Plastic wall plug alternatives

ietmgreen:

I recently used DeWalt wall dogs to secure fire-rated black P clips  made by SWA.   https://www.swaonline.co.uk/fire-safety-product-range/firefly-cleats

The combination worked well for fixing 4mm SWA into breeze block  crossing over a garage door entrance about 5 metres wide.

Regards,

Mike.

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ietmgreen:

I recently used DeWalt wall dogs to secure fire-rated black P clips  made by SWA.   https://www.swaonline.co.uk/fire-safety-product-range/firefly-cleats

The combination worked well for fixing 4mm SWA into breeze block  crossing over a garage door entrance about 5 metres wide.

Regards,

Mike.

The cable will only need a centre fixing and one at each end to prevent "premature collapse" so a steel wire wrapped around the S.W.A. and secured to a screw or cup hook at those three points will do the job. 


Z.

 

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The cable will only need a centre fixing and one at each end to prevent "premature collapse" so a steel wire wrapped around the S.W.A. and secured to a screw or cup hook at those three points will do the job. 


Z.

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wallywombat:

 

Fitzy71:

I’ve never come across things falling off walls due to the rawlplugs melting in a fire and I’ve been many fires.

 

So were you a firefigher or an arsonist in a former life??? :-)

 

Fitzy71:

London Firefighter.....


And we would've been well out of the building by the time the plaster/walls started to collapse.

 

Jaymack:

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ietmgreen:

I recently used DeWalt wall dogs to secure fire-rated black P clips  made by SWA.   https://www.swaonline.co.uk/fire-safety-product-range/firefly-cleats

The combination worked well for fixing 4mm SWA into breeze block  crossing over a garage door entrance about 5 metres wide.

Regards,

Mike.

The cable will only need a centre fixing and one at each end to prevent "premature collapse" so a steel wire wrapped around the S.W.A. and secured to a screw or cup hook at those three points will do the job. 


Z.

 

Heath Robinson is your man ?


Jaymack

 

wallywombat:

 

Fitzy71:

London Firefighter.....


And we would've been well out of the building by the time the plaster/walls started to collapse.

 

Yeah but the point is to stop cables faliing before the plaster/walls start to collapse.

As I said, I've never seen or heard of  plastic rawlplugs melting and therefore letting cables start falling, especially before the plaster starts to fail, bricks have to get extremely hot (takes a long time to do so) before their structure starts to fail, 9 times out of 10, civilians and firefighters are well out of the way if/when this happens.  Unlike what they show you in the movies and on tv, wall collapses are quite rare.