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I posted a link to that BRE test a few weeks back in another post. I posted it in response to a post by Westward saying that he thought it unlikely that plastic wall plugs would melt in a masonry wall. I was of the same opinion too until I read through the report. OK, it deals with cable supports specifically, but the same melting could possibly occur elsewhere.
I agree partly with SBO that a consumer unit is not going to fall off a wall in any hurry, and that in all probability for a CU to fall off the fire would have to be pretty bloody intense.
But, a lot of folk on here harp on about good workmanship, and when I posted a few weeks back that was why.
If I go back three years ago I would have never thought of installing metal fire clips like I do now. And I am starting to think the same way in relation to my use of plastic wall plugs. Good workmanship and practise evolves and changes..
I agree partly with SBO that a consumer unit is not going to fall off a wall in any hurry, and that in all probability for a CU to fall off the fire would have to be pretty bloody intense.
But, a lot of folk on here harp on about good workmanship, and when I posted a few weeks back that was why.
If I go back three years ago I would have never thought of installing metal fire clips like I do now. And I am starting to think the same way in relation to my use of plastic wall plugs. Good workmanship and practise evolves and changes..