any hints and tips on how to hang them? Old house, lovely decorative centre piece in middle of ceiling, chandelier weighs about 6kg. Very high ceiling. I know not to attach directly to the plaster so how would I do it?

at school if i ran out of glue i’d use tipex 🙂

My parents had delusions of grandeur too (during the 80’s), all I remember they were a bugger to keep clean.

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Get some gold teeth and a fish tank that you can see into another room through. Then park all of your ‘rides’ outside in a line on the drive and phone MTV Cribs.

this video explains how they’re attached;

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[edit] darn.

I’d lift the floorboards above it and put in a noggin between the joists to attach it unless it is already directly under a joist (which it might well be – old light fittings tending to have been heavy. Then hook for chandelier into that beam/noggin.

Thought this thread was going to be about the Bukkake version of a ‘Pearl Necklace’!

LOL you filthy individual Yorkshire Pudding.

Yorkshire pudpud +1 if i’m honest.

Thought this thread was going to be about the Bukkake version of a ‘Pearl Necklace’!

Face like a plasterer’s radio. Etc.

You’re the duke of New York…

… you’re the A-number-one.

any hints and tips on how to hang them

Noose over a rafter then kick the stool out from underneath them.

I put 2 up in my house (not ornate things, minimalist metal designs.

All I can say is good luck. We didn’t want to lift the carpets so we had to do it from below. In on I screwed into the joist as it was conveniently above the hole. In the other i used a T shaped thing for plaster board (like a cuff link or bushing extractor). Put it up between two laths and hung it off that. Ours were light though. There was lots of faffing and staring into the hole with a torch. If you can get to it from above do that.

sheesh, . . . and I thought my £15 standing lamp from Wilko’s was the height of sophistication?

Hang a chandelier?

Why don’t you get your butler to do it?

joist, screw in, bobs your uncle
I wish you better luck than when we hung our fitting – weighs 25kg and took 3 people to hang it – 2 to hold and one to screw in….not a particularly fun ten minutes

Mount directly into the horizontal rotator sprocket and perpendicular to the flangle hinge, taking care not to foul the gruntle bracket when gurning it into place.

HTH.