![]() ![]() The packaging for the drywall anchor should list the size requirements for a drill bit – with a molly bolt it's important that you get the sizing near perfect. Also, use a stud finder to check that the wall is clear of studs, pipes, and wires. Make sure you know exactly where you want your molly bolt before you go drill that hole! You don't want to create a bunch of extra holes that will need to be filled later. Using molly bolts is simple! Here's a quick guide to get you started. Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: How strong are expanding metal drywall anchors? () How to Use Molly Bolts This video gives you an idea of how much weight a molly bolt can withstand. It's pretty impressive! But beware - the true holding capacity comes down to the thickness of the drywall, the size of the molly bolt, and how well they are installed. Most manufacturers will list a weight rating for their drywall anchors on the package. Molly bolts can handle anywhere from 30 to 100 pounds. Some people don't trust wall anchors by themselves to mount an expensive TV on the wall, but you should be able to use these anchors in conjunction with a stud to attach the bracket to the wall securely. This type of expansion anchor is well-suited for hanging ceiling hooks, heavy curtain rods, large picture frames, floating shelves, coat racks, and even light fixtures.Ĭan you use molly bolt drywall anchors for a TV? That's hotly debated. What types of items require a molly bolt? Molly bolts are medium to heavy-duty wall anchors for hanging fairly large items. These anchors have a metal sleeve that flares out against the inside of the wall to evenly distribute the weight and hold your mounted item tight to the drywall. They are used when you don't have a stud in the wall at the precise location you want to hang something. ![]() Molly bolts are a type of hollow wall anchor made for drywall and plaster walls. Please visit my disclosures page for more information. Purchases made through these links may earn me a small commission at no additional cost to you. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. Which is Best: Molly Bolts or Toggle Bolts?. ![]() Even if we could just fasten it back into place that would be okay. We were originally thinking to drywall over it, but it doesn't appear that there will be anything to affix strapping to. I assumed the skin on these panels would be aluminum, but one person who came over and tapped on it with his fingernails seems to think that, despite the places where it is corroding a bit, they might actually be plastic. but they don't seem to.Īny thoughts on what I could do here, based on a knowledge of what I am working with and how these things fit together? It looks like they should just click together. It is not leaking, but we are getting what appears to be a brown styrofoam kind of dust coming down from it. One of the panels - at the seam - seems to be becoming disconnected from the adjacent panel. We recently had the roof shingled over a plywood base, but the issue I am having precedes that. (though it had leaked for a short while between where it meets the house) The roof panels are about 4" thick and the ceiling has - to my knowledge - never leaked along the seams. It is a 4-season modular style sunroom made up of four-foot panels and is, in total, roughly 20 x 12 with windows along the three sides. Our sunroom is about 20 years old here in Southern Ontario, Canada. A hardware store salesperson told me to use the anchors that are beige and drill themselves into the wall that you then screw into but I don't see how that kind would ever be able to cut into these walls. Most things will be 10-20 lbs but I do have a 35lb wood framed mirror that we'd like to put up again in this new place. So if any of you with more expertise than me could help me out with identifying the walls and then what my anchor options are. ![]() The drill holes were super clean, the wall feels about an inch thick and hollow behind. I can also tell you these walls are all original from 1931 if that helps place the material. Sadly I don't know a lot about this, but I can tell you with the few holes I've made for light duty things like I said (a small mirror, a little kitchen shelf) the walls are really sturdy, they don't crumble like that cardboard-y drywall in modern apartments. Some other holes where cables pass were more telling. I saw online that peeking behind a light switch could be useful but you'll see in the photos that it was hard to see much. I need to start putting things up on the walls in our new apartment we've moved to and a couple of light duty things were easy enough but I have to put up some shelves and things now that are 20 pounds and more and I feel like I need to have a better sense of what these walls are made of. ![]()
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