how should kitchen wall units be fitted to walls??

Question

the person who fitted mine has used concrete screws and one of them has now fallen off!!!

Answer 1

There are lots of ways to fix wall units, drill, rawplug and screws, some have attachments fixed to the wall that enables the unit to hang on

Answer 2

You will find that bodgey installers use cut nails to fix them into the wall.
BUT
There are two basic types of wall. Those of hard breeze block - not the soft sort which crumbles readily or plasterboard on battens - 'dry walling'.
The first sort will allow 'Rawlplugs' (avoid those shaped plastic thingies) to be drilled and long screws - say 3 inch to give about 2 to 2.5 inches into the plug. The screws must go throughrough the battens at the back of the cupboards not into the ply or hardboard of the back.
With plasterboard or soft breeze screw battens about 50 x 25 mm into the wall or into the studding the plasterboard is fitted to NOT the plasterboard itself. Sit the cupboard on the battens and then screw as appropriate into the breeze - this method stresses it up less - or into the plasterboard's battens.
RoyS.

Answer 3

Depends what your walls are made of. plaster board, hollow pot blocks, or normal bricks and mortar, if so I would use 11/2" to 2" No 8 or 10 screws, with the appropriately sized plastic rawl plugs, holes drilled with correct bit. Using a hammer drill. Making sure you have the correct brackets for the units. You could make a template of paper, with the fixing holes in correct position, hold it level against wall and mark fixing holes, with a pencil. Then drill and fix.

Answer 4

got this bad feeling you live in a cast concrete house. the walls can be a problem to get a good accurate fix. First, they should be on brackets, but, you need a good fix. The easiest way is to use an SDS drill bit in a pneumatic hammer drill (wickes sell)Make the hole too large, if you want 6mm, drill as best you can(drill will wander) say a 12mm hole. Mark where you actually want your hole with crosslines, clean dust from the hole,fill your hole with Rapid Setting Cement, Create accurate hole with (say) screwdriver in your cement. Insert the plug, leave to set. Your hole shoud be minimum 1 1/2 inches into the wall. Use my E-Mail (on profile) if you have problem.

Answer 5

use screws long enough to penetrate the cleat and the back of the cabinet and the sheetrock usually 1/2 inch and screw them into studs. i use a 2 1/2 screw when i set cabinets. when you find one stud you will probably find the others 16 inches to the right and left.

i just read john cobbs after i wrote mine and he might be right. use his advice if walls are concrete and add liquid nails if cabinets have backs on them.

Answer 6

no such thing as a concrete screw ..the normal way to fix a wall unit is to fit two brackets to the wall ..one in each side of top corner ..then hang units on the brackets ..then adjust inside the unit to level etc

Answer 7

Use spirometric cudgling pins located at 4 inch intervals on the vertical and a stress tape on the horizontal.

Answer 8

wouldn't like to be in your shoes, concrete screws don't exist (in the real traders world)

Get someone who knows what their doing

Answer 9

easiest way to refit would be to fix a batten to the wall and screw through your cupbaord, ensuring that the back is sturdy enough to take the weight

Answer 10

screws