Plasplugs Hollow Door Plugs & Drill Bit 20 Pack

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Allow 24 hours for the construction adhesive to fully dry and you can then remove the screws and fill the holes over before painting.

Plasplugs Hollow Door Fixings 6mm x 23mm 20 Pack - Screwfix

Firstly, cut your batten to the correct length for your needs and then sand off the rough cut edge so it’s nice and smooth.

How to Fix to a Hollow Door

Once level, use a screw or other thin pointed object to mark through the fixing holes on the hanging rail to show where you need to drill your fixing holes. Next measure the width of your hanging rail and again mark its centre. Match up the marks on the door and hanging rail and then use a spirit level to level the hanging rail. The first job is to measure the width of the door near the top and find its centre and mark it with a pencil at the point on the door you want your hanger to be fixed. If there aren’t any holes already in the hanging rail you will need to measure and mark centre points and then drill them out.

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There is a quite frankly staggering array of fixings available today for pretty much any object and any surface and the same goes for hollow doors, however as with most things, some are better than others. Adhesive Hooks

Types of Hollow Door Fixings

Measure and mark the centre point of your batten around 30mm in from either end, drill out two small pilot holes and then countersink them ( see our guide here on pilot holes and countersinking for more information). Although we have used a coat hanging rail in this example, the exact same principles can be applied to any object you need to fix. Fixing to a Hollow Door Using Batten and Construction Adhesive Using standard screws are ok to a point but if any weight or pulling force is applied to them, in most cases they rip straight out, especially when fixing handles to hollow doors due to the forces applied to them when opening and closing the door itself.