On 4 June, 15:57, Andy Dingley wrote:
On 4 June, 13:44, sm_jamieson wrote:

Anyone used these ?http://www.millepede.co.uk/anchors-a...re-anchor.html

Best possible fixing for aerated blocks.

OTOH, if you're even trying to attach things to aerated blocks, you're
probably doomed.

Aerated blocks are crumbly and have low tensile strength over very
small areas (only something like 1/3rd of the average over a large
area, AFAIR). So other fixings, including resin, that try to attach to
a small hole are likely to fail by this local overloading. These long
split "clothespeg" fasteners aren't great over a small surfae either,
but they're big enough to be adequate and they distribute themselves
over the largest possible volume, so as to avoid local overloading.

I've built kitchen out of them (internal leaf only ;-) WIthout them,
wall would have been thicker and lost more internal space.
I will have to fix kitchen cupboards and a boiler to them.
I may fix ply to the wall with something like lots of these aircrete
fixings, then
screw what I like to the ply.
Simon.