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I've got a big tub of 3.5 * 50 wood screws kicking about. Should I be thinking about something with a larger diameter for wall cabinets? I know for certain that it's easy-ish to over torque the heads on these (turbo gold's) and rip it off with my drill in driver mode. so does that mean the cabinet will easily shear them (2 or 3 per top corner depending on bracket / cabinet)?
edit: masonary walls or ply lined stud walls btw.
Big ones. Far better to over-build something than under-build, surely? A few quid on screws is worth peace of mind in my book 🙂
Bigger diameter screw at least 4.5, anmd good wall plugs, Rawl, brown ones or the grey ones from B and Q.
DONT FORGET TO CHECK FOR CABLES AND PIPES IN THE WALL
I don't know numbers but I used ones that required an 8mm drill bit for the rawl plugs, way more than 50mm long too.
Off to screwfix tomorrow for some big screews them!
Tradesman tip(thats me).
When secureing cbinets to walls remove the shelf, and the doors.
Sccrew a 2 x 1 batten to wall on the line where the base of the unit will be, this will act as a suport,for the shelf unit.
Then just drill through the unit into wall, remove and fit wal plugs and then rehang unit on batten, and secure, you can then either remove the batten or scre some cup hooks into it and hang kitchen utensils off it.
Have you not fitted that kitchen yet?
I use 5 x 50mm usually and red spax plugs(5.5mm hole).
For thermalites I use 6 x 75 with 8mm fischer UX10 plugs
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