Was recently clipping some electrical cables to a bare brick-wall
prior to it being plaster-boarded.

However, if I hammered the clips into the mortar, they just fell out
again - the wall is ~70 years old.
And try as I might, I could not get them to hammer into the brick.

What's the usual way of attaching these to a brick wall?
Hammer into brick or mortar?

Thanks,
Mark.

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Was recently clipping some electrical cables to a bare brick-wall
prior to it being plaster-boarded.

However, if I hammered the clips into the mortar, they just fell out
again - the wall is ~70 years old.
And try as I might, I could not get them to hammer into the brick.

What's the usual way of attaching these to a brick wall?
Hammer into brick or mortar?

If they are Accrington Iron bricks, you'll struggle all day. I'd suggest
eith drilling the brick or the mortar and using rawlplugs/plasplugs/whatever
to drive the pin into.

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Was recently clipping some electrical cables to a bare brick-wall
prior to it being plaster-boarded.

However, if I hammered the clips into the mortar, they just fell out
again - the wall is ~70 years old.
And try as I might, I could not get them to hammer into the brick.

What's the usual way of attaching these to a brick wall?
Hammer into brick or mortar?

If they are Accrington Iron bricks, you'll struggle all day. I'd suggest
eith drilling the brick or the mortar and using
rawlplugs/plasplugs/whatever to drive the pin into.


Usually go into the mortar. Try hammering them in at a slight angle.

Usually go into the mortar. Try hammering them in at a slight angle.- Hide quoted text -

Try replacing the nails with longer ones.

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JGH

On 19/12/2007 16:32, wrote:

Try replacing the nails with longer ones.

with a ring shank.

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wrote:
Was recently clipping some electrical cables to a bare brick-wall
prior to it being plaster-boarded.

However, if I hammered the clips into the mortar, they just fell out
again - the wall is ~70 years old.
And try as I might, I could not get them to hammer into the brick.

What's the usual way of attaching these to a brick wall?
Hammer into brick or mortar?

B&Q etc sell wall plugs specially for cable clips. Rather long winded but
worth it IMHO. In B&Q you'll find the beside the cable clips rather
than with the other wall plugs. You'll probably need a drill for them
too - IIRC 5mm.

Thanks,
Mark.

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wrote:
Was recently clipping some electrical cables to a bare brick-wall
prior to it being plaster-boarded.

However, if I hammered the clips into the mortar, they just fell out
again - the wall is ~70 years old.
And try as I might, I could not get them to hammer into the brick.

What's the usual way of attaching these to a brick wall?
Hammer into brick or mortar?

B&Q etc sell wall plugs specially for cable clips. Rather long winded but
worth it IMHO. In B&Q you'll find the beside the cable clips rather
than with the other wall plugs. You'll probably need a drill for them
too - IIRC 5mm.


IIRC they are called PIN PLUGS £2.28 for 100 at B&Q, I bought some earlier
this year, as I was also having problems getting nails to go in.

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

B&Q etc sell wall plugs specially for cable clips. Rather long winded but
worth it IMHO. In B&Q you'll find the beside the cable clips rather
than with the other wall plugs. You'll probably need a drill for them
too - IIRC 5mm.

Or just drill a hole and pound a big 'splinter' of wood into the hole
with a hammer until it breaks off. Like a mini version of groundings
for skirting boards etc.

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says...
What's the usual way of attaching these to a brick wall?

Hot melt glue. Just stick the cable to the wall and have done with it.
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Skipweasel.
Never knowingly understood.

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Skipweasel writes
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says...
What's the usual way of attaching these to a brick wall?

Hot melt glue. Just stick the cable to the wall and have done with it.

I used to do this but have stopped after having quite a few failures (in
the bond), I think it's the plasticiser in the PVC sheath leeching and
weakening the bond.
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fred
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Bolted writes:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

B&Q etc sell wall plugs specially for cable clips. Rather long winded but
worth it IMHO. In B&Q you'll find the beside the cable clips rather
than with the other wall plugs. You'll probably need a drill for them
too - IIRC 5mm.

Or just drill a hole and pound a big 'splinter' of wood into the hole
with a hammer until it breaks off. Like a mini version of groundings
for skirting boards etc.

I found a variant of this worked well in my garage.
Hammered some wire clips into the thermal blocks and
they all fell out (no grip). Hammered matchsticks into
the nail holes, and then hammered the clip nails into
the matchsticks, and they've been solid ever since.

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Andrew Gabriel
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