On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:11:18 +0000, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

If you can get a brick well mortared in the hole, such that the fixing
goes into the brick and not the mortar, then a fast setting cement
might just be acceptable, if you can drill the hole without vibrating
the mortar to bits (or if you're really clever, before you mortar the
brick in

Yes the fixing will go into the (Thermalite) block and I can do it with a
multi-material drill without hammer so as long as the mortar sets
reasonably stiffly it should be OK even if it takes much longer to get to
full strength.



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