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nailing conduit to red brick
trying to fit pvc conduit to a red brick wall with very limited sucess,
masonry nails just bending, any ideas apart from drilling and screwing? |
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Staffbull wrote:
trying to fit pvc conduit to a red brick wall with very limited sucess, masonry nails just bending, any ideas apart from drilling and screwing? Drilling and nailing. There are fixings designed that way. Try an electrical wholesaler |
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Stuart Noble wrote:
Staffbull wrote: trying to fit pvc conduit to a red brick wall with very limited sucess, masonry nails just bending, any ideas apart from drilling and screwing? NoNail it to the wall,after all it will be plastered over eventually. -- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite |
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nailing conduit to red brick
"Staffbull" wrote in message ps.com... trying to fit pvc conduit to a red brick wall with very limited sucess, masonry nails just bending, any ideas apart from drilling and screwing? nail into the mortar or fit timber plugs like in the olden days |
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In message , Stuart Noble
writes Staffbull wrote: trying to fit pvc conduit to a red brick wall with very limited sucess, masonry nails just bending, any ideas apart from drilling and screwing? Drilling and nailing. There are fixings designed that way. Try an electrical wholesaler Or Exterior no more nails worked for him ... http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~gizmo/pi...re%20Nails.jpg -- geoff |
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Staffbull wrote: trying to fit pvc conduit to a red brick wall with very limited sucess, masonry nails just bending, any ideas apart from drilling and screwing? Thanks, I think I'll no more nails will do, I would nail the mortar bed but I have left the rendering on the wall to plaster over it so can't see where the mortar is! |
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