In this video I will be showing you my secret trick for securing a fixing through plasterboard into a steel joist - that is so strong that I can literally hang off the fixing (as you'll see at the end of the video)!
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I work in the soft furnishings industry so I see a lot of failed attempts to obtain a good fixing into steel. Normally the fitter drills through the plasterboard, hits the steel and panics. He/she then simply puts in a light duty wall plug (eg a red). This simply isn't strong enough and I've been called to a lot of jobs where the window treatment has fallen down soon after.
There are a couple of things you can do in this situation:
- put in a better quality fixing (but this is problemmatic because typically you won't have much space between the plasterboard and the steel joist
- drill through the steel and put a wall plug straight through the steel. Not many people would go this far. It does work, but it's very hard to drill a 6mm diameter hole through steel to insert a plug. You tend to get through a lot of drill bits!!
So my trick in this situation - which SO FEW PEOPLE SEEM TO KNOW ABOUT - is to drill a small hole through the steel joist (eg 4mm diameter) and then screw straight into the steel. For this to work you have to use a screw that is only 0.5mm wider in diameter than the drill bit. I use Goldscrew wood screws, and tend to use a 4.5mm diameter screw with a 4mm diameter HSS drill bit.
You then have an INCREDIBLY STRONG FIXING!
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