How to hang a cabinet on a drywall

The only material that has enjoyed unflagging popularity in the building materials market for several decades is drywall. Using it, you can create structures of any shape, finish and align the most problematic surfaces. In addition, working with him does not require a large level of knowledge, it is environmentally friendly and has a relatively low cost. However, after repair, most people have a question about how to hang a cabinet on drywall. Indeed, for all its ideality, this material has a low strength indicator and severe restrictions on the permissible load.

The need to use mortgages

There are several ways to get out of this situation. The most reasonable solution is to plan the approximate arrangement of kitchen furniture at the beginning of the repair. In this case, when installing the supporting structure perpendicular to the profile, it will be necessary to install bars, which in the future will become the place where kitchen cabinets will be hung on drywall.

• For mortgages use bars of at least 40 × 40 mm in size, which are placed unawares between the profile.
• After installation, they are attached with screws to the load-bearing wall.

To protect wooden mortgages from condensation and subsequently from the appearance of fungus, they are pre-treated with special means and primed.

• After this, the frame can be sewn with drywall, mark the place of installation of mortgages with a marker.

In order to hang cabinets, it remains only to fix the canopies on the laid beam.

However, often an apartment is bought with a repair already completed and new owners may get an unpleasant gift from the old owners in the form of drywall walls, which they were not even warned about. People are faced with a dilemma: to make new repairs in the room or forever abandon the wall cabinets. In this situation, you can do without radical measures.

Methods of mounting support platforms

If it is not possible to install mortgages, then you need to make supporting platforms that can withstand a load greater than drywall. You may need to spoil the appearance of the wall a little, but these places will still be closed. How best to hang the cabinet on drywall on the supporting platforms, depends on the method of fastening the finishing material.

1. If the installation was made by gluing the building material to the wall, then you need to cut squares of equal size at an equal distance 10 × 10 cm, clean the old glue from there, fill the voids with a new compound and, after drying, hammer into the wall of the dowel and hang cabinets.
2. If plasterboard sheets are attached to the frame, 15 × 15 cm squares need to be cut. Insert embedded bars into the voids formed, selecting their size in accordance with the distance from the bearing wall to the gypsum wall. After fixing canopies into the kitchen, you can hang any cabinets.

Mounting rail

If you do not want to spoil the view of the wall, then the issue of fastening is solved using the mounting rail. Of course, such a wall will not withstand a large load, but the opportunity to attach small cabinets or shelves will appear.

This method is mainly suitable for walls with frame fastening of drywall. Have to take butterfly dowels and secure the mounting rail with them. In places where the profile is located, it is necessary to use self-tapping screws. The distance between the fasteners should not exceed 10-15 cm.

The right choice of drywall fasteners

The answer to the question of how to hang a cabinet on a drywall wall depends on the dimensions and dimensions of the product. Currently, you can purchase models with a small mass and any shape. In addition, if this piece of furniture is used as a display case, then its load on the wall will not exceed the limits of the norm that manufacturers allow.

Depending on the thickness of the sheet, drywall is designed for a load of up to 50 kg, but only subject to the correct selection of fasteners and accurate load distribution. Therefore, the question of whether it is possible to suspend the cabinet on the gypsum board without reinforcing the structure, the owners have to decide on their own.

• A metal expansion plug withstands a maximum weight of about 25 kg, despite the claimed 30 kg. In order for the dowels to hold the kitchen cabinet, it is necessary to place them at a distance not exceeding 40 cm. Therefore, if the width of the subject is greater than this distance, then it is necessary to increase the number of parts for the canopy.

• Anchor bolts are attached directly to the main supporting structure and therefore make it possible to fearlessly hang an object weighing more than 50 kg. When using such fasteners, you need to consider that for installation you will definitely have to drill a wall. And if working with wooden and brick structures will not cause problems, then the concrete walls of modern high-rise buildings can be drilled only using a hammer drill. And this, accordingly, will still lead to some damage to the drywall sheet.

Necessary requirements for hanging kitchen cabinets on gypsum board

Of course, the best option is to redesign and arrange the furniture so that there is no need to use plasterboard partitions, but this is not always possible, so there is nothing else to do but hang kitchen cabinets on GKL.

The main thing to remember when working with drywall:

• This is a fragile material, and therefore can not withstand the weight of the kitchen cabinet.
• Fixing on it any piece of furniture is impossible without a preliminary accurate calculation.
• If it is possible to lay load-bearing structures for the subsequent canopy of furniture at the installation stage, then this must be done.
• To avoid serious damage to the finishing material, during installation of anchor fasteners, holes in drywall it is necessary to make more than the diameter of the inserted bolts, since the GCR is not in this case a bearing element designs.

If the ears for mounting the cabinet are at a greater distance from each other compared to the gap between the mortgages or frame elements, you need to rearrange the mounting fixtures on the furniture.

• Fasteners they are screwed into drywall after the completion of the finishing work so that they do not interfere with the finishing of the walls.

• You can find the location of the elements of the metal frame using a magnet, which for this must be hung on a string.
• Fasteners must meet not only aesthetic requirements, but also fully meet the requirements of GOST.

Kitchen cabinets need to be hung on a level so that the load distribution occurs evenly.

• In order not to deform the sheet of drywall, the fixing of screws and anchor bolts must be carried out without additional effort.

With all the requirements and accurate calculation on drywall, you can hang almost any product.