How to hang a cabinet on a drywall with your own hands
How to hang a cupboard on a drywall? When decorating any room, it is always necessary to remember that it will be necessary to place the numerous functional equipment used every day: hinged shelves and cabinets, paintings.
To solve this problem, it is necessary to carefully consider the layout in advance so that there are no problems with fixtures for hanging objects, especially in cases of wall decoration with drywall sheets. How to ensure the reliability of fixing the cabinet with your own hands on a drywall wall, the article will tell.
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How to fix furniture on drywall
To choose the method of mounting the cabinet, you must determine:
- Its mass.
- Dimensions.
- Individual features of the room.
There are several methods for fixing equipment on a drywall:
- For items weighing up to 5 kilograms You can use simple fastening with durable special dowels and butterflies for drywall constructions.
- Items weighing up to 15 kilograms fastened to mounting rails, which are fixed on drywall and on the supporting frame for it, in several places with screws or anchors.
- If on walls made of drywall, hang a cabinet of sufficiently large weight, extended anchor bolts can be used. In this case, the products are attached directly to the base surface of the wall.
- Various lockers and other products can be attached to the walls of drywall using remote spacers.
To do this: when installing drywall constructions in areas where fasteners are expected, local spacers are attached so that their plane corresponds to the furniture attachment points.
There are also unconventional methods for fixing cabinets:
- With the help of a decorative frame made of chrome tubes that transfer the load from the weight of the furniture to the floors. The price of this design is quite acceptable, and the reliability of fixing any items is much higher.
- Fastening shelves and other interior products to the ceiling with special decorative cables.
How to hang light objects
DRIVA dowels can be used to fasten paintings, flower shelves, or kitchen items to drywall.
Their feature is the presence of technological elements that make holes and cut threads in soft materials. To screw such a dowel, a wrench with a large cross nozzle is used.
The fixing procedure is as follows:
- The product to be hung is applied to the wall.
- The existing loops indicate the mounting locations of the fasteners.
- The wrench nozzle is inserted into the slot of the dowel head.
- A hole will be drilled.
- The leading edge of the dowel makes a hole of the required diameter and cuts a thread through which the fastening element is tightly screwed inward.
Tip: In order not to pierce the partition through, a force should be applied so that the dowel fully enters the drywall, but does not reach its outer surface.
- The resulting polymer thread with a large thread will be firmly fixed in the wall.
- The screw of the necessary sizes is screwed in, which are included in the selected set, fixes the hinged loop and creates additional support for the inner surface.
Dowels can be used in another type.
Such as:
- "Butterfly".
- "Umbrella".
The existing sliding elements in such fasteners create a sufficiently large surface for their support, which allows them to withstand a decent load.
To install such structures:
- A drill of the required diameter is drilled in a drywall hole.
- A folded dowel is inserted.
- A self-tapping screw is manually baited, which is then screwed in until the sliding supports abut against the inner surface of the drywall sheet.
Tip: When making a self-tapping screw, you need to make sure that the dowel does not get inside, otherwise it will simply fall into the partition.
Before starting any work on fixing cabinets to a wall made of drywall (see Facing plasterboard walls: how to make), it is necessary to carefully, slowly, perform the markup, as seen in the photo.
You should not hope that rather wide loops can compensate for any errors, and it will be very difficult to redo the mount.
When marking:
- The distances between the product loops are measured.
- An anchor point for one loop is marked on the wall.
- A horizontal line is drawn from it with the help of a building level.
- The next loop is marked on the line.
- After marking the installation of all fixing loops, holes are drilled in drywall.
How to fasten heavy kitchen items
If the partition is mounted, and you need to hang the cabinet, you will need to use internal supports. It can be a metal frame made of profiles on which sheets are fixed.
Tip: To search for the racks of the frame under the drywall, you should take a regular magnet suspended on a rope. Deviations of such a simple home-made device will indicate the installation location of the elements of the metal structure.
When installing lockers and other heavy objects on drywall, anchor bolts and screws are used.
For this:
- After determining the attachment points of the products, the fixing method is selected.
- If the hinges on the cabinet are not suitable for the distance between the racks, the hinges are twisted or an intermediate bracket is attached to the wall to which the cabinet will be attached. At the same time, the material of the bar and its dimensions are selected taking into account the weight of the wall cabinet. It is better to use the bar as large as possible to create a uniform load distribution and protect drywall from premature failure.
- After attaching the plank to metal racks, kitchen cabinets are suspended from it anywhere. In this case, the main load will be perceived by the racks.
- The bar will be closed by cabinets.
- To eliminate the skew of the cabinets under them, stops are installed below the thickness of the bar.
For hanging very heavy objects, anchor bolts or screws are used.
For this:
- In the places of their fastening, in the drywall with a special cutter, holes are cut that will provide access to the base of the supporting wall.
- After installing the anchors, the cut-out part is putty back into place.
- The hole in the wall is drilled with a drill so that the dowel is installed very tightly.
- The length of the anchor overcomes the distance between the existing wall and drywall, and the entire load will be perceived by a rigid supporting wall.
Tip: For greater strength, the anchor bolt should be deepened to the full length of the dowel used.
The device of technological supports under drywall
It is necessary to provide for hanging heavy objects in advance, even when the casing is installed and the frame is mounted. For this, special technological supports or mortgages are attached.
In this case, you need to know the exact design of the room, the place of installation of hanging furniture. Correct placement of mortgages under the drywall at the stage of wall cladding will save the owner from problems in the future.
Installation instructions for technological supports offer:
- Prepare wooden blocks of different widths, but with a thickness equal to the width of the racks used for attaching drywall. This will create an emphasis on the wall without a gap. This is the main supporting element that needs to be prepared in advance.
- Marking out the location of future hinged structures, their height.
- Mortgages are mounted in the partition or directly into the wall.
- Wooden blocks are fastened to the wall with anchor screws with a hat so that drywall does not rest against the fasteners. The ends of the bar are inserted into the profiles. For greater structural strength, the ends of the bars and profiles are fastened together.
- You can increase the reliability of the structure by securing additional profiled metal sheets with screws over the mortgages.
A few recommendations when attaching cabinets to drywall:
- Fasteners should be used to meet technical and aesthetic requirements.
- To control the uniform distribution of the load, the fixation of all elements must be carried out strictly according to the level.
- When fastening objects on anchor bolts, their tightening force should be controlled to avoid deformation of gypsum plaster sheets.
It is not too difficult to fix the cabinet on the wall from drywall. After watching the video in this article, you can make sure that the process is quite simple and that all operations can be done independently.
