Vormulac
Established Member
Hi folks,
It's a long time since I was on here, life has been very busy and a couple of weeks ago we moved house.
My feet haven't touched the ground since we moved, my diy skills have been in use every day (apart from the last few days when I was hospitalised!) but I have hit a snag. We have several fairly large mirrors that we need to hang and this is causing a problem. I lost my venerable stud/wire finder in the move and so bought a new Stanley one (junk - it went straight back) and then a Bosch one which has very good reviews - the problem is that if this finder is to be believed, there is pipework in almost every square inch of the walls where I want to put these mirrors up! Ok, I can find the odd patch here and there that doesn't raise any alarms, but of course that's no use when there are three other screwholes in the mirror that need to go into a 'clear' patch.
Is anyone aware of anything that would so consistently confound a 'finder' (it is supposedly finding ferrous stuff - presumably pipes)?
Can anyone suggest an alternative method of checking what's really going on in that wall?
Can anyone think of another way of hanging mirrors (frameless type) that doesn't involve drilling into the wall (and penetrating the endless morass of pipework apparently in there...)
Cheers all!
V.
It's a long time since I was on here, life has been very busy and a couple of weeks ago we moved house.
My feet haven't touched the ground since we moved, my diy skills have been in use every day (apart from the last few days when I was hospitalised!) but I have hit a snag. We have several fairly large mirrors that we need to hang and this is causing a problem. I lost my venerable stud/wire finder in the move and so bought a new Stanley one (junk - it went straight back) and then a Bosch one which has very good reviews - the problem is that if this finder is to be believed, there is pipework in almost every square inch of the walls where I want to put these mirrors up! Ok, I can find the odd patch here and there that doesn't raise any alarms, but of course that's no use when there are three other screwholes in the mirror that need to go into a 'clear' patch.
Is anyone aware of anything that would so consistently confound a 'finder' (it is supposedly finding ferrous stuff - presumably pipes)?
Can anyone suggest an alternative method of checking what's really going on in that wall?
Can anyone think of another way of hanging mirrors (frameless type) that doesn't involve drilling into the wall (and penetrating the endless morass of pipework apparently in there...)
Cheers all!
V.