How to fit a Ceiling Mounted Saucepan Rack

brendan_donegal

Ok, her indoors has purchased a saucepan rack, she obviously wants it put up!!

That is a problem as I see it, plenty space and only takes 1 hook or eye bolt to take the unit as the 4 corners have chain that meets in the centre, so sounds simple.

But the ceiling construction is concrete slabs, plasterboard ceiling is suspended approx 6 inches from the slabs to allow for air ducting, cables, etc. Suspended on steel studs.

Now I have searched high and low but I cannot find a fitting that has an eye or hook on it that is long enough to reach from ceiling through to the slab and into the slab?

Am I thinking about this wrong? Is there another way of doing this?

mfceiling

You'll not get a fixing that will go through plasterboard and then six inches of a void and then into a hollowcore slab.

By right you should have put 2x2's inside the mf5 ceiling channel to use as a ground - hard enough to find these through the plastered ceiling.

Short of opening the ceiling and either fixing into the hollowcore or putting timber above and then re-slabbing and skimming and painting.

brendan_donegal

Seriously? Not being ungrateful but I'm sure I must be able to get something that will do the job? Surely if they can build sky scrapers and bridges across huge expanses, they can create a fixing for my small issue? maybe you know somewhere that sells this type of product?

paddy147

Simple fix..done this so many times in offices and construction sites where there is false plasterboard ceilings and concrete slab above.

M6 or M8 anchor bolt and some threaded bar,extension nut/collar and then a threaded eye/hook bolt.

SDS Drill and a 300mm long 8mm or 10mm masonary drill bit.

Drill up through void into concrete slab.

Drill 50mm into concrete slab.


Use a long handled screwdriver to fit in the anchor bolt fixing,then use a hammer to smack the screwdriver handle and press the fixing all the way into the hole.

Get your threaded bar and cut to length.Thread it into anchor fixing.

Use 2 nuts and a pipe grips/pliers to tighten it into the anchor bolt fixing...the fixing will also expand to lock itself into the slab.so that it wont pull out.

Screw your extension/coupler onto the threaded bar..then screw the eyebolt/hook into the coupler.

Now hang pot and pan fitting off of eyebolt/hook.

Job done.:D





Oh and dont forget to milk the praise from the wife too.;):pac::D

paddy147

Oh and a small amount of Polyfilla 5 minute filler or one fill filler,and a small lick of white paint...(if needed)

tommy2bad

Paddy beat me to it, threaded bar , useful for all kinds of stuff.

brendan_donegal

Well its up!!
Bored holes in ceiling first one hit the metal joist that holds up the plaster board, such luck...:-) So based on std centre drilled second, bang on hit second joist. Attached decorative piece of wood like what they use around light fittings but their plaster. anyways attached with 4x self tapping screws and then attached the decorative hooks to the wood also pretruding into joist for extra strength and hung it on those.
Been up for 3 or 4 months now fully loaded with pans and junk, looks good.
So thanks for all the ideas

paddy147

brendan_donegal wrote: »

Well its up!!
Bored holes in ceiling first one hit the metal joist that holds up the plaster board, such luck...:-) So based on std centre drilled second, bang on hit second joist. Attached decorative piece of wood like what they use around light fittings but their plaster. anyways attached with 4x self tapping screws and then attached the decorative hooks to the wood also pretruding into joist for extra strength and hung it on those.
Been up for 3 or 4 months now fully loaded with pans and junk, looks good.
So thanks for all the ideas