Turboultra are rather fragile, but leav a nice finish if handled
carefully.

I don't quite understand - do you mean the heads look nice and set in the surface of the material nicely without splintering?

Turboultra are stainless steel, so can be snapped or the heads damaged
rather more easily than turbogold or spax.

I've just remembered Screwfix Select have a "try a free box of
turbogold" offer, but I'm not sure who they're letting sign up to the
select thingy (I got a mailing about it):

https://www.screwfixselect.com/app/s...promotions.jsp



There's a bunch of whatever to masonry fittings now that cut straight
into masonry, no plug required (but you must drill the masonry at the
diameter they specify). Look at the Spax offering and Mulitmonti.


While I don't think I could get my head around not doing it the "old way"
for big heavy things (I'm still brushing the worms off, remember), I might
give these a try for fixing electrical back boxes and pipe clips. I can see
the benefit there and I don't need mentally high strength.

Do they work OK in medium hard brick?

Hmmm - the direct masonry fixing are more for the big stuff - this is
the smallest I could find:

http://www.screwfix.com/search.do;js...=12531&x=0&y=0

It seems Screwfix has dropped the Spax frame anchors - pity, they were
excellent.

This is what I use for the big stuff:

http://www.screwfix.com/cats/101217/Fixings/Multi-Monti

I've used multimonti in concrete, so hard brick should be no problem.