Wall plugs and appropriate screws

[Nick]

I'm not up to date with modern wall plug and screw technology. Have always used Rawlplugs and std slotted woodscrews. Now need to replenish stock. Nothing major, just fixing odds & sods in and around the house. Any recommendations please.

Nick.

[fred]

In article , Nick writes

Best all rounder (particularly in plasterboard), Rawlplug uno, various sizes:

standard pozi screws are fine, eg Sfx Quicksilver:

deep cut specialist screws eg.Goldscrew, they cut the plug rather than spread it)

Perhaps a little shallow for old plaster over brick, there use fischer universal eg:

description they are actually 8x50 so use 2"x10 or similar screws or add to length for material thickness)

Best specialist fixings, Fischer.

Screwfix codes only for easy reference, I'd use Toolstation for price but they don't do unos.

[The Medway Handyman]

Absolutely agree 100%. These things are the mutts nuts.

Yup. 100% agreement again.

Have you been reading my mind? :-)

I don't find them any better than Uno's and they cost more.

Same here, I wish Toolstation did sell them, it's all I buy from SF now. Useless lot, always run out of Uno's & you end up buying selection packs - which I don't want.

[Tim Watts]

Agree.

Best for shitty substrates (other than using resin) is the SX plug - it has teeth along the whole length and is available in quite long lenths at relatively small screw diameters. Extremely solid IME on cheese-block type walls for heavy loads.

$MART-HK-$MKAT-HK-$MPG-G1-$MZG-F1&ekat=$EKAT-HK-EN> Screwfix codes only for easy reference, I'd use Toolstation for price

[fred]

I have 1" of old plaster over brick here and like to have a bit of a fix into the brick so 8x50s are perfect (unos being stubbier).

I still have stock of the original fischer universal UV8x50 that I got from Sfx at 3.85/100 which I thought was a bit steep at the time but

9quid a hundred for the super dupers is becoming a piss take.

I think these would be a reasonable compromise (the 4 tab design being more reliable IME than 2 tab 'tuning fork' splits in a crap substrate) but they're still a fiver/100:

> Best specialist fixings, Fischer.

I think we found the unos about the same time but I imagine you've used a few more :-).

[Apellation Controlee]

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[fred]

In article , Apellation Controlee writes

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but have seen a number of instances of wrecked plasterboard with one of them wiggling around in the middle of it ;-)

[Apellation Controlee]

I've found them very successful, even good enough to fix an electric towel rail to a plasterboard/stud wall.

Sorry about the unnecessary link shortening - just a habit, and a bit pointless in this case.

[The Other Mike]

a sense of humour

[fred]

To be fair, these were examples of overloading but they didn't half leave a mess when they went. With an overloaded plasterboard plug I'll sometimes manage to re-fix with the next size up (uno of course ;-).

No probs, it's sometime difficult to know which parts of a huge url can be snipped or messed with, I'm an experimenter.

[The Medway Handyman]

Frequently. Mainly for light fittings in PB ceilings.