[mark]

I want to put up loads of 'Spur' shelving on a garage wall made of soft
block.
What would be the best fixing type to use?


mark

[Tim W[_2_]]

mark
wibbled on Wednesday 06 January 2010 11:20



I want to put up loads of 'Spur' shelving on a garage wall made of soft
block.
What would be the best fixing type to use?


mark

I used Fischer frame fixings in soft block (the ones that have a lot of
teeth).

These:

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/82221

(Fischer Universal - choose your length as required).

Even then they had a slight tendency to turn in the hole if you tried
undoing them. Smear of Alradite stopped that.

They were incredibly secure - just drill your hole carefully with an HSS
drill (not a masonry bit) and use the exact drill size that the box says.

You'll need a torx bit IIRC for these.

--
Tim Watts

You know you need more insulation when the snow blanket on the roof makes
the house 3 degrees warmer...

[Stuart Noble]

mark wrote:
I want to put up loads of 'Spur' shelving on a garage wall made of soft
block.
What would be the best fixing type to use?


mark





IME ordinary plugs are fine if your holes are the right size

[Mike Harrison]

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:20:45 -0000, "mark" wrote:



I want to put up loads of 'Spur' shelving on a garage wall made of soft
block.
What would be the best fixing type to use?


mark




I spent a while testing various plugs for this a few years ago.
I can't remember the exact plug I ended up using, but the most important thing was to set the plug
deeper than you would in brick, so the top was about half an inch below the surface, which prevents
the surface breaking up as the plug expands..
Choice of plug was dictated by needing to be one that didn't have a significant lip, so it could be
set deep enough.

[Adrian C]

On 06/01/2010 11:44, Stuart Noble wrote:
mark wrote:
I want to put up loads of 'Spur' shelving on a garage wall made of
soft block.
What would be the best fixing type to use?

IME ordinary plugs are fine if your holes are the right size

I made small wooden blocks to fill in the space in the uprights channel
and drilled through so on initially tightening the screws, the plug
doesn't leave the wall. Got them well tight. The house would fall down
first.

Ye could drill a bit bigger, or hammer 'em, to locate the whole plug
into the wall material so that when initally tightened it stays within,
but that's risking some that spin (hole now too big) and then faffing
about with packing materials. I hate that.

--
Adrian C