As the heat from the summer sun starts to cool down and the nights start to draw in, your attention turns from days out enjoying the sun to cosy nights indoors. Lighting will play a key part in the ambience and mood of your cosy nights, but what if you discover you can’t put a light fitting up securely because your walls or ceiling are just plasterboard? The challenge with fixing into a weak substrate like plasterboard is there isn’t enough material behind it for a regular fixing to achieve a secure hold to the fitting.
The standard fixings supplied with the light fittings will more often than not be for solid walls, whilst regular hollow wall anchors require a larger drilling hole that can weaken the cavity wall.
The TOGGLER Hollow Wall Anchor is designed for medium-duty applications in hollow substrates such as plasterboard, with an Ultimate Working Load (UWL) of 65kg in 12.5mm plasterboard. It also offers significantly higher strength loads (both shear and tensile), and can be installed through a drilled hole of only 8mm.
Not to mention, the TOGGLER Hollow Wall Anchor has anti-rotation fins which prevents spin-out and locks to the cavity wall, forming a truss-like structure for secure locking of the fixing.
Not only does the Hollow Wall Anchors working load separate it from others within the market, but its ease of installation also makes it stand apart from the cheaper fixings. It can be installed to both ceilings and walls with four simple steps:
- Drill the 8mm hole, and fold the anchor in the middle.
- Insert the anchor into the hole and tap into the substrate until flush.
- Insert the red key provided to pop the fixing open behind the cavity wall (not necessary for thick or solid walls). Do not hammer the key into the anchor, and remove once it has popped open.
- Place the light fitting over the anchor. Insert a screw and tighten until flush with the item (do not overtighten).
Perform these four simple steps correctly, and your lighting fitting will remain locked securely to the plasterboard wall or ceiling for years to come!
*The recommended safe working load is a quarter of the Ultimate Working Load (UWL)
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