How to hang a chandelier on a plasterboard ceiling?

When all the finishing works in your room are finished and it's time to fill it with furniture, hang the ceiling lamp. Quite naturally, the question of how to fix a chandelier on the ceiling of gypsum board will be solved with the help of additional equipment and devices. The fact is that the hook that we are accustomed to sticking out of the plate here can be used theoretically. In fact, we will not be able to hang a chandelier on a plasterboard ceiling without studs, since the very principle of fixation will differ.

How to hang a chandelier?

There are two options for fixing the chandelier to the ceiling from gypsum board: on the hook or rail. Here everything depends on the chosen model of the lamp itself. But the studs, called "parachutes", are presented in both types, so when buying a chandelier, you need to immediately buy for it and the stud itself.

  1. The photo shows "parachutes" for both rails and hooks. We will consider how to fix a chandelier on the ceiling of plasterboard, it is with the help of a rack system.
  2. The ceiling will be the main stationary cable. We need to attach the rail itself and note where there are holes for the studs. Do holes with a perforator. For obvious reasons, it works in the mode without impact, and the drill is taken with a diameter of 14 mm.
  3. Mounting the chandelier to the ceiling of the plasterboard is as follows: we insert our hairpin in the folded form just into the hole. Next, you need to release the hairpin and its parachute will straighten automatically, just the wings and will hold the whole structure. Due to the strength of the hairpin and the correct thickness of the gypsum, the luminaire will hold perfectly.
  4. We installed the studs and now fix the bar. To do this, pass the main cable in the middle hole, then fix the sides of the bar using nuts puffs on the pins.
  5. In the instructions of the lamp itself, there is always a detailed description of how to hang a chandelier on the plasterboard ceiling on the bar, and the studs adapt it to the plasterboard. That's actually the whole wisdom of installing a ceiling light.