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[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well please excuse my German stubbornness... The drywall anchors (thanks @stevehobbes@lemm.ee for the word) I know and often installed were certified up to 40 kilogram - per anchor (single layer drywall, one anchor per meter as a rule of thumb). A rack full of stuff like in the picture won't have more than 50 kilogram load (static load - please tell your kids not to climb onto the shelves) so two such anchors would have handled that easily, and there's plenty of room to install more than two.

I understand that other parts of the world live up to other standards.

[-] onlym3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Agree - have previously fixed a wooden bed frame to drywall using 4 such anchors with no problems. Not as daft as it sounds - it was probably only supporting 20% of the bed and the weight on it, so unlikely to reach 100kg even with 2 people in/on the bed!

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