Tim S wrote:
I do, couple of thousand in fact.

Assuming that got past your SPAM filter...

When I were a lad, we had phillips and slotted, brass and steel, round
heads, countersunk and the old one inbetween in between.

Went to Screwfix with the intent of buying a couple of mega packs of
general purpose woodscrews...

Turbogold, goldscrew, spax, quicksilver...

Ow... I feel like someone just dug me out the ground (I'm 40).

So whats the best general purpose screw these days? I have two
principal uses:

Screw to wood and screw to masonary walls with plugs.

Should I just go with the screws I know and love, or are these new
products really better? I don't mind being old fashioned and drilling
pilot holes and countersinking.

I use either Turbogold or Quicksilver.

Turbogold are wonderful! No pilot, go in right up to edges without
splitting, self countersink, fast to drive, sharp point so easy to start.
Great product.

Only disadvantages - not good at pulling together two pieces of wood with a
gap, most sizes are threaded for all their length - you need to hold the
pieces together firmly, and they chew up plastic plugs IMO.

I use Quicksilver for fixing with plastic plugs - on which subject Rawlplug
'Uno' are brilliant for multi purpose use, plasterboard, block, brick
whatever. I used to carry hollow & solid wall plugs on the van, now I just
carry the 'Uno' plugs.


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk