Fittings into breeze block

Rifleburger

Rifleburger

Rifleburger

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Hi, I'm living in a 33 year old house with a breeze block inner skin and preparing to wall up with 9mm porcelain tiles. The wall is 18mm out-of-true, partly due to the fact that a whole area is missing plaster. If I was to batten the wall; what would be the best fixings into breeze block. I need to find out soon because my wife has threatened me with divorce if it's not done soon-and I don't want to get divorced.
 
I tend to just use decent plugs into blocks (e.g. Fischer DuoPower) but size down one drill bit size and tap the plug in with a hammer, as crumbling blocks sometimes widen the intended diameter of the hole.
 
Its ash deposit breeze block. The type you can drill into without hammer action. How on earth were they ever certified as being useful-like the beams in our secondary schools. Maybe secondary children weren't liked.
 
Just use normal plugs, but fischer duo as someone already said are good for nearly anything. Use a smaller drillbit as the holes tend to widen in those blocks.
 
In the meantime I've contacted Fischer's technical and although they haven't sent material yet, they seem to suggest sxrl 8mm giving a 25-35kg weight function, with four fixings per square metre more than adequate for my 22 kilo tiles of 4' x 2'. Yes, the holes widening in those blocks fills you with supreme confidence.
 
Yes, I thought about that, but then when Fischer asked me to drill the block and it just dribbled away in dust I was not exactly heartened, and the technician simply said "ahhh."
 
Sorry? With concrete screws you don't use plugs, you just go straight through the batten (might want to pilot the batten to stop it splitting though) and into the block without a pilot hole.

Also if you don't care about ever taking them back off the wall you can just smash some big woodscrews straight into the blocks without plugs, but you'll struggle to get them out again if you need to.
 
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The Timco screws look good, but I have the over abiding image of dust on the floor of my bathroom; and I feel that the plastic coating of those sxrl's will keep the sharp cutting lines of the screw from the soft cherry cake interior of the block, so that the metal screw will go about its job of holding everything up. I don't only have to battle with my wife, but also with walls that seem to be crumbling about my ears.
 
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Rifleburger said:
The Timco screws look good, but I have the over abiding image of dust on the floor of my bathroom; and I feel that the plastic coating of those sxrl's will keep the sharp cutting lines of the screw from the soft cherry cake interior of the block, so that the metal screw will go about its job of holding everything up. I don't only have to battle with my wife, but also with walls that seem to be crumbling about my ears.
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Stop trolling us.
 
Reuben klang said:
Shouldn’t the mm be the same size.
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My bad...I was thinking of the last post I was reading

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