About Put it up

What does Put it up do?

Put it up answers two questions before you make a mark on the wall. Will a no-drill fix take the weight of what you want to put up, going by its maker's own figure? And if not, which fixing, drill bit and screw suit your wall?

The home page, Will it hold?, answers the first question, and What's my wall? answers the second. Guides for each thing and each kind of wall explain the same figures in more detail.

Where do the figures on Put it up come from?

Every load figure on Put it up is the maker's own. For a no-drill fix, such as a strip, a hook or an adhesive shelf, it is the figure the maker prints for the exact set-up it describes. For a wall fixing, it is the fixing maker's recommended load for one fixing in your wall material.

Facts that are not about a product, such as where cables may run in a wall or what landlords claim for at the end of a tenancy, come from whoever publishes them: makers' and retailers' how-to guides, NICEIC on the wiring regulations, a standards body, Electrical Safety First and Shelter, the deposit scheme TDS, and government and legislation sites. Every page names its sources and the date we checked them, and the Sources page shows the exact words we rely on.

We do not load-test fixings or products ourselves, and we do not ask you to take our word over a maker's.

Does Put it up add a safety margin?

No. Put it up never adds a margin of its own. It compares your weight with the maker's figure exactly: your item must weigh no more than that figure, and every condition the maker sets must fit your answers, such as the surface, the room and any waiting time.

We never stretch a figure either. We do not add strips together, work out a figure between two sizes, or scale a figure up or down. The maker's figure is the most it is rated for, not a target.

A margin of our own would be a number with no source behind it, and it would second-guess the makers. fischer, whose wall fixings the site covers, says of its own load tables: “Required safety factors are considered”. Makers also add their own warnings, and we show them with the answer. tesa, for example, says of its Adjustable Adhesive Nail: Ensure the surface can support the weight of the item.

For anything that sticks out from the wall, such as a shelf on brackets, we do not compare your weight with a figure per fixing. The bracket maker's own rating is the limit, and the lower of the two figures applies. How we check a fixing sets out the whole method.

Sources: fischer, Loads, DuoPower, recommended loads for a single anchor. Checked 12 Oct 2026; tesa, tesa Adjustable Adhesive Nail for Wallpaper & Plaster 2kg, Product Information BNR 77777, en-GB, as of 04/08/25. Checked 13 Oct 2026.

What happens when a maker gives no figure?

When a maker gives no figure, Put it up gives no answer rather than a guess. The result says “No maker rating”, and offers a link to find a wall fixing instead.

The same goes for a figure we cannot check: a source we could only read in an archived copy is not used until we have read the maker's live page.

How does Put it up make money?

Links marked Ad go to Amazon. We earn a commission on qualifying purchases made through them. The site is paid for by those commissions. There is no other advertising on the site, and it runs no analytics or tracking code.

A commission never changes an answer or the order of products. Products are chosen from makers' own pages, never from Amazon's data, and they appear only after the answer, never before it. The affiliate disclosure explains the links.

What happens when Put it up gets something wrong?

When we get something wrong, we correct it in public. Each correction is listed on the corrections page with the date, the page, what changed and why, and the same goes for a maker changing its own figure.

Who runs Put it up?

Put it up is run by one person who likes putting things up, and likes it better when they stay up. That is why every answer starts from the maker's own figure and not from anyone's hunch, and why the site says so plainly when a maker gives no figure.

That person is responsible for what the site says. The contact page says how to get in touch.