Which sort of wallplug for brick/masonry do posters here prefer?

I just use whatevers to hand, whatever fits. They all seem to work ok,
whatever theyre made of, whatever shape.

Some are less tolerant than others though, some are fine with a wide
range of screws, some it has to be just right or they dont bite enough.
The onse with a non-split round outer are fussier.


Slice the flange off another wallplug and shove that in afterwards.

thats what i do with soft walls. Its remarkable how much of a problem a
0.25mm flange is, the slice off is essential. The screw sizes can be
completely ignored, I've happily used decent size screws on the
smallest of plugs. The final size is going to be plug wall width +
screw size minus a bit of compression, regardless of what the plug
designer thinks.


I also saw "Rawlplug compound", or at least a modern version of it
recently. A compound-filled paper "coffee filter" that you wet, then
shoved down the hole.

how do those work? do they expand when wet, and fill the hole? I coudnt
see how shoving a bit of paper down the hole could work.


Rule number one. Unpack product, find screws & plugs supplied, throw
in
bin, use some proper ones.

and wonder how they ever thought that 5kg could be supported on 2x 1"
scerws that dont even get through the plaster... what delusional people
pick those screws? Have they been had for personal injury claims yet?


An off-cut of wood trimmed to fit with a Swiss Army knife, hammered in
until
the bit sticking out seriously starts to mushroom and finally
chiselled off
flush with the wall.

Thin dowel is workable too. For folks that cant get by without the old
long sticks, those work quite well. Pine dowel is a bit softer but its
still pretty good. Not as easy to trim as a matchstick though.

When I was plugging 6" coach screws I had to use wood and knife, never
seen ready made plugs that size. I suppose I could have sawn off the
end of the broom handle and used that.

Do those 15' screws come with rawlplugs?


NT