How To Find A Stud In A Wall Uk

I am trying to hang some heavy items on stud walls. Is there a good mode to observe out where the wooden battens are? Are plasterboard raw plugs stiff plenty to support heavy items?
Cheers for looking
marie x
Depends - how heavy is heavy?
And, would the item location just happen to autumn where the studs are anyways?

In that location are strongish fixings for p'board walls, but rawlplugs - no. Use these instead.

But, if you can employ a stud, then practise and then - no question.

How to find them? Apply a small-scale just powerful magnet - I've seen this on pootube, a guy using button-sized molybdenum magnets. He just slide them around the wall until he felt them being drawn to something. Focussed in, and - plop - they stick to where the spiral/nail heads are.

I've just tried this with a powerful frdge magnet - not the stupid wee ones with a picture of Brighton Pier on them. It located a smash - and stuck to the wall - in seconds.

Stud if you can, or else
depends on what you mean by plasterboard plugs and how heavy. generally if y'all are looking for the studs they are going to be 400mm altitude from each other,
if i demand to find studs i would start at one end and drill a pocket-size 3mm hole through the plaster board until i find a stud, and so from the centre of this stud i would mensurate accross 400mm and drill through there to find the side by side stud,if that was 400 mm i would concieve that the wall was congenital with the 400mm centres,then you lot have your studs, (but measure and drill where required.).
Thanks I have only tried a couple of super magnets and constitute they stuck to the wall. Would they too stick where electric cables are? I assume this method would too piece of work for locating ceiling beams? By rawplu fixings I meant plasterboard hollow wall fixings. I have just looked and noticed they only hold regular duty weight. I will expect for a heavy duty version.
No, magnets won't be attracted to leccy wire - that's non-ferrous metal - copper. Information technology's yer basic O-level physics, that...
(Heed - being patronised is part and parcel of coming on hither)

You tin confirm you lot've constitute a stud past moving the magent up and down vertically - information technology should find furtrher nails every few inches or and then, but none to the firsthand sides.

Older studwork is usually 600mm (2') apart, I think - so try again at both 400mm and 600mm distances.

There are lots of p'board, dry-wall fixings available. The ones I linked to are the ones I'd recommend over any others of that size. 'Leap-toggle' types are hellish, as are the 'push through and they unfold' types. The ones I linked to - if fitted porperly (neat, tight hole) remain in identify and spread the load better.

What is information technology y'all are fixing to the wall?

And will magnets piece of work on ceilings too? They should.
yes, agree, 400mm-600mm, if built to standards. i like the heavy magnet idea.
ten-i yous'll find a stud behind each vertical crack in the plaster
Mr. HandyAndy - Really
I failed my physics o level and become nervous drilling anywhere where I think at that place may be electric cablevision. The house is Victorian with an extesion completed during the last few years. The seemed to take also plaster boarded over solid walls and boxed in cables etc. I am trying to hang a heavy bathroom cabinet. Everything i take read online advises against whatsoever wall fixtures for the cabinet equally it is besides heavy for plasterboard. I call back i accept got the hang of finding the stud walls and the magnets are now attached to the ceiling. I volition wait at fixing some descrete batten between the stud battens.
Swell idea - if you tin can fit a batten to span the studs, yous should be secure.
They are right about p'board fixings non existence acceptable; the problem with a cabinet is not merely the weight, but the fact that information technology'll accept constant movement. P'board just falls apart if agitated - information technology'southward basically just chalk with a paper layer each side.

Whatever is going to be hidden behind the fitted cabinet is fair game, so experience free to cut into the p'lath and remove sections if it helps to gains access for fitting a 'noggin' behind! If you cut - using a craft knife - down the sides of the studs, you'll be able to attach an extra piece of timber to the side of the stud afterwards so's you take something to refit the p'board on to.

If the chiffonier has a recess at the back - so's the dorsum console is set in a scrap - then you may be able to surface-mount a batten and screw it to that.
Thanks for that brilliant fast response.
hello
recollect though no matter how heavy duty a fixing is, it's only as strong equally the fabric it is fxed to.