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Banding as fire clip?

Jimi

Do you think steel banding like this is adequate as a fire clip? Screwed and plugged to masonry or screwed to timber. 

 Cheers ;)

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    Just a couple of obvious caveats - check that the banding/fixing is suitable for the weight of the cable - unlikely not to be but if you had a huge SWA with a fair distance between fixings it might be worth a double check. Also consider any abrasion from the sharpish edges of the banding - if the cable is subject to movement (perhaps including thermal on a long straight run) or the cables aren't straight/perpendicular to the band then some sort of padding might be in order.

    My thinking on plastic rawl plugs is to consider if the screw would fall out of the hole if the plug wasn't there … hung underneath a ceiling it certainly would, but a long screw into a horizontal hole in a wall would much more likely stay put unless there was any tendency to pull away from the wall.

       - Andy.

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    Just a couple of obvious caveats - check that the banding/fixing is suitable for the weight of the cable - unlikely not to be but if you had a huge SWA with a fair distance between fixings it might be worth a double check. Also consider any abrasion from the sharpish edges of the banding - if the cable is subject to movement (perhaps including thermal on a long straight run) or the cables aren't straight/perpendicular to the band then some sort of padding might be in order.

    My thinking on plastic rawl plugs is to consider if the screw would fall out of the hole if the plug wasn't there … hung underneath a ceiling it certainly would, but a long screw into a horizontal hole in a wall would much more likely stay put unless there was any tendency to pull away from the wall.

       - Andy.

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