Someone in the house or apartment is not hanging locker? A variety of shelves?
Basically all our various cupboards and drawers are attached to the wall with dowels made of different materials, but most - of iron, as they tightened. Iron anchors are attached to the wall heavy shelf or shelves, which will be located a lot of things, and generally used for light plastic fasteners, since it is cheaper and in this case profitable.
If on your shelf will lie pack of cotton wool, cotton sticks jar and a bottle of iodine, then too strong fastening is not necessary, because all this is not of great weight.
However, more recently dowels did not exist even in the idea, and if you are wondering how to attach shelf or cabinet to the wall without such a fixture, then we will tell you how it did before, a little more than half a century ago.
To be precise, the first dowel was used only in 50-ies, which was fairly reliable way to attach the shelf to the wall, but the way people treated before? After all, until the fifties wall human dwellings were full of heavy books and figurines, which is logical, standing on the shelves.
It turns out to fix something on the wall is not so difficult without dowels as it seems, at least, if the walls in your home are not made of wood.
To do this, you must drill a hole in the wall surface, and then cut out of some dense material (usually cut from a piece of wood) so-called "Chopyk" the size of the holes. He must very tightly clogged a hammer to get him was very difficult. If you doubt that you could do it strongly enough, you can smear Chopyk glue, and then beat him into the wall. So surely it from there to pull back does not happen.
Further, Chopyk hammered the nail and the nail is already mounted regiment. Instead of nails, you can use shurupchik.
It is attached to the wall cabinets up to the fifties, and maybe you will be surprised, but the screws at the time there were already around the mid-19th century and were very popular.
In fact, this method is considered to be even more reliable than fixing with dowels. Chopyk itself rests in the wall very hard due to the measurement (of course, if you make the right metering), and after you have it hammered the nail or screw the screw, chop expand and pull it out of the wall will be the task almost impossible.
So be precise in choosing a place under a shelf, because in the future to correct the error will be very difficult.