Our lamp in the living room fell down today, luckily no one was home. It's a bit scary, someone could have gotten it on their head, and it could have ended badly.
I personally think that a molly plug in the ceiling should be able to hold up a 2.5 kg lamp. The plug itself survived, but the plaster ceiling broke.
Here is a picture of the hook
The wings above the plasterboard are not completely symmetrical, see below. I don't know if that could be something.
Here are some pictures of the ceiling, poor lighting now that the lamp has fallen down
Why has it turned out this way?
We have other ceiling lamps in the house too which I'm now a bit afraid might fall down. I've taken down the glass parts from the heaviest ones for safety's sake.
You don't have regular drywall on the ceiling - otherwise, it would probably work - it looks like you have some type of ceiling tile made of a more flimsy material than regular drywall.
As I said, take a hook and attach it to the sub-ceiling or nail batten if there is one.
Butterfly not better than molly in that sheet, but in the joint between the sheets visible to the left in the last photo, there is surely a stud to attach there and the sheets are attached to it as well. It will hold well.
But it's not really possible to hang something on a drywall like that even if it's gypsum, right? There's a big difference between vertical drywall and horizontal. You have studs at the joints, where you can insert screws.
Looks like an "under ceiling" of some sort, the material I think can mostly be likened to tretex or a thicker form of porous board. (Had a similar one in a previous house, but there it was glued to the old ceiling) Now that you have a hole, you can remove a piece and check if there is a wooden ceiling above or if you see any gaps.
That looks like the same ceiling panels that were in the house I lived in as a child. I also had a few leftover panels to do woodworking with, and if it's the same material, it's almost paper-like, but quite similar to tretex. It's a very light and porous material that I wouldn't try to hang anything from at all.
Clearly hollow if the tiles are on battens, put a long chisel or something else in your hole there and feel if there's wood there. As others say, if there's wood then it's probably no problem to hang a hook there. It could be a long hook. When you put a hook there, feel if it goes slowly all the way, then it's more solid there.
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Magnus Brange said: