5 Top Ways to Secure a Loose Wall Plug (11 Methods Tested) 🧰
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- In this video I'm showing 11 methods for securing a loose wall plug and then explaining my 5 preferred techniques. If you have any additional tricks please leave them below in the comments section.
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0:00 Introduction
0:22 Cocktail Sticks
0:42 Split Wall Plug Pieces
1:01 Electrical Insulation Tape
1:20 Flexible Copper Cable Multi Strand
1:40 Cotton Wool
1:57 Wooden Splinters
2:22 Jeans Patch
2:33 Thread Seal Tape - PFTE.
2:51 Wooden Matches
3:13 Bubble or Chewing Gum
3:27 Hot Glue - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Electrical wires worked well for a smaller hole that needed repair - worked really well. Thanks.
How this doesn't have more views is beyond me. Extremely helpful and great commentary with clear opinions and advice.
I actually filled my holes with steel wool... Completely packed it in there and then just screwed onto the steel wool itself... Very very very sturdy
Pan scrub?
@@janthomson7697 Yes... I would recommend using the ones that are loose threaded, not the ones that are rolled up in coils
that's actually genius
Seems like a brilliant idea for heavy loads, which is the challenge I have got to fix. Thanks for that idea!
A great video for ideas. The ends of kebab sticks are easy to hammer in around a loose plug because they are sharpened to a point.
That's a really nice little hammer!
Your video was very helpful, I randomly searched for help and your video was first one I viewed for help. Thank you, my TV mount is stable now.
I used the split plug method to resecure a screen door closure to a wood doorframe. I just used a half plug alone in each of the two stripped wood holes to tighten up the woodscrews. Cheers.
This video saved my day!!
I’ve always used matches or wood splinters in the past, but tried the split wall plug option and it worked first time!
Glad it helped!
Absolutely amazing thanks. Fixed my girlfriends curtain rods with the toothpick method.
Jolly good.
Excellent video. Used the electrical cable to fix a spinning wall plug due to manufacturer giving the wrong drill bit size. Got me out of a hole. Thanks.
😊 😊 😊 I saw what you did there 😎
The toothpicks worked. I couldn’t believe it. Thanks
Great to hear!
The copper wire hack worked PERFECTLY!!! Huge thanks 👍
Glad it helped
This video really helped me out, was stuck with a big hole and the splitting of a raw plug worked a treat, thanks for sharing 👍🏽
Spliting wallplug worked like a charm. Thanks man👍👍👍
Glad it helped
Electric wire one saved my behind, much appreciated. keep it going.
Matchstick trick worked a treat , much frustration avoided... Thank u so much
on old properties with 'unpredictable' crumbly.damp/brick/stone/'holey' walls i have used deep fill toupret/polyfilla in the hole once drilled, get the plug in, them put the screw in once dried off - v effective.
Thank you! Just fixed 2 blown rawl plugs I used to secure a double bike holder in the garage with toothpicks and it has worked a treat! Who knew!
i have multiple curtain rails that need sorting. very helpful indeed.
Cheers mate, raw plug method worked a treat
Thanks a lot for this mate! Used the stripping wall plugs method, worked perfectly!
Thank you so much for this! I was putting up some shelves and was having a lot of trouble with the plugs. Was tempted to half ass it, but I didn't want anyone getting hurt if they fell. I had some toothpicks on hand -- and they were exactly what did the trick! Thanks so much!
Excellent, thank you - my regular use of split matches over the years is vindicated!
My back gate post came away from its drill mounts today so this gave me a few options to consider when re-fixing the new rawplugs and longer screws. Thank you.
Thanks so much for this! I was finally able to secure my shoeshelf thanks to your splitting wall plug idea.
Glad it helped!
@@brieftodogassed casserole i5
Thank you very much for this posting.
Very informative and extremely helpful.
Excellent stuff, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
wonder if a smaller wall plug pushed inside the loose one would work especially if the loose one is a large plug
Update.
I used Epoxy putty yesterday to fix some very loose plugs in an old wall - cinder block - nasty black powdery stuff. Mixed up a pellet of epoxy putty which was enough for 4 holes. Forced into the holes and then tapped the plugs in. Set after 5 minutes. Holding no problem now.
Thanks for the video man!
Thanks for watching!
WOW!!!! Truly amazing
Vid well done, concise easy to follow. Copper strands, my favourite also. It'll probable not degrade, outdoors/salt air, as fast as other solutions (only guessing). Thanks for input.
Thank you fir this video. I’ve had a poorly fitted raw plug in a hard wall since moving into my rental property many years ago. There have been a couple of attempts to fix the problem but neither lasted permanently. As I’m disabled I’ve counted on family & friends but with the curtain rail dangling off the wall, useless curtains since the last lockdown & a properly inspection on Tuesday I hope to use either your 5th or 1st place techniques fir a permanent solution before Tuesday. I have those items in the house so those are the ones available. Although neither an expert or DIY enthusiast my logic agrees with your own preferences. I’ll update with the result. 👍
Thanks just what I needed when brain lock had set in😊❤️
I’m glad your top two match mine. My dad told me about the matches one but he is pretty old school. I told him you can just cut another bit of the plug itself and he said he had never thought of that haha.
Classic
You're a life saver, man! Thank you so much! These damn dry walls. Splitting the additional plug worked wonders!
Don't forget just using a bigger plug too! I had some 6mm wall plugs spinning in some very crumbly bricks... Hammered an 8mm plug in and problem solved. Just need to make sure to use a bigger screw.
Good ideas thanks. Even better if you tested the strength of each.
very informative sir
Brillant thanks
Thank you so much
Use dead rubber tyre tube
thanks mate you help me i try with split plug and it work you have new subscriber
Glad I could help
Thanks for the ideas -- copper wires seem to fit for a minimalist solve-it-all. Btw did you not mention adding thin screws around the plug to stop it spinning, or to insert a second, smaller screw next to the main screw, depending whether you may access the plug or not: this method works in most cases, but not when it's to blame a soft, thin wall layer. In this case, I solved using the Paper-tape: differently from the electric tape, the paper tape sort of amalgamates around the plug, getting stronger the more you screw: likely, this effect depends the direction the paper has been wrapped onto the plug -- just like when sealing iron fillets with Teflon wire, but rather in the opposite direction, such, that screwing unwraps it and make it mess and do the filling. Not an empiric statement, since just solved a case I'd like never to happen.
Thanks 👍
Nice 👍🏻
I can vouch for the hot melt glue gun...curtain pole will never fall down again
I've read you can use cable ties. Not sure how but going to find out and try today.
I've always used stripe of plug or even a smaller plug inside a larger one. I'm going to try the copper wire next time, thanks pal
Really helpful video thanks. My mum has grab rails around the house and one of them the bottom end has come loose for the reason you’re discussing. Do you think fixing the problem in this way is safe enough for a grab rail? I don’t have a drill available which I’m assuming the better options would involve. Thanks
What about the various types of glues and fillers? A vid on some of these would be very useful. Kind regards from deepest Dorset.
Thanks for the suggestion but most glues / fillers take far too long to set or don't set hard enough there are exceptions like anchoring epoxy normally used with anchor bolts for suspending a false ceiling in commercial construction but those types of epoxies / glues / fillers are very expensive.
For drywall, what about using J.B. Weld? I believe that it would stick quite well to the hole in the drywall, and it dries hard as a rock, thereby providing a solid surface to drill hole for new all anchor.
jb weld means
Good advice man. Thanks. Tommorow I want to install my wife curtain. Wish me luck.
Best of luck!
I'm going to try the strands of coated wire
Would speaker cable work with filling out the sides as it’s stranded copper but not that thick?
It might just work for a tiny gap if you pack it out with several pieces, speaker cable has very little copper which is a downside.
Zip ties do a great job also.
Copper cable wire & Bamboo thin sticks is best option...
White cement plaster fill
Do you mean PTFE tape? Good vid
Why not use Epoxy putty? Hardens after about 5 minutes. Or use normal epoxy - again quick to go off and pretty cheap.
I drilled my hole to big for the size of rawplugs I had I used electrical tape around the rawplug
Hi what works best if you will use the hole for your curtain rods? Thank you for anyone who's going to answer
It varies depending on what type of wall you have meaning stud / drywall, block cement, red brick, concrete, etc.
@@brieftodo it's a loose cement
@@brieftodo HOW ABOUT WALL PUTTY. WATER SEAL OR CEMENT ITSELF. WHATS THE BEST TOUGH FIX WOULD YOU REFCOMMEND ON YOUR EXPERIENCE.??? 🙄🙄🙄
@@melonshop8888 He's asking the question here, so your supposed to *give an answer* don't ask another question in *BLOCK LETTERS*. Jeesh!
Spread the plug with no more nails.
I've seen super glue mixed with baking soda goes off rock hard.
What a load of absolute cobblers! LMAO
you should have finished the test by screwing a screw in each of the plug and check which one doesn't "turn through" the hardness
while looking for toothpicks, i lost my screw :(
Weekday about filler?
Wouldn’t you just buy slightly larger wall plugs?
And where is the test?
Tru Dat
Rawl plug not wall plug.
I’d never use chewing gum. It’s not a structural material and even if it works well, if anyone found out I’d be laughed at for the rest of my life.
Imagine telling your partner you used chewing gum to hold up a set of shelves…. Or having another builder see that you used chewing gum…. It’s ok in a dire emergency but there are so many better options available.
People only laugh at Gaffer Tape. Chewing Gum was used by US Servicemen during WW2 to fix fuel tanks in Superfortresses, and you can't be more Manly Man than that.
Using Matchsticks to damage the inner wall... How tragic can it be? 😰
Thanks 👍