How long to fit a bit of dado trunking?

[Jimk]

Half a day?

[ARW]

2nd year apprentice had the task.

I had already drilled the holes and fitted the red rawl plugs. About a

2m length of dado.

He has access to a screw box and an impact driver (with a proper PZ2 bit fitted).

So how long?

[alan_m]

Trick question? Ans: About 2 metres.

[charles]

a full day - and the dado is upside down

[ARW]

Not a trick question. It's about the time to fit it.

[Clive Arthur]

Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch, Dado come and he wan' go home.

Cheers

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)]

I see the comedians are out today. You mean he had to put holes in the thing and actually screw it up? No double sided tape or glue? Radical man.

Should take less than an hour, but probably about three, as he could not find the right sized screws. Brian

[spuorgelgoog]

Did he put it in the wrong room?

And did you give him any washers to go under the screw holes to spread the load properly?

Owain

[Jeff Layman]

On the news last Sunday:

[John Rumm]

3 h

[Andrew]

How many screws did he break by using the impact driver in full-on gorilla mode ?.

[alan_m]

In full gorilla mode he would have driven the screw head completely through what he was trying to fix, necessitating a screw with a larger head or a big washer.

[michael adams]

That's after he's managed to remove that screw complete with plug possibly bringing bits of plasterboard and brick dust with it thus requiring the drilling of an even bigger hole, maybe requiring a brown plug and a fatter screw this time.

michael adams

....

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)]

Or get all the plaster off the wall as he did it. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)]

Those cup washers are very useful things, but nobody seems to use them any more. Brian

[ARW]

Probably the closest.

The actual answer is that he was unable to to the job.

He used 3" screws, rammed them in all the way thus pulling out the red plug. He managed on every red plug.

Absolutely useless.

[Tim Lamb]

In message <qs8ljt$ee5$ [e-mail]>, "Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)" [e-mail]> writes

I do. Sadly the *far Eastern source* version is prone to rust.

[Bob Eager]

I used some last week. There's a wooden panel screwed to the ceiling of the loo at the back of the kitchen extension - gives access to the kitchen roof space.

It had bare screws and I added cup washers and proper screws!

(it's a tight fit for me getting through the hole because no joists have been taken out and they're close together. Then I remind myself that when we did the last bit of wiring up there, SWMBO did it because I needed to be elsewhere to do stuff at the same time.

And she was 8 months pregnant.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)]

No sense of when its tight enough then, or were the screws too small? Brian

[GB]

Adam's made it clear that it was his fault. He didn't drill the holes deep enough. :)