Everything You Need to Know About Wall Plugs

In this video, we're going to look at a bunch of different options that work from light tasks to heavy tasks so you don't waste your time and money and eventually end up having a really nice image that you'll love falling on the floor. breaking up, so here we go, I'll show you something right now. Dry

wall

screws into dry

wall

. Many people have the misconception that if screws are made for the material, then they should hold. The reality is that it doesn't hold anything. Okay, this is for bonding. drywall to the stud, not for hanging anything on drywall, so forget there are a lot of different anchors on the market today and some of them are designed just to hang on a picture and you don't

need

much, they have adhesives or that little bit. wire that has a kind of loop and sits on top of the drywall.

What I love to use is a drywall anchor plate. Now you will see me use them in many different applications. I use it when I make a hole in tiles to mount accessories. In the bathroom, basically, this kit comes with the plug and screw that work together and the drill bit to get the perfect size and optimize it. I'll show you how it's installed and I'll show you what it looks like. on the back of the wall as well and then we'll put the hammer on it and try to pry it off and see how well it holds up so one of the advantages is that it's really lightweight it's great for hanging pictures and that sort of thing or even a mirror that maybe only weighs 20 pounds and the idea is that you just find your spot and drill the hole nice and clean, don't work around and make the hole too big, that's fine and you'll notice the plug as soon as it goes in there, no ones

need

ed special tools, the strength of this anchor is when you sink the head nice and flush with the drywall, then it just screws in and threads in, and the idea is that the screw is a little bit wider than the socket and makes the plug expands inside the drywall, it increases the compression, there are many things in the world now that you can set up like this, there are furniture and mirrors that have a small hole in the back and you slide and drop on top or you can put a wire image on top of that screw and that works pretty well now if you're just putting moderate pressure on there, it will work, but if you're going to mount something like, say, a medicine cabinet and you don't. i have the studs this is what happens it won't hold so this package says it's a number 8 screw and it's a quarter inch hole for the drill bit so whenever you go shopping make sure you get the right drill bit for the plastic anchor because not all kits are that big and come with their own drill bit.

This is the next one we are going to see. It says it has a rated capacity of 35 pounds. Not bad. It's a pretty significant amount of weight now. The back of this also says it's a quarter inch hole, so let's make another one. Now you'll see that this one is a little different instead of just a plastic case. It actually has sides that expand and come out, so you force this into the hole. It's a little more complicated of course anything can be fixed with a hammer and anything that gets abused as a hammer here we go I'll get the screw and we'll put it in we'll try it now this one is rated at 35 lbs like I said and it reacts very similarly except the compression mechanism seems a little more durable.

Let's try it with a hammer and give you an explanation. Yes, you can see what happens. Alright. I left a bigger hole. I don't

know

if it seemed to have more strength when pulled out of the wall but they have been tested so at 35lbs hanging weight that rating has nothing to do with if you are mounting a cabinet just remember now the next guy is this one , it is rated at 63 lbs and that means 63 lbs of weight to hang vertically, it is like a corkscrew stopper, it has a coarse thread and is designed as self-drilling so you don't need an extra drill with this, that's a benefit additional.

Now the idea here is that you just put your drill bit in there. Look, it's Philips God you

know

how much I love Philips and it just drills into the wall. You have to be very careful not to overdo it. drill here because then you'll end up drilling the hole, that's the danger, but they use something that you can be gentle and careful and trigger happy with, and we just put the drill at the time of the screws for the hammer. Wow, that actually holds up much better, but I'll tell you right now: if you're using this to attach a sink to a wall or a cabinet or something and someone sits on it, you're going to pull it off the wall. and destroy a good part of your wall too now to fix this you have to remove all of this of course prime it with some oil paint then you can patch it what a mess the next product is the metal version and this is the reason.

They invented this because the plastic version sometimes, in certain situations, especially if you have fire resistant drywall, the plastic tends to break off with the drill bit and then you can't get it all the way in and then of course you can't back out because it just gets maimed, so we're going to use the metal one now and see how much easier it is, okay, it's funny that Mac missed that shot, it happened so fast that we're. I'm going to try this again, voila, one has a much greater ability to be screwed and driven with some action and attitude, we'll have the screw give it the pull test, that actually turned out much easier, interestingly, I think It's because I tightened too much and what you saw there was the action of me drilling the hole, yes, yes, you could be very careful with those things.

The next type of bra is a little more unique and has a different type of design again, it is a plug. to put in drywall, but on the back you'll see it has this really cool arrowhead design, so you pinch it to stick it in the hole, but then when you tighten the screw it comes out the other end and widens . It grips the back of the drywall a little differently, so I guess we'll try the 5/16 to see if I can get this to work. Yes, it's wonderful about drywall, if the holes are a little small, you can just hit it. a little rotation and there you go to work.

I'll give this one a Yank test, hopefully I won't pull my shoulder. Okay, it's not that exciting. How do you expect more of that? You'll see the hole here is more rectangular and matches the design of that flared piece of plastic, it didn't seem to have any better grip than any of these other

plugs

and it still made a very interesting big mess, so before I go ahead and show you this monster . anchor I bought I just wanted to discuss the cost because this one has about 100 pieces and costs $18. Think about all of these other options coming in a package and remember 5 or 6 dollars which makes them a little over a dollar. each one, so think about it, if they all do the same job of holding the weight vertical and they will all break with any kind of force, there isn't much need to upgrade from the cheap ones to all these others.

That's my opinion, but how come the mother of all anchors? Here we go. There are only two in a package. Same price. These cost two dollars each. So I think to myself when I'm in the store. Two dollars per anchor, still only come in. drywall drywall is still so strong how good this can be so we'll find out now before we put this up. I'll just mention that there is another type of anchor called a toggle bolt and have you seen those? Yes, they were big. in the seventies you're going to put like your hanging lights and your potted plants and

everything

from the ceiling, what is it, it's a wing nut and you screw it on and then when you tighten it, it actually fan.

I have these huge arms the size of my fingers and that did a really good job. It is designed to be very similar. In fact, what happens here is when you screw in this causes the pivot because we're going to have to just glue it in. come in and we'll show you I don't know if it's me or the package I can't read the instructions thank God for cell phones you know we can fly this now I can read it okay here we go, the Cobra can I won't be responsible for every time you do something stupid, won't tell me, oh it's self-drilling, well I don't need to pre-drill, here we are, okay, and then there's a little bit of thread that I don't want. tighten it too much this time I'm not responsible for boring it, that wouldn't be a fair test for the Cobra, now you see it's not a normal screw, okay it's just a mechanical thread screw.

Put this in, it will be difficult to do. the hammer test because I've been, I'm going to check the back here, oh yeah, so when you pull it all the way back and you push it in and the back swings and locks solidly into the drywall and then you can push it back. . Take out the screw to the depth you need to hang whatever it's hanging on and the back stays intact, that's good, okay, here we go, let's see how if it hangs too much, that's okay, to be fair, I really pulled that guy Too bad it's a little open.

I hope the handle almost comes off the hammer. Wow, let's take a look at the mess which is quite significant. I think what we're learning here is that it doesn't matter what type of anchor you're using if you're going straight to the drywall. You're going to fail if you expect it to act as a structural component in your house if all you're doing is hanging something on the drywall, okay, but now I'm going to show you the best fastener you can. There we go, we've seen plenty of fasteners work and to varying degrees they will all work reasonably well depending on what you're fixing to the wall, but the biggest test for fixing things to the wall comes in the bathroom. literally roebucks, toilet paper holders, towel racks, all these things that go in the bathroom, when you buy them, they give you this cute little package of hardware and when you open it up, inevitably, they all have the same thing in there, there we go.

Of course, we'll give you the bracket that mounts to the wall and then this one sits there, that's cool, but they also give you this and the moment you see this, most people tend to think, oh greed, I can fix it anywhere, so you sit on your toilet and say, I like my toilet paper there and then, oh, the Robo could be perfect in this place and you carelessly go and drill holes and put these little

plugs

in and then , a week later

everything

falls off your wall it's because it's not working now the truth is I'm going to draw this, you have a stud, okay, this will be what we call our two by four, okay, it's three and a half inches wide For some reason they are called two-by-fours because originally the studs were actually 2 inches by 4 inches, but over time engineers realized that we don't need that much wood in the wall to do the job, so they made everything thinner now it's actually 1 and a half by three and a half so we have an actual half inch of drywall so we're going to have this little bracket that we're going to put in now if you put a screw in a little plastic plug right here , what are you doing? what you think will happen if there is no bolt, it will pop right out and if you use the screws that come in the package and you find a bolt, what you will find is that the screw only goes into the wood with the last two threads. bad idea, instead you want to use this pump screw, this is a 1 and 3/4 floor screw, okay, there's your bracket, here's your drywall, look how much meat you have, that was in the market, okay, this is where the best bra is your brain, okay, you need to do it. understand that your code allows you one and a quarter inches of space from the front of the stud to the back before the plumber or electrician can drill a hole, so you know, if you have half-inch drywall, how long may have the screw.

That's all there is to it because if the electrician wants a cable he makes a hole in it and the cable passes through that place and if you put a screw in it you are fine there is no contact there is no risk if when you put in a screw it blows through a line of water or power line, that's because someone else didn't do their job right and they have liability insurance for that. Now what we're going to do is a quick little demonstration of how to find a stud before we do it, if you're doing a new renovation, new construction hasn't closed in your walls yet, take the time to think in advance where you want them to be. all these accessories and put bracing on the wall and if you're not sure how to do it, you can click. on the card we have a video on how to prepare the walls for pouring, laying the drywall.

It's a brilliant way to show you how to add blocks anywhere in the house. You need it to tie to a wall and place on a low bar. It will be the solution to the problem, but the answer is that you go to the store and buy something like this. Okay, you stick it on the wall, press the button and it stays green as long as there's nothing in the way and when you arrive. that little red line, you stop and make a mark, it comes the other way, make it solid, okay, there you go, let's see how accurate it is, but the posts are an inch and a half wide and that marks it in one in fiveeighths Alright, the goal here is to aim for the middle of that, so what I'm going to do is mount this bracket on the wall.

Nice, grips very well, so this particular type of accessory does not. It doesn't come like many of them, it is not an allen key, so there is no allen key in the package, so make sure when you buy accessories you look at the box and confirm it is an allen key or not, because you may need something like this which is a very small screwdriver to tighten the set screw and that would be another whole trip to the store for no apparent reason so you put it on top of the bracket okay so move it there on the wall and then you tie in your little set screw.

Now this is done well with the correct type of screw. You should be able to hang it on the wall on this thing already for this, I don't. I even know that if I have enough strength to do this, I'm getting old and coming back, yeah, she won't go. It knows it's a fixture because it's fixed in place and before everyone complains that your drawing on the wall is why it kills these things. works on anything here we go problems okay if that was helpful guys then please like the video will it help a brother? Press the Like button.

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