Howdy all,
I am looking for the best anchors to attach French cleats (for light weight odorless cabinets) to my Ford E350’s fiberglass high top walls. I feel some sort of a hollow-wall anchor/screw would be the best. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I would NEVER drill into a fiberglass top!
My first choice would be shelf brackets attached below the fiberglass top or to glue wood runners to the fiberglass top.
With fiberglass you want the weight distributed over as large an area as possible.
This rig is fiberglass from ceiling to floor including the ceiling.
Ok, so if we’re not dealing with a van with a high top added, then what are we dealing with? It’s hard to give good advice without an accurate description of the problem.
Sorry. Thought I gave a pretty accurate description.
This is a high-top, e350 ford van with the top added by the manufacturer. It was a paratransport van.
If it has fiberglass walls, then it’s a bus, not a van, even if it has a van front. Like a Class C motorhome has a van front & drivetrain.
Ok, does it, or did it, have have upper grab bars? If it does, that’s what I’d attach upper cabinets too.
Otherwise do we know anything about any sort of framing in the walls? If there are any, are they metal or wood? Old wood that may have gotten wet, might not be a good choice to anchor anything to. Metal ribs could possibly be good anchor points.
Do you know who made the bus body, and the year?
No upper grab bars, so that option is out. There are metal studs that could be utilized. No wood. This van was made by Ford, 2006.
Okay, I would suggest only attaching anything to metal ribs, or glued on runners. Fiberglass by itself should never be trusted.