How do I make sure the heavy mirror I hang on the wall is safe and won't fall off?

All wall hangings are only as strong as the anchor points and what they anchor into,I've found that the supplied anchors are never what I'd consider strong enough,maybe because my backgrounds engineering,and my engineering rule is always overdo it.Increase the diameter and length of the fixings,use the biggest I can get in and worry about the ascetics later.And my not so scientific test is to see if it can hold my weight,which might be a little over 40 kays.I've seen too many shelves and such fail their little yellow plugs and screws that they come supplied with.When in doubt,go bigger.It sometimes takes a little finessing to hide the fixings but none of my hangings 'ever' fall down.

You really do need the strength of wall studs to support a weight that heavy.

I've seen two different kinds of stud finders at hardware stores. One works by magnetically finding the nail or nails at the base of the stud, so you can run a plumb line and find the stud up where you need it. The other kind, which I think is better, uses sonic waves. It makes a different sound when it's over the the air space between studs than when it's over a solid stud. If you approach the stud slowly from one direction and then the other, you can get a pretty accurate idea where the stud is.

For greater security, if your mirror is wide enough, you could hang it using two studs, one hanger on each. Studs are generally 16 inches apart in modern construction, although this could vary. Make sure the hangers and nails are very large and strong.

Is there wallpaper where you want to hang the mirror? If so, you're lucky -- just use a sharp knife to cut a pennant-shaped triangle, and fold the point under, leaving a bare place to make a hole. When it comes time to move, fill in the hole and unfold and re-glue the wallpaper.

10 kilos is very heavy, make sure you pout 2 nails 6 niches apart Tide the mirror with wire and not string let the mirror down an at he bottom 2 edges pout one Neall an each corner 3 inches higher than the the mirror and let the mirror hang in angle make sure the wire is attached to the center of the mirror

maximum plasterboard is fixed on a physique made up of three" x 2" timber. it fairly is the 'stud' each and all of the technical human beings communicate approximately. you are able to many times discover the place they are by gently tapping the plasterboard. reckoning on the age of the wall/plasterboard they are going to be the two sixteen" aside or 400mm aside. do no longer attempt to repair something direct to plasterboard, discover the studs and, in the event that they are timber screw your replicate fixings into them, contained in direction of the plasterboard. on the different hand locate a guy who knows of what he's doing, they love showing off. solid success

Whenever I had problems using wall studs, I anchored a strip of wood horizontally to the studs within the dimensions of the mirror. Then I anchored the mirror to that strip of wood.

The strip was hidden by the mirror.

i'm not familiar with that track but assume it's meant for mirrors etc. if it is well anchored it should be fine, did you screw into the studs