# Which fastener holds a loaded pegboard, by wall type — version 1.0, last checked 2026-09-17. License CC BY 4.0. Every figure is quoted from the source in its row.
Wall type,Fastener / anchor,Manufacturer rating as published,Rating type,"Rated load per panel (working load, not ultimate)",Working,Spacing / edge distance for full rating,Specification source,Source URL,Source checked
Drywall over wood stud — screwed into the framing,Wood screw into the stud (mounting screws supplied with a metal pegboard kit),200 lb per panel into studs,"manufacturer per-panel recommendation (already a working figure, not a lab ultimate)",200 lb,Quoted directly. Wall Control states this as its own recommendation for a correctly installed 16 x 32 in panel — no arithmetic of ours involved.,"6 mounting points per panel, aligned to 16 in stud centres",Wall Control 16 x 32 in Metal Pegboard — product specifications,https://wallcontrol.com/products/32in-x-16in-metal-pegboard-tool-board-panel,2026-09-17
"Drywall only, no stud within reach — kit-included anchor",Drywall anchor supplied with the kit (Wall Control does not name the anchor type),100 lb per panel with drywall anchors,manufacturer per-panel recommendation,100 lb,"Quoted directly, same source and panel as the row above. Wall Control does not say which anchor is in the box, so there is no anchor-level spec to check independently — this number is only as good as the manufacturer's own claim.",same 6-point pattern as the stud row,Wall Control 16 x 32 in Metal Pegboard — product specifications,https://wallcontrol.com/products/32in-x-16in-metal-pegboard-tool-board-panel,2026-09-17
"Drywall only, no stud within reach — upgraded to a rated toggle anchor","TOGGLER SNAPTOGGLE heavy-duty toggle bolt, 1/4-20 (Anchor Type BB)","265 lb ultimate tensile pull-out and 241 lb ultimate shear, per anchor, in 1/2 in drywall","ultimate (independent lab test), per anchor — not a per-panel figure",approx. 396 lb tension / approx. 360 lb shear per panel,"TOGGLER's own note says industry standards recommend using 1/4 of the ultimate test load: 66 lb tension and 60 lb shear per anchor. Multiplied by 6 — the number of mounting points Wall Control uses on a panel this size (row 1) — for a per-panel figure, because TOGGLER publishes a per-anchor rating, not a per-panel one. That multiplication assumes all 6 anchors share the load evenly, which is optimistic: a hook near one edge loads the nearest anchor harder than the average. Treat the per-panel figure as an upper bound, not a target.",not published for anchor-to-anchor spacing in this document — SNAPTOGGLE's table varies by drywall thickness and bolt size only,TOGGLER SNAPTOGGLE Heavy-Duty Toggle Bolts — Technical Data,https://toggler.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SNAPTOGGLE%C2%AE-Heavy-Duty-Toggle-Bolts-2024_compressed.pdf,2026-09-17
Solid poured concrete,"Tapcon concrete screw anchor, 1/4 in diameter, 1 in embedment","750 lb ultimate tension and 900 lb ultimate shear, per anchor, at 2,000 PSI concrete (the lowest strength Tapcon publishes for — a conservative stand-in if you don't know your slab's rating)","ultimate (lab), per anchor","approx. 1,128 lb tension / approx. 1,350 lb shear per panel","ITW Red Head states allowable loads are the ultimate test load divided by 4: 188 lb tension, 225 lb shear per anchor. Multiplied by 6 mounting points (the same borrowed assumption as the row above) for a per-panel figure — our arithmetic, not Tapcon's own claim, and again optimistic about even load-sharing.","Full rated capacity needs 4 in spacing between anchors and 2-1/2 in edge distance from a corner or edge, for this anchor diameter. Closer than that, the manufacturer's own reduction factor cuts capacity to as little as 0.66x at 2 in spacing or 0.82x at 1-1/4 in edge distance. A 16 x 32 in panel's mounting holes are far enough apart that spacing isn't the constraint; edge distance can be, if you mount close to a wall corner.",Tapcon Screw Anchor — Technical Data (ITW Red Head),https://www.itwredhead.com/portals/0/fmproductcatalog/documents/products/37/tapcontechnicaldata.pdf,2026-09-17
Hollow concrete block (CMU),"Tapcon concrete screw anchor, 1/4 in diameter, 1 in embedment","Lightweight block: 250 lb ultimate tension, 620 lb ultimate shear. Medium-weight block: 500 lb ultimate tension, 1,000 lb ultimate shear. Per anchor.","ultimate (lab), per anchor","Lightweight block: approx. 378 lb tension / approx. 930 lb shear per panel. Medium-weight block: approx. 750 lb tension / approx. 1,500 lb shear per panel.","Same divide-by-4 rule as the concrete row: lightweight block allowable is 63 lb tension / 155 lb shear per anchor; medium-weight is 125 lb tension / 250 lb shear. Multiplied by 6 mounting points, same borrowed assumption and the same caveat about even load-sharing. Tapcon does not publish a way for a homeowner to tell ""lightweight"" from ""medium-weight"" block by eye — if you don't know your block, the lightweight figure is the conservative one to plan around.",Tapcon's technical data does not publish a block-specific spacing/edge-distance table separate from the concrete one above.,Tapcon Screw Anchor — Technical Data (ITW Red Head),https://www.itwredhead.com/portals/0/fmproductcatalog/documents/products/37/tapcontechnicaldata.pdf,2026-09-17