Hi all. I've mounted a couple of things to studs before without an issue.
But I have a little bit more of an elaborate setup. I have a bunch of shelves for my cat that I want to put on the wall. I have a stud/wire detector, but one of the walls I wish to use has voltage detected across a very large area for some reason. And when I put my hand on the wall, it stops ever detecting any wires at all!!
Could there really be that much electrical wiring within this one wall??? There is a singular outlet in this area, but the detector goes off all over the wall, not just above the outlet.
My studs are very far apart at around 24 inches. So only small portions of the shelves will be drilled into the wall and the rest will be seated in the drywall with drywall anchors unfortunately.
How can I work on this project...drilling into both studs and drywall while avoiding the 10,000 wires that are evidently inside of my wall??? And also why do the "wires" all disappear when I touch the wall??
Thanks all lol.
Maybe sheetrock is different where we're both located. I'm in the Netherlands.
Yours's is probably much more dense/higher quality than the US. They go in like butter with a large phillips head.
I’m in the US and have never once successfully used one of the white screw in anchors. What is the mystical secret?
Lots of pressure and a large phillips head screw driver. Harder to do when it's above your head, but you gotta put your body into it and they go in no problem.
I’m going to give a shot one more time but if it doesn’t work I’m going to take back my upvote on this post. You’ve been warned!