What’s on the Fixing to Walls poster
A 6-row table: Wall · Fixing · Note.
The wrong fixing pulls out, usually with the plasterboard attached.
- Brick / block — Wall plug + screw — Masonry bit, hammer action
- Plasterboard, light — Self-drive anchor — Up to ~5 kg
- Plasterboard, medium — Metal butterfly / spring toggle — Up to ~20 kg
- Plasterboard, heavy — Fix into the stud — Use a detector
- Tile — Drill slowly, no hammer — Tape over the spot first
- Concrete lintel — Masonry, hammer action — Very hard going
Anything heavy — a TV, a shelf with books, a cabinet — should be fixed into studs or masonry, never into plasterboard alone.
Questions about the Fixing to Walls poster
- What’s on the Fixing to Walls poster?
- A 6-row table: Wall · Fixing · Note. The wrong fixing pulls out, usually with the plasterboard attached. Brick / block — Wall plug + screw — Masonry bit, hammer action; Plasterboard, light — Self-drive anchor — Up to ~5 kg; Plasterboard, medium — Metal butterfly / spring toggle — Up to ~20 kg; Plasterboard, heavy — Fix into the stud — Use a detector; Tile — Drill slowly, no hammer — Tape over the spot first; Concrete lintel — Masonry, hammer action — Very hard going. Anything heavy — a TV, a shelf with books, a cabinet — should be fixed into studs or masonry, never into plasterboard alone.
- Who is the Fixing to Walls poster for?
- Fixing to Walls belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning repair can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Fixing to Walls poster?
- Knock on the wall. Hollow means plasterboard; solid means masonry. The fixings are different. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Fixing to Walls belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Fixing to Walls?
- Choosing an Adhesive, Soldering and Bleeding Radiators sit alongside Fixing to Walls in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Choosing an AdhesiveSolderingBleeding Radiators
- Is the Fixing to Walls poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Fixing to Walls downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Fixing to Walls poster print at?
- Fixing to Walls is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Fixing to Walls loses nothing.Printing guide
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