Danni

Hey thanks for your input. As stated yesterday, I have emailed the FEO and awaiting a reply.

Thanks! i am having trouble locating the stud. I’ve got a magnet as well as a wall metal detector and it’s not picking anything up. The flat is a purpose built block (im on the middle floor) so it’s single layer plasterboard, cavity insulation (15cm) then the same brick that is in the stairwell outside so I’m presuming single layer there also. I drilled into the board hoping for breeze, but just my luck it’s just insulation! another plasterboard style fixing I found was called Geefix, which may be fair decent if I go round your approach and use multiples of them. wont be able to do anything till next weekend now due to work so have a little while to think about it

So your suggestion would be to forget the resin fixings and just use thick wood and screw considerably amounts of screws into the plasterboard instead? Obviously using stuff suitable for plasterboard. But would that really hold it in?

It’s a 1st floor flat. All the partition walls are stud, but I was hoping this exterior wall (backs onto the stairwell) would at least have breeze block behind the plasterboard. It didn’t sound hollow like a stud wall so thought it would be brick of sorts. I’ve emailed the FAO for Sussex. With the cavity being that deep, I’d have to put some pretty large holes into the plasterboard in order to get the resin funnel into the brick to fill it. Who knows, he may not even think this is suitable. If that’s the case then there goes my chances of applying lol.

Ok so I have drilled an exploratory hole in the wall. It’s plasterboard then a 150mm cavity into the external block work. I can’t seem to find where the joists are from just tapping on the wall and so this means all the walls wall be like this. I was tempted to just go with it with super long bars into the external block but with the length of the bars, I’m not sure that’ll be very secure. Also the fact that I won’t be able to get the resin tube in enough to inject. Does anyone have any ideas for this?

OK that's interesting. Im down in Sussex and the FAO's office is in Lewes, so not sure if they're one of the more strict counties or not. So I'm looking on Wickes. Is this the kinda thing I'm looking for in regards to the chemical anchor? https://www.wickes.co.uk/Fischer-Styrene-free-Polyester-Injection-Resin-300-ml/p/141046

What do you mean by spacers for the cavity? I can imagine how that'd look. Sorry if that's a bit dim

OK, so if the wall is how I'm hoping it is, I think im going to go down the chemical anchor / threaded bar route. I'll probably look to drill out all 6 holes and put an M12 rod in there. Is there a particular chemical anchor that is good for this kind of stuff? The cabinet is 80kg so whilst it'll be sitting on the floor, it'll need to take the FAO's weight, plus force of the cab when he tries to swing on it. I'm not a home DIY'er by any means, as I'm sure you've guessed by now. Not long moved out of my parents house and all I've ever had to do so far is hang a curtain rail up! I am very good with car mechanics though.

Thanks English, that’s kinda what I’m expecting. Although this won’t be going into an external wall of the building, just of my flat. Looking on Travis Perkins they look to just be standard engineering blocks (smooth and darkish red colour), but they are inside the building. There aren’t any other places it can go that aren’t stud wall, or where the Mrs will allow so I’ll have to make this work somehow. I found some rawl bolts that have a long thread on them so I may have to go down that route but use a ton of chemical/resin fix to get it as solid as possible. Will post back how it goes. It’s a massive cab which I had to lump up two flights of stairs earlier so it needs to be bolted down as if I’m never moving out lol.

Thanks for your replies. So the wall I want to fix it is at the front of my flat where the stairwell is. So whilst exterior to my flat, it’s internal in the building. The bricks aren’t like your exterior crumbly style of bricks (clearly not a builder lol!) all plugs etc are trunked and not recessed into the walls unfortunately so it’s a difficult one there i think I’m going to have to make an exploratory hole before I go further

Hi All i am in the process of applying for my FAC and my new cabinet arrived today (BSA 8 gun deep cabinet). Im hoping to fix it to the wall in my storage room at the weekend. However, I can’t tell whether the wall is brick behind the plasterboard. It definitely doesn’t sound as hollow as a stud wall so I’m hoping it’s brick, then plasterboard. I live in a flat at the moment so I don’t really fancy making too many holes in the wall (as long as I fill them when I leave and paint, I should be fine, apparently). So my question is, to be safer with the FAO inspection, shall I just drill and bolt all six holes of the cab with longer than normal rawl plugs? Or shall I go further than this and resin the holes before plugging? thanks Dan