If that's what it is, how do you thnk they put it in (out of curiosity)?I've just got a tiny screen just now, but that looks like the barbed end of a hollow wall fixing - which is great for plasterboard and such like but not ideal for where it is used there!
If I'm right there would be a 5mm screw sticking in the metal fixing, and as the device enters the brickwork it does expand when the screw is tightened.
No worries though, just drill 'em out.
John
I think it's 1" thick (or perhaps very very slightly more).is the timber that we see pretty thin?
John
I must be getting old, John. Never thought I'd see the words "traditional" and "plastic" used in conjunction that way!Traditional plastic plugs are the way forward here...
So do I - we used to call them star drills as they had 4 flutes at the end, from memory. You could get a sort of spring drive holder which turned the drill bit through 1/4 turn or so every time it was struck (instead of having to do it manually). Funny thing, though, was that it was always the foremen who owned these mechanical wonders whilst it was us poor "grunts" who actually had to do the work with the simple sleeve holders. Still, when it was blockwork, soft brick or soft stone it was still less tiring to bang away at a star drill than it was to cleave, fix and cut back multiple timber wedges. We don't know how lucky we are these daysHell, I remember using the original Rawldrill......hexagonal steel with a replaceable splines bit?
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