nailing a downpipe bracket to the wall

[Lurch]

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 23:01:27 GMT, "j west +++" strung together this:

Er, troll surely?

[G&M]

Nail it and the pebbledash will probably fall off. Use a proper drill.

[j west +++]

hi, can someone advise a novice on how best to attach the plastic brackets for a plastic down pipe (carrying water from the bath) to the wall outside. The wall is rendered in pebble dash. i know i could drill and put in a rawplug, but is there an easier way like some sort of nail or something i could bang in with a hammer.

thanking you for any help. john west

[John Rumm]

You will probably find the drill and plug solution is the "easy way". Nailing into pebbledash is no easy. You would need a decent masonary nail (Obo is a comon brand), but even then you may find the head is too small and pulls through the hole in the clip.

[Dave Stanton]

Well I went to a job on Fri where the customer asked me to put a kitchen light back up which the previous ' lecky' had NAILED to the plasterboard ceiling instead of using plasterboard fixings AND had not earthed the metal fitting !!!.

Dave

[Lurch]

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 07:24:14 +0100, Dave Stanton strung together this:

Sounds like my Sisters new place, if it can't be fixed with silicone and\or nails it's left dangling. (Obviously by the previous owners, not the new stuff I'm putting in!)

[Lobster]

Nah, highly unlikely. You never had the pleasure(?!) of watching someone trying to insert screws using a hammer?

David

[Lurch]

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 17:34:26 GMT, Rick Dipper strung together this:

As a pro once said to me, "the slots are there for if you need to get the screw out again"!

[N. Thornton]

use a masonry drill bit - sounds like the OP may not know.

Regards, NT

[mike ring]

[e-mail] (Lobster) wrote in news: [e-mail]:

I'd rather do that than try to hammer in on of those b******* masonry nails.

Never had a success yet, and too many life-threatening near misses

mike

[Owain]

"Lurch" wrote | Sounds like my Sisters new place, if it can't be fixed with | silicone and\or nails it's left dangling.

alt.implants-and-extreme-piercings is thataway ---> :-)

Owain

[Rick Dipper]

Pritt Stick ......Easier to use than a nail, and will probably hold just as well.

You can drill, insert raw plug, and the nail into the raw plug if you can't use a screw driver.

Rick

[Rick Dipper]

You been watching my dad ?

He has 2 tools "screw driver" - looks like a hammer and a "screw twister"

Rick

[N. Thornton]

Why not nail the downpipe to the wall at the top, and to the front door at the bottom. Now your step will be automaticaly washed every time it rains - but here's the good bit - when you open the door to step out, the water is automatically diverted elsewhere! Neat huh.

Regards, NT