I recently posted a thread entitiled "Hows it hanging" as I was looking for advice on how to ceiling mount my projector without bolting to joists, lifting floor boards etc but simply screwing into plasterboard.
After a few helpful replies advising that going into plasterboard was absolute fine and giving me advice on what screws to get and that the job was easy, I was quite confident I could do the job.
I am totally crap at DIY but after the advice I got, I thought even I could not botch the job.
I went to B&Q to buy the Hollow Wall anchor screws I was advised to get and seeing as the projector is very heavy I thought I would get heavy duty ones - used for kitchen cabinets and such like.
It would seem that there is no job simple enough for me not to muck up. I have just attempted to fix the ceiling mount to the ceiling only to find that the anchor screws I bought are too big and there a about an inch gap between the mount and the ceiling. I cannot tighten the screws so that the mount is solidly in place.
I have just given up with the living room covered in plasterboard dust (as am I) and I have downed my first comfort beer in the hope I can prove to myself I am a man.
The question is can I get such a thing as spacers so that I can tighten the screws or do I buy smaller anchors and start again hoping that I can hide the wholes already created by the current anchor screws?
Can anybody help a useless b****** or better still come and put it up for me.
Cheers
After a few helpful replies advising that going into plasterboard was absolute fine and giving me advice on what screws to get and that the job was easy, I was quite confident I could do the job.
I am totally crap at DIY but after the advice I got, I thought even I could not botch the job.
I went to B&Q to buy the Hollow Wall anchor screws I was advised to get and seeing as the projector is very heavy I thought I would get heavy duty ones - used for kitchen cabinets and such like.
It would seem that there is no job simple enough for me not to muck up. I have just attempted to fix the ceiling mount to the ceiling only to find that the anchor screws I bought are too big and there a about an inch gap between the mount and the ceiling. I cannot tighten the screws so that the mount is solidly in place.
I have just given up with the living room covered in plasterboard dust (as am I) and I have downed my first comfort beer in the hope I can prove to myself I am a man.
The question is can I get such a thing as spacers so that I can tighten the screws or do I buy smaller anchors and start again hoping that I can hide the wholes already created by the current anchor screws?
Can anybody help a useless b****** or better still come and put it up for me.
Cheers