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Plastic Rawlplug Success
On 10/12/2017 14:29, wrote:
On Sunday, 10 December 2017 14:12:47 UTC, Bill Wright wrote:
On 10/12/2017 14:01, Clive Arthur wrote:
Maybe everybody does this, but...
Heavy curtains, rail about 100mm from wall so lots of leverage.
Over the years, two brackets at one end have failed a couple of times
and have been fixed by using larger plugs.Â* This time, the holes are
just too big.Â* It's crumbly mortar and plaster which is the problem.
Unfortunate as the other five brackets are nice and solid in brick.
So, I hoover out the 10-15mm crumbly holes, squirt in some hot melt
glue, position a new rawlplug, then fill around it as best I can with
more hot melt glue.Â* Trim excess and refit brackets.
Solid as a rock.
Cheers
Car body filler works as well. Two part epoxy works but it's quite
expensive. You can use a fiver's worth on one hole!
If you do you're paying way too much for the stuff
Usually I find painting the hole with PVA before polyfilling works fine.
NT
A good method indeed, but I'd have to buy some Polyfilla (I have some
PVA), then when set, drill it to take the plug. With the hot melt glue
gun, bish-bash-bosh, sorted, no mess.
Cheers
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Clive
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