Has anyone used Fischer Wet and Fix?
I'm putting some cupboards up at work tomorrow and I know what to expect, trouble drilling and plugging the walls.
This product is wetted then wrapped around the plug, inserted back into the hole and it sticks in minutes (apparently).
I need to get the job done same day so it's either this or my usual method of drilling all over the place until I find something solid and then screwing planks to the wall first.
I've used them in solid wall when the hole has been too big nd they seem to do what they say on the tin.
They look every bit like a circle of cloth soaked in plaster of Paris.
Andrew
Did you translate that from the copy-writer's "It consists of a cotton weaved pad impregnated with a special formulated gypsum which bonds naturally into masonry, ceramic, wood and plasterboard walls"?
I've used them in this crumbling Victorian hovel. They seemed to work OK - but I'd still rather have ye olde Rawlplastic.
FWIW when I bought them they were cheaper online from wetnfix.co.uk than from SF etc
Yes I certainly keep a pack in my toolbox for occasional emergency use - they work very well - better than padding out with matchsticks and will cope with 'worse' holes. Shouldn't be regarded as a complete cure-all for totally crumbly walls though; they are only as strong as the substrate.
Mine are 'Wickes' own-brand: don't know how the prices compare but I'll be they're cheaper than Fischer
David
Cheers.
Previously in the same room I have an area of wall that looks like Swiss cheese from where I tried to put a shelf up.
As it happens I hung 8 wall units and 2 corner units (never again) without too much issue. Not often a job goes as well as this one did.
I might quit DIY while i'm ahead.
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