Brown plugs on rewires

[BrianDB9]

A housing rewire specification says you have to use brown plugs and 5mm screws, would you comply ? would it make you think anything about the rest of the specification document ?

 

[telectrix]

you have to follow the spec. daft or not. dunno what 5mm screws will do. seem a bit short to me. i use 1&1/2" 8's

 

[ipf]

Depends what you're fixing with them, back boxes or kitchen cabinets.

 

[shagbite]

inch & half 8's with a red plug in general. depends on the structure though - I've been working on a building that's over 300 years old and I've had to bring out the three inch 10's

 

[telectrix]

inch & half 8's with a red plug in general. depends on the structure though - I've been working on a building that's over 300 years old and I've had to bring out the three inch 10's

what's up. run out of expanding foam?

 

[Adam W]

If left to my own devices I would normally use 1.5"x8s and red plugs as standard, but if that's what they want that's what you should use.

 

[shagbite]

haha. yeah, we have run out. used a couple of cans to fit some windows and half of it got on my clobber.

 

[Edd]

a brown plug and size 10-14 screw that fits it will snap any pattrace you try to fix!!!

Looks like another spec writern by someone who's never done a days work

 

[telectrix]

yep. snapped a few patresses even with 8's. must remember to turn the torque down on the impact driver.

 

[Silly Sausage]

haha. yeah, we have run out. used a couple of cans to fit some windows and half of it got on my clobber.

Me too at the weekend.
Don't use that Polycell crap though, sticky shyte everywhere!
The SX stuff seems best.