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Was recently clipping some electrical cables to a bare brick-wall
prior to it being plaster-boarded.

However, if I hammered the clips into the mortar, they just fell out
again - the wall is ~70 years old.
And try as I might, I could not get them to hammer into the brick.

What's the usual way of attaching these to a brick wall?
Hammer into brick or mortar?

If they are Accrington Iron bricks, you'll struggle all day. I'd suggest
eith drilling the brick or the mortar and using
rawlplugs/plasplugs/whatever to drive the pin into.


Usually go into the mortar. Try hammering them in at a slight angle.