hi i'm charlie white and today i'm going to show you how to achieve the perfect fixing in plasterboard this is something i know quite a lot about because running a soft furnishings company we've always having to fix heavy objects and blastboard and so our reputation depends doing this well so what we're going to do toolkit I picked out the four best fixings to use in plasterboard as far as I'm concerned you've got an anchor fixing here and then you've got two Fisher products the Fisher PD eight and the fishing you x6 and then a rule blog wall fixing here these drill bits here correspond with each fixing so if the anchor fixings we're using a ten millimeter diameter drill bit the PDA eight for the wall plug seven and then to the UX six we're using a six millimeter drill bit for the screws we're using single thread for 550 millimeter wood screws down to the screw is crucial and I'll show you why all for the job we've got the drill to draw the whole electric screwdriver not essential you can use a manual screwdriver if you haven't got an electric screwdriver and then we've got a setting tool for the anchor fixings again not crucial but a really useful tool to have so you who are used to drilling onto plasterboard will be thinking why isn't he using a helter-skelter fixing IE one of these there's a very good reason for this these fixing a lot good when you're drilling it too fast board which is then going to have a pressure or low inserted pulling that fixing out the wall and I'll show you why so let's get started I've dropped four holes in a piece of plastic for each hole corresponds with the fixing that I'm using it's important to get it down to right check out the comments section the end of this video where I'll give you details all the right drill bits to use okay first up we're going to use the heaviest Duty fixing which is the yank fixing I'm asserting that into my timid millimeter diameter hole that I've drilled I'm demonstrating with this piece of plaster board is I'm showing you what happens inside the wall now for real ease of use be great if you can get hold of one of these which is a setting tool they're only about five or six quid certainly under ten pounds you can get them for anywhere like screw fix and what this does is it cranks the screw and tighten the anchor so I've loosened the screw a little bit I'm putting the setting tool slotting it onto the screw as you can see here and then I'm very gradually applying pressure onto the fixing and you can see the anchor is opening on the inside of the plasterboard to create really really good fixing because of the way this opens it's particularly good for heavy duty applications where you've got a lot of weight pulling down on the screw okay next up we've got the fish up PD eight fixing I'm inserting this and for the eight millimeter diameter hole that drill pushing it in tight now this is why the screw diameter is really important because the screw thread needs to pass uninterrupted all the way through the top of the fixing and I'll show you why in a minute and I'm gradually tightening it up there's an audible click which is really useful when you're fixing because you know that it's starting to work and then the bullet starts to force itself down into the rest of the fixing now this is brilliant because what this is doing is it's basically creating a really strong wedge which is going to make it very hard for that fixing to be pulled out through the plasterboard okay next up we've got the roll plug which I'm inserting into the seven millimeter hole that I drilled there we go so we're going to set the screw into the rule book try and screw it up as vertically as you can as straight as you can because what we want the screw to do in this instance is to go right through top of the plug because again when you start to tighten it what it does is it forces the plug out like the other two to create a really strong fixing okay last but definitely not least I'm going to insert the fish you x6 plug again I'm going to use the same format in its diameter screw now this screw goes through again you need two screws it's just long enough that it goes all the way through and out the other end of the wall fixing now what happens when you tighten this screw this is really clever because what this wall plug is doing is it's basically curling over itself as you tighten it up so again create a massive knot on the inside of the plasterboard trick with this is to keep screwing until it gets tight and then what you're left with is a knotted all fixing which was created basically a plug that can't be pulled through the plasterboard so there you have it you've got my four favorite faster board fixings the anchor fixing for very heavy-duty applications the PD eight which is also a fairly heavy-duty fixing and then these two fixings for slightly lighter duty but still very reliable fixings to be honest with you the fixing I use most often is probably the fish are you x6 I tend to keep the anchor fixing in reserve why is this well there's a general rule of thumb when you're drilling it's plasterboard you want to start with a small hole and go larger as your various fixings fail to do what you're wanting them to do if you start with a big hole and that doesn't work then you're in a bit of trouble so I always start with the UX six because it's a six millimeter diameter hole and then if for whatever reason it doesn't achieve the desired results I can then upgrade to one of these fixings using the anchor fixing at the end here for the most heavy-duty applications now cover about the things to point out first one is very important that you understand the thickness of your PLAs port because you see these wall fixings work well in this standard twelve millimeter thick plaster board because they umbr.ella out on the inside of the plaster board you're not sure how thick your plaster board is you can get a piece of wire bend the end over to create a little gauge and then you can pass that piece of wire through the plaster board and then feel for where it stops and then when you take out the the wire you can see how thick your plaster board is if as is sometimes the case on very good quality buildings projects they've used double tap plaster board which means they've got two layers of plaster board you may need to tailor your fixings accordingly for example the anchor fixing comes with a double layer collar so in other words the umbrella will only the anchor will only open at the edge of end of that collar which will coincide with the second thickness in the plaster board there are all sorts of other fixings you can get example this is the heavyweight version of the UX six fixing I showed you earlier on so you have to tell your fixings for the job now since you really want a lot of valve helter-skelter fixings I'm now going to show you why okay so screwing fixing into the plaster board like that whereas my other fixings rely on basically knotting or anchoring themselves on the underside of the plaster board what the health scout fixing does is it simply has a thread it goes through the plaster board now as we know plaster board is very brittle and the only thing keeping this how to scale to fixing in is a thread that's weaved its way through the plaster board now if that fixing has been over tightened as it went through the plaster board the plaster board will already have shattered around the thread so you only have to have a limited amount of force applied to the underside of the plaster board for that helps the scouter fixing to simply fall out now I've been on so many jobs where somebody before us has used one of these things and it pulled out of the ceiling so I would say stay clear of these less you're using them where the load is only bearing down not out it's important you use the right Bama to screw of these little pictures because if I've gone for a one-gram to screw in either the PD eight all the Royal Oak or the u x6 it wouldn't have worked the screw would have been too fat you x6 wouldn't have rotted down the raw plug wouldn't have opened up and the PD eight bullet wouldn't have been forced down through the wall fixing so it's very important to use a four millimeter diameter thread and the right source of thread to go through the fixing so I hope you found this video useful as usual if you've got any comments or questions leave them after the video do please subscribe to my channel for access to all my other DIY videos