How to hang a cabinet on a drywall?

Independently decorating the premises in your home, you must remember that you will have to equip it with various functional accessories used in everyday life. It can be shelves, wall cabinets, paintings. In this matter, it is very important to decide what is more important for you - an impeccable appearance or convenience. Professionals advise to solve such problems in advance, to think through carefully all the nuances of the layout. Otherwise, there may be problems with the fasteners, especially for walls covered with sheets of drywall. This article will be useful to many people who decide to do their home improvement on their own. We will take a closer look at how to hang a cabinet on a drywall.

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What tools and fixtures are best to use?

Before you hang kitchen cabinets on a drywall wall yourself, carefully study the recommendations of specialists in this regard. They will help you decide on the most suitable tools.

To make installation, you need to buy special hardware, pick up reliable suspensions or supports. The fact is that for different hinged structures that differ in size and weight, you should use various options for mounting on drywall:

• Hooks, screws, loops.
• Dowels.
• Anchor bolts.
• Internal technological support.
• Intermediate strips.
• Outriggers.
• Hanging ropes.

To complete the installation, it is enough to stock up with such tools:

• Knife.
• Roulette.
• Hammer.
• Hacksaw.
• Pliers.
• Chisel.
• Medium and large Phillips screwdrivers.
• A small spatula.
• Carob keys.
• Drill with wood drills.
• Liquid level or plumb with a square.
• Drill with a special carbide tip.

Important! A screwdriver, an electric drill, a set of cutters will also greatly facilitate the work. But with certain knowledge and experience, you can do without these special tools, since the quality will not suffer at all, only you will need more time and energy.

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How to hang a light object on a drywall?

Now we will focus on how to hang a cabinet on a wall made of drywall, the weight of which does not exceed 5 kilograms. You can use a dowel with technological elements for this, which allows you to independently make holes and cut threads in soft materials, in particular this applies to drywall. Screw these dowels with a conventional wrench with a large cross head.

The hanging process itself looks like this:

• Attach a cabinet to the wall, mark the installation points of the fasteners loops, insert the nut of the wrench into the figured slot of the base of the dowel, proceed with drilling holes.
• Gradually tighten the dowel - with its leading edge, it will make a hole of the required diameter, cut through the thread and screw tightly on it.

Important! In order not to pierce through the partition, control the applied force, because it is important that the dowel is immersed in drywall no deeper than the outer surface.

• Screw a self-tapping screw of a certain size into the resulting polymer socket, which will fix the hinged loop and form an additional support on the inner surface.

Before starting work, carefully mark the installation site. Do not expect wide loops to compensate for any discrepancies.

Important! If initially it’s incorrect to hang the cabinet, then it’s hard to fix something. Taking measurements allows you to mark the point of attachment of one loop on the wall, directly from which a horizontal line is drawn using the building level to the next loop. Only after drawing all the marks you can start drilling.

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How to install a heavy kitchen cabinet on drywall?

Now you know the answer to the question of whether it is possible to hang kitchen cabinets on drywall, but there are problems with the carrying capacities of the material itself. Kitchen cabinets often weigh quite a lot, therefore, for their installation, additional internal supports should be used, which can be made of a metal frame from profiles and sheets.

Important! To find the frame racks under the drywall, it is better to use an ordinary magnet suspended on a rope. It will help to easily locate metal profiles.

After that, decide on the method of attachment, and you can safely proceed to work according to the following scheme:

1. If the hinges already existing on the cabinet in the distance between the racks do not fit, then twist them, or fasten the intermediate bar on the wall to attach the cabinet to it. It is recommended to select the material and dimensions of the strap, based on how much the structure weighs. After attaching the board with dowels to metal racks, you can hang heavy furniture on any section of it. The main load will fall on the racks. The cabinet closes the bar, so it does not spoil the appearance of the wall. To eliminate the skew at the bottom, it is necessary to install special stops equal in thickness to the bar.
2. If you decide to use screws and anchor bolts for installation, you will have to pre-make a hole in the plasterboard wall with holes as an attachment to the cabinet. This will provide access to the supporting structure. After completing all work with putty, the cut-out part is fastened again in its place. Then, with a drill in the wall, a hole is drilled to install the dowel. Due to the length of the anchor, it is possible to easily overcome the gap between the drywall and the wall, due to this, the entire load will transfer to a strong supporting wall.

Important! To increase the level of reliability, it is better to deepen the anchor bolt along the entire length of the dowel into the surface.

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Options for technological supports under drywall

As we have previously indicated, the attachment of kitchen cabinets to the wall of drywall requires some preparation. This should be done in the process of sheathing and installation of the frame using special technological supports, which specialists call mortgages among themselves. But in order to start these works, it is necessary to decide exactly how you will decorate the room, to designate the places for installing hanging furniture. Mortgage preparation at the stage of wall cladding and construction allows you to protect yourself from various problems in the future. To correctly install the technological supports and mount the wall cabinets on drywall, follow the instructions below:

1. Buy wooden blocks of any width at a hardware store, but it is important that they match the width of the racks with which the gypsum board was fixed. Thus, you create an emphasis on the wall without a gap. Since these are the main supporting elements, they should be prepared in advance.
2. Accurately mark the location of the mounted elements, in particular their height. Having determined the exact location of the fixture of new furniture, install mortgages directly into the wall or in the partition.
3. It is necessary to fix the wooden beam to the wall with anchor screws with countersunk hats that do not allow drywall to abut against them. The ends of the beam should be inserted into the profile and fastened with them.

Important! To strengthen the structure, additional profiled metal sheets can be fixed on top with mortgages with screws.

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When all the mortgages are in place, you can not even doubt the reliability of all future fixtures. Even if your cabinets are completely filled with utensils, groceries and other heavy objects, they will definitely not come off the wall. But given that gypsum board is a relatively new building material, it is better to familiarize yourself with useful information regarding the technology for performing such work before hanging kitchen cabinets on drywall.