For Sale: Cycle hooks

I've used those things, but they are crap. They only hold radiators because they are used over a large surface area and the pipework is holding the radiator up. I would not trust a TV to them either, seeing as they won't hold a toilet roll holder or a towel rail to my bathroom walls properly.

Bluntly, if you've fixed a bog roll holder or a towel rail to plasterboard using the fixings I linked to, and they're not fixed properly, you haven't used the fixings properly.

As for TVs, I've put a fair number on walls using them and not had any complaints about them falling down. I tend to make sure the bracket will take my weight before putting a TV on it.

I certainly wouldn't be happy hanging bikes off them. Over such a small load area, if they don't fail the plasterboard will.

Certainly worth thinking about. Looking at those hooks, my guess is that the bulk of the weight is acting in sheer, where plasterboard's pretty good. If that guess is wrong and there's a lot of force pulling the fixings outwards then yeah, there's a risk of the board failing.

But I'd say that the length of the arm means that there's not a huge cantilever action happening, so I'd definitely give them a go in my own place if I had (i) any of the hooks and (ii) any plasterboard walls.

Anyway, I have a buyer, so...

Fair enough ...