
you can see
that they are straight up and down, which is vertical.
That's good.
But you also see on the side here
where it says 'easy toggle'
we want the 'E' on the end
of 'toggle' to be facing in the upward direction.
And then all you need to do is to get your picture
hanging fixture, place a screw that comes with the toggle
through the hole and into the wall anchor
just like that.
And this is where the magic happens.
As you push that screw in just like that.
It'll engage the lever around the back here.
And then all you need to do is to drive that screw in
in a clockwise direction.
And that will bring that lever in
until it fits up as tight as a drum
up against the back of the dry wall or the plasterboard.
Now we get that nice and straight.
Give it a bit of a tighten and
boom.
How easy is that?
Now remember earlier we spoke about the arrows
on the head of the toggle facing up and down.
Because we did that, you can see how
the lever is now sitting vertically and not horizontally
which makes this stronger in regard to downward pressure.
Now, I also had mentioned how
on the word 'toggle' the letter 'E' needed to be
facing upwards with the arrow?
Because we did that.
The long section of our lever is facing up
or on top and not down below, which also makes this stronger
in regard to downward pressure.
Now, one more thing regarding the magical letter 'E'
and that is because it's facing up,
If we wanted to remove this toggle
all you need to do is to remove that screw, take it out
that lever that will then drop
And then all you need to do is to unscrew the toggle
from the wall
And you're good to go. Relatively mess free
and with minimal fuss.
If the 'E' was facing down that lever wouldn't drop
and removing that toggle would be much more difficult.
Okay. Folks time for the fun stuff.
And that's the weight bearing test.
And to make it a bit more interesting
I've strategically placed a dozen beautifully
fresh free range eggs directly
under the weight to soften the impact
in case of wall anchor failure.
I think it should do the trick and I've called it
my Yolk Separator. Anyone for an omelette?
Let's do it.
- Okay. Let's kick off with a 10 kilogramme weight.
It's pretty heavy.
Right-o, Here we go. Fingers crossed.
Look at that.
Beautiful.
Okay.
Let's up the ante a bit and he's heavy.
Okay, I'm now upping the ante.
We've now got 15 kilogrammes.
And can I just say that in my entire life I've never
hung this much weight of a single toggle.
- There we go,
wish me luck.
Can I get it up there?
Right, 15 kilos.
Check that out.
Pretty happy with that.
(heavy breathing)
That's heavy.
- I think the hook might give way
before the anchor does.
Alright, let's go for 20.
- Okay, here we go.
It says 20 kilogrammes on the tin.
Let's see how true that is.
(heavy breathing)
Oh, cool, blimey is it heavy!
Right-o,
(heavy breathing)
Here we go,
(clapping)
Check that out folks, 20 kilogrammes.
- That is not too bad.
- I like it. Okay, I want to see some scrambled eggs.
Here's 30 kilogrammes. I can hardly lift it.
Here we go,
(heavy breathing)
blimey charlie.
And we got,
(heavy breathing)
alright, 30 kilogrammes.
Check that out.
How good's that? That's amazing.
Oh, no scrambled eggs though.
Disappointing. Right-o, I've got to get the whole thing up.
(heavy breathing)
- Now look, I'm just as disappointed as you are
regarding the lack of scrambled eggs.
So to rectify that
I think there's only one thing that I can do.
- Bombs away.
(eggs cracking)
(Plate bouncing on the floor)
Whoops. Would you like some avocado with your eggs?
Now, That folks is one impressive little wall anchor.
It's so easy to use
and it does exactly what it says on the tin.
Now I would have loved to have done this to failure
but unfortunately my puny little arms couldn't
lift much more than those 30 kilogrammes to lug it
up on top of that hook.
But I reckon after all that
I think that deserves a great tip knackers!
Now, if you want to see more videos, just like this one
I'm going to leave a link
to my 'how to find a wall stud' video
which should be popping up over there
Just about now. Hope to see you there shortly.
- Alrighty. After all that, I think I need a cup of tea.
So till next time, be good.
Be safe and I'm out of here.
Cheers.