FISCHER PLASTERBOARD WALL PLUGS X 10 METAL SELF DRILL PLASTER BOARD RAW PLUG Pk of 10

These screws are specifically designed for use in plasterboard (drywall) and are completely self-tapping. Our home has several plasterboard walls and each time I put a nail or rawlplug in the wall it went straight through. I recently put up some venetian blinds and they came with plastic plugs and screws but I had the same issue that the plasterboard is only a few millimetres deep so they also went straight through.Then I got these screws and everything I've put up with them feels rock solid. I wouldn't try to hang heavy mirrors or TVs with these things but they work perfectly well for applications like picture frames/canvases, blinds, small mirrors etc. Wouldn't hesitate to use these again they feel good quality, screw in super easily and are really simple to use. You can even drive the larger plug into the plasterboard with a philips screwdriver.

Brilliant, wanted to put up some corner shelving but one side of the wall is chipboard which is covering over the alcoves wasn't sure how I was going to do this but looked on Amazon and chose these after looking at previous reviews. Still a little dubious however when they arrived as I'd never used them before I thought how are they going to work?? Needn't have worried though as they were just the job and work perfectly I wish the other side of the wall was also hollow as it would have been a lot easier than drilling a hole and to be honest the hollow side felt more secure than where I had to drill after using these. For anyone looking at these there's nothing to it just obviously mark on the wall where you want it no drilling required just screw in with a Philips head screwdriver (you'll be amazed how well they work, I was)

Great quality, highly recommended

Does the job but they are not high quality. I broke a few before getting the job done. I guess it's ok for the price.

Firstly, you're mounting into plasterboard. If you're expecting to put anything of substantial weight on there with some magic screws, you're just not thinking straight. That being said, these work by being nice and big and spreading the load, allowing, in my view, you to have more security but still the same weight limitations. The reason for this is the base material is plasterboard and there is no getting away from that. You stick something heavy into plasterboard and it'll give.Mounting is pretty easy but to be honest the metal does feel quite cheesy. As long as it doesn't fall apart whilst installing, it'll be stronger than the plasterboard so no biggie, really. I would definitely drill a small pilot hole to get things started as otherwise there can be a lot of weeble-wobble and things might be out by 1-2mm. You can probably use a screwdriver but for jobs like this I always prefer a drill. I'd have thought a screwdriver might be a little difficult to get started. So I'd drill a nice small pilot hole - doesn't need to be deep or wide, just enough to pop the tip in. Once that's done, pop a PH1 or similar into your drill or electric screwdriver, use a slow speed to get it started and wizz it in. Don't go too fast as you'll end up mangling the board when it's fully in and you inevitably go too far.I found the screws supplied totally up to the task but I'd always check they're secure and strong before mounting anything - same with all plugged holes. I've screwed up so many of these I've lost count and it has always been my fault, so test before trusting anything valuable.I'd also say if you're mounting anything valuable or heavy, you really shouldn't do it to a plasterboard wall. I tend to prefer doubly securing things like that with No More Nails or something similar. It doesn't just stick, it spreads the load out over an even bigger surface area. The downside is that it's a bugger to get off in the future.

Idea

I live in a new build house with thin walls which struggle to hold even a small picture up. I have tried many different ways to secure pictures on my walls all of which eventually fail by pulling the screws/sticky backing/whatever off the wall. I tried these to hang to large very heavy framed pictures on my wall and they worked perfectly, they have been up around 2 months now and show no sign of falling. I would defiantly recommend these screws, cheap easy to use and actually work!

So I bought the rawl-plug self-drill idea, I've had big difficulties with this product, basically the screws your supposed to screw into the main body are meant for plastic rawl-plugs, not for metal, I call them wood screws, I'm lucky I have a vice in my garage and used it to hold the large piece in position, then used a light lubricant and then screwed the screw into it, really took some effort but once I had done that I found the very end tip of the main piece bends, I then had to tap that to straighten it with a hammer, in my opinion, cheap engineering ideas as the main piece is not tapped to marry with correct metric screws, I've scored low you make your own mind up, Dave ex-engineer, Coventry..