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Gavster wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 3:51 pm This is driving me completely mental, any suggestions appreciated.

I made the fatal mistake of using the wall anchors supplied with a telescopic light bracket. I usually only use my own fittings but these looked okay so I ploughed on with them. Unfortunately they're completely shite and made from toffee.

They fixings are comprised of a metal sleeve and a bolt down the middle, with a flared tip (now deep in the wall). You hammer the whole thing into the wall, and then as you tighten a nut down onto the end of the bolt, it's supposed to flare the sleeve into the wall. Except it's not.



The hole in the wall was sized perfectly; the sleeves were an interference fit, and I really had to batter them into the wall. Despite that, as I've tightened the bracket, none of the bolts were going up tight. They're all just slowly pulling the bolt (not the sleeve) out the wall. Fucking useless toffee metal shite.

Now I can't use these steaming piile of horse shite fixings, but I am also completely stumped how to remove them from the wall. I've tried attaching a nut to the end and levering out, however that's not worked. I've reached the shank on one of them so can't wind it out any further with a nut.

I've checked YouTube and it seems to be either lever them out, or smack them a hammer and pull them out. Absolutey BS.




I'd be finished having a cup of tea now if I'd listened to myself and gone straight to my lovely selection box of Fischer wall fixings

IanF wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 5:14 pm Anyone ever plastered a room.. it’s something that fills me with dread and I normally try anything once (sometimes before having to pay someone to fix a now bigger issue)

IanF wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 5:14 pm Anyone ever plastered a room.. it’s something that fills me with dread and I normally try anything once (sometimes before having to pay someone to fix a now bigger issue)

IanF wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 5:14 pm Anyone ever plastered a room.. it’s something that fills me with dread and I normally try anything once (sometimes before having to pay someone to fix a now bigger issue)

Gavster wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 3:51 pm This is driving me completely mental, any suggestions appreciated.

I made the fatal mistake of using the wall anchors supplied with a telescopic light bracket. I usually only use my own fittings but these looked okay so I ploughed on with them. Unfortunately they're completely shite and made from toffee.

They fixings are comprised of a metal sleeve and a bolt down the middle, with a flared tip (now deep in the wall). You hammer the whole thing into the wall, and then as you tighten a nut down onto the end of the bolt, it's supposed to flare the sleeve into the wall. Except it's not.



The hole in the wall was sized perfectly; the sleeves were an interference fit, and I really had to batter them into the wall. Despite that, as I've tightened the bracket, none of the bolts were going up tight. They're all just slowly pulling the bolt (not the sleeve) out the wall. Fucking useless toffee metal shite.

Now I can't use these steaming piile of horse shite fixings, but I am also completely stumped how to remove them from the wall. I've tried attaching a nut to the end and levering out, however that's not worked. I've reached the shank on one of them so can't wind it out any further with a nut.

I've checked YouTube and it seems to be either lever them out, or smack them a hammer and pull them out. Absolutey BS.




I'd be finished having a cup of tea now if I'd listened to myself and gone straight to my lovely selection box of Fischer wall fixings

IanF wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 5:14 pm Anyone ever plastered a room.. it’s something that fills me with dread and I normally try anything once (sometimes before having to pay someone to fix a now bigger issue)

duncs500 wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:47 pm

Gavster wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 3:51 pm This is driving me completely mental, any suggestions appreciated.

I made the fatal mistake of using the wall anchors supplied with a telescopic light bracket. I usually only use my own fittings but these looked okay so I ploughed on with them. Unfortunately they're completely shite and made from toffee.

They fixings are comprised of a metal sleeve and a bolt down the middle, with a flared tip (now deep in the wall). You hammer the whole thing into the wall, and then as you tighten a nut down onto the end of the bolt, it's supposed to flare the sleeve into the wall. Except it's not.



The hole in the wall was sized perfectly; the sleeves were an interference fit, and I really had to batter them into the wall. Despite that, as I've tightened the bracket, none of the bolts were going up tight. They're all just slowly pulling the bolt (not the sleeve) out the wall. Fucking useless toffee metal shite.

Now I can't use these steaming piile of horse shite fixings, but I am also completely stumped how to remove them from the wall. I've tried attaching a nut to the end and levering out, however that's not worked. I've reached the shank on one of them so can't wind it out any further with a nut.

I've checked YouTube and it seems to be either lever them out, or smack them a hammer and pull them out. Absolutey BS.




I'd be finished having a cup of tea now if I'd listened to myself and gone straight to my lovely selection box of Fischer wall fixings

I had some very similar fixings for a bike bracket I've put in the garage, I read everyone bitching about the fixings in the review as I think the recommended hole (10mm IIRC) was too big and so they would just spin in the hole rather than allow you to tighten the nut. I therefore started with the next size down hole, but I needed to twat the fixing so much that I knackered the end of the thread and had to use my Dremel to cut the end off to release the nut. On the other ones I found a way of starting with the small hole but reaming it out slightly so that they hammered in just enough to bite. They are very hole size sensitive.

The other thing I note is that the sheath needs to push against the washer, not sure whether that's a good fixing type if you are not directly into brick, but I suppose if the length of the rod and the sheath are correct it might work.

They can be a decent type of fixing if you get them right. I've used them in a few things recently and managed never to have one that didn't bite.

Gavster wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 3:51 pm This is driving me completely mental, any suggestions appreciated.

I made the fatal mistake of using the wall anchors supplied with a telescopic light bracket. I usually only use my own fittings but these looked okay so I ploughed on with them. Unfortunately they're completely shite and made from toffee.

Gavster wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:01 pm
I'm convinced it's a fairly easy skill to learn with a bit of practice. However, it's only worth learning if you will have opportunities to practice and improve, e.g. renovating a house and working through each room. If you have one wall/room that needs plaster then I don't think it's worth the hassle of screwing it up.

Carlos wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2024 12:01 am

Gavster wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:01 pm
I'm convinced it's a fairly easy skill to learn with a bit of practice. However, it's only worth learning if you will have opportunities to practice and improve, e.g. renovating a house and working through each room. If you have one wall/room that needs plaster then I don't think it's worth the hassle of screwing it up.

A bit of content there for you. Can you patch that up in less than half day to a professional standard ?

I've tried but ended up sanding and filling and so on to get a decent finish. Even then my experience is a pro would knock a better finish out first time.

Explosive Newt wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2024 1:21 pm We have always had middling to poor water pressure and flow. Shower on the 2nd floor was ok but not powerful, hosepipes useful for watering but not washing, occasional low water pressure warning lights on appliances.

Apparently the regs have changed recently so you can have a pump fitted to your inflow to increase your water pressure (and, presumably, flow). The plumber bodged one in last week and it's transformative. It's like having a power shower and all the old issues with hoses and appliances are gone. Would recommend.

Gavster wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:54 pm Being told to expect a 6 to 7 month wait for a hearing now. At least this means we’re almost certainly going to get an order at the next hearing, barring any freak occurrence