Hi all,
As part of a house tidy up and declutter (small house that feels ever smaller due to working at home) I've thought about guitar wall hangers, so I can put an electric and an acoustic up on the walls so they aren't out of reach, but aren't just on the floor waiting to be knocked over.
Our internal room walls are that hollow plasterboard type of wall, ie sound hollow in the middle of the walls. We hung curtain poles up on the outside facing walls by way of attaching a batten (no nails and drilled holes for rawl type screws etc) across the wall then drilling holes into/through that and in to the wall, for to attach the curtain poles to. However as they are the walls towards the outside they seem to have larger amounts of "not hollow" wall, this would be on an internal wall.
There are two walls on which I could aim to hang them - one is the wall between us and next door, the other opposite wall has the bathroom the other side, ie tiles on the other side. I'd prefer them on the bathroom side, but there's also a radiator below (which is never on!) and a light switch and plug further down. I'm also a bit concerned when I drill through I might drill too far and accidentally go through to the tiles....
But, hoping you lot who are more practical with DIY type things, might be able to reassure me that by putting up a batten then applying guitar hangers on to that, I'll be ok?
Also, I assume guitar hangers are ok? Safe? Not likely to drop the instruments etc? I might also either varnish or paint the batten for something to do.
Thanks
Matt
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Plasterboard is 900 x 600 or 2400 x 1200 so use that to find the joint on the stud to make a strong fix. In a modern house though that could be a tin C section stud so have to use self drilling screw or pilot a hole first
not even on timber battens, as I think we have the “dab” plasterboard
use either “gripit” fixings which are a bit expensive, or the metal plasterboard ones which you keep screwing in and they retract and grip onto the back on the plasterboard.
P.S. I don’t like the fat threaded cutting types, I find they chew up the plaster too easily. I prefer the metal expanding types.
So buy extra strong Neodymium magnets (£3 off e bay) and just stroke the magnet along the wall and it will attach to a nail or screw head in the upright and bang there's your timber , measure 16 to 18 inches away stroke magnet about and you should hit your next one ..saves loads of minature holes going across a wall where you've knocked a nail in and nothing behind .
If you dont know if its dot or dab or studwork ,knock a 4" nail in,
it will go through pasterboard and either stop sharp because its hit brick or breeze block so its dot and dab ( in which case use 4" screws and plugs) or it will hit fresh air ( so its studwork)so get the magnet out and find your uprights and screw to them.
https://images.app.goo.gl/gB5zfWB2gujtyaHp7
I used some similar metal equivalentsof these, but im sure the results are similar. Rock solid.