![]() ![]() The studs will usually be around 16 to 24 inches apart, so make sure to measure accurately before marking the wall. I prefer to play it safe for peace of mind. All you need is a stud finder, a pencil, and a few handy tools to get started Here’s how you can easily mark the studs for hanging your shelves: First, use a stud finder to locate the wall studs. You cannot lift them single handed (well I can't anyway) and you really do not want them coming off. Step 3: Insert the anchors and screws into the holes. Step 2: Drill the holes for the anchors and screws on the wall. Step1: Mark the position of the curtain brackets on the wall. Whilst possibly over the top but these radiators are seriously heavy and more so when filled with water (they take a lot). Installation Steps for Hanging Curtains on Plaster Walls. With the larger verticals and no feet I found it easier to take down the lathe and plaster and build a studwork frame to suit the radiator fixings before plasterboarding and re-skimming. If glueing scraps of timber can be temp screwed to floor and braced off skirting to hold in place while glue goes off. With the largest of the column cast iron rads I have fitted I removed a horizontal rectangle of the lathe and plaster and fixed timber at the height of the studs before plastering back over. If nailing timber wedges are hammered into gaps between bricks to give something for the nails to grip marking just above skirting to indicate where to fix. I would strongly recommend buying the Zircon stud detector which I have found excellent and picking up the line of small lathe nails. The radiator stays can go between any of columns to suit the stud spacing. The advantage to the columns is you have much more leeway that with the majority of standard radiators where it will be fixed. In my experience the rad brackets never align with two sets of studs even with the small amount of horizontal play. Still I would want it fixed to the studs. The majority of the weight is being directed straight down. ![]() With the rads like the one pictured I would use feet like mentioned above if at all possible. Current task is a wall hung vertical weighing in a 68Kg dry to lathe and plaster. Have had and am still having the same problem as yourself. ![]()
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