Anchors for wall

We used them for hanging up a towel hook in the bathroom of the last trailer. We have had some triple digit weather and they held. My brackets for the TP holder does not have much of a base area...more of just a perimeter so I am not sure how good they will work. May give it a try though.

Do the Command Strips hold up to the heat? We live in Arizona, and I'm sure it gets really hot in the trailer when it's in storage.

I have had good luck with standard plastic anchors and a small amount of Gorilla glue. Just be careful not to use too much GG. I dab it on the anchor with a toothpick.

Thanks myredracer. I like these. My exploration tells me there is nothing in the wall...and I did look at everything. Not sure where my wife wants the TP holder yet.

I like using Oscar rivets for this sort of thing which are a special type of pop rivet for use in RVs. They have really good holding strength and don't require a large diameter "invasive" hole. They are 1" long and only need a small 3/16" dia. hole in a wall. Regular pop rivets won't work.

Yes, you need to be mindful of things that may be concealed within a wall cavity. I use a drill with a piece of tape wrapped around it as a depth gauge. If you use a depth gauge, you won't damage wires. But there can be plumbing vent pipes in a wall in a location you wouldn't expect so be very careful. With some investigation you may be able to confirm if there is a pipe in the wall or not. If there is something on the ceiling like a vent or skylight bezel, you can feel up in the ceiling for a pipe. You can see where the vent is on a roof, and I would expect it to drop straight down, but I'm not sure if they ever offset a pipe in a ceiling cavity. I could have drilled a 3/4" hole through a vent pipe once in our TT because the pipe wasn't where I expected it to be.

Good point. It is a wall with no lights, outlets or switches.

With anything that penetrates the wall, you have to be concerned with what's behind the wall. Running a screw into an electrical wire can have disastrous effects. Be careful.

Ron

Thanks for the input. I was thinking of the above two anchors but I was concerned the screw type wouldn't have much to bite into. I may try the top molly or the command strips...but I am open to suggestions.

3M Command Strips® work quite well until the wallpaper fails.

Molly® screw anchors also work well:



I like these:

Dennis M M wrote:
3M Command Strips

They will hold considerable weight and are removable with no damage. We use them for coat hoots beside the door and those will hold heavy jackets.

X2 Big fan of these they work great and come in all sizes.