Mounting Into Plaster Walls

Screws and screws with masonry anchors for heavy items are your best choice for hanging things on plaster walls without picture rail.

Mounting into plaster walls. Plaster is a hard durable material but it s also resistant to penetration. Select a drill bit that is 1 8 in 0 32 cm smaller in. Ch hanson 0304 magnetic stud finder. Turn the screw to mushroom the slotted sleeve against the back wall surface.

This is because most plaster walls are made as dividers and are made of one or two sheets of plaster. Hanging things on lath and plaster walls is a tricky business. Use an electric screwdriver to. The drill will stop once it is all the way through the plaster you ll feel it.

When drilling into plaster you ll need to use a masonry bit. Driving anything much larger than a pin nail into. What you want to do is select the drill bit that it says to use on the side of the package of screws and anchors. Choose heavy duty plaster anchors capable of bearing the tv s weight.

Drill pilot holes through the wall with a masonry drill bit. Get it in your drill and go for it. Installing the mount 1. Instead use plaster anchors made of metal like a molly bolt or a toggle bolt.

Drill a small pilot hole with a wood boring bit into each mark made through the mounting holes for each bracket. For instance drive a screw into the strip on the spot just above where you want to hang a picture. Plaster walls without available studs mark the locations of all of the bracket mounting holes onto the wall using a level to make sure the brackets will be. Plastic wall anchors don t work with lath and plaster walls.

Here are links to the product we used in this video. Drill a larger hole. Get anchors capable of bearing at least 150 lb. Pointed mollys can be tapped into place with a hammer.

Be sure to use one that s long enough to get behind the plaster and lath. Seat the round flange flush with the wall surface by tapping the screwhead. These ones that i use regularly take a 3 16 drill bit. You can raise or lower the wire to get the picture to the correct height.

These sheets are not very thick and can easily break. For lighter items simply screwing into the plaster with a 1 1 4 drywall screw is usually enough to get the job done. Attach one end of a.