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HRH has bought a cupboard/mirror thingy to hang over the sink in our bathroom.
The wall is lath & plaster.
I tried to make a test hole to see what would happen - the plaster's very crumbly & seems loosely adhered to the lath, such that there is now a half-inch diameter hole in the wall that started out as 5/6mm(it'll be behind the cupboard if I ever get it hung).
How do I go about fixing the unit to the wall?
Loads of fixings out there to choose from, head to B & Q and and see what looks strong enough.
When drilling into Lathe and plaster always start with a smaller drill and work your way up to the desired size, always make sure your drill is sharp, this makes a massive difference in reducing the chewed up wall efect you have just now.
I just re-decorated the bathroom in my flat and i used the red rawl plugs and screws to attach my bathroom cabinet, it feels plenty secure enough.
If possible cut away enough of the plaster to fit a wooden dwang between the upright wooden studs, there are probably specific fixings as well. HTH
Can you find anything solid behind the lath and plaster to attach to?
[i]Loads of fixings out there to choose from, head to B & Q and and see what looks strong enough.[/i]
And none of them will work if the platers crumbling off the lathe.
Either cut a strip of plaster out and fit a noggin between the battens or fix a betten directly to the wall (fixing to the battens the lathe is fixed to). I think battens are 18 inches apart in most old houses, they were in ours, but not 100% sure.
Either it's cut the plaster out or put a layer of plywood over the wall so that it spans between 2 studs. You'll need to decorate that but you would hae to decorate something anyway as you won't get a fixing directly into the lathe