What Do Wall Plugs Do

Wall plugs are essential when hanging cabinets, mirrors and shelves – in fact anything you want to attach to your walls. … They expand to securely grip the sides of the hole you have drilled, and will help to hold the screw in place without damaging your walls.

What is the point of a wall plug?

A wall plug (commonly called a rawl plug) is used to ensure screws driven into masonry walls provide a secure fixing. Without them, screws would not grip into masonry and would not provide adequate compressive force to ensure a secure, permanent fixing.

Do you need wall plugs for plaster?

There are a variety of fixing available just for this but what you cannot do is use ordinary wall plugs. The wallplugs do expand as you screw into them, but the plasterboard is soft and the expansion simply widens the hole you have put the plug into. … To fix to plasterboard properly you need to use proprietary fixings.