Fischer Heavy Duty Plasterboard Fixing - Pack of 25

Plasterboard Fixings are essential if you want to reduce the risk of your shelves, pictures and other wall-hanging objects pulling out of the wall. Plasterboard is essentially a layer of compressed plaster dust between two sheets of paper. If the structure is intact, it is reasonably strong and resilient. However, as soon as this structure is broken by a screw or nail, the plaster inside will be liable to crumble and getting a good fixing is difficult.   If possible, when fixing to a plasterboard wall you should try to screw into a stud or noggin (electronic stud finders are available to help you locate them within the wall) but sadly this is not always possible or practical. Luckily there are numerous specially designed plasterboard fixings which can help to overcome this problem.   All plasterboard fixings are designed to do basically the same thing: Increase the area of plasterboard which is put under stress by the object hanging from it. However, not all of them do this in the same way and not all of them are suitable for all applications. As a genreal rule, use plastic or metal screw in fixings for light loads, plastic anchor or spring toggles for medium loads and metal spring toggles for heavy loads.