How to secure this type of trunking?

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Hi. I was just wondering what is the best way to secure this type of trunking. If you call it trunking? (see attached photo). Nails, screw, some type of clip??

It is covering some t/e and when its secured it will be cemented/plastered over.

I thought maybe nails would be a bit difficult to hit in inside the channel I have chased out. A nd I thought that drilling holes and using rawl plugs and screws would be overkill!

Thanks.

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Fixing will depend on what you are fixing to!
Per the above, if its softish material like thermalite then large head clout nails. If its harder then use the hardened nails that RF has linked you to.

If the backround is very hard then I use 5mm masonry drill with yellow wallplugs and hammer clout nails into the wallplug.
 
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Thanks all.

They are some sort of concrete block. They seemed quite soft as far as masonry goes when I had to chisel into them for the 25mm back box.
 
If the backround is very hard then I use 5mm masonry drill with yellow wallplugs and hammer clout nails into the wallplug.

Aye, thats similar to my last resort, but 5.5mm drill and red plug (cos thats what I normally have to hand) with clout nail knocked into it

Before I resort to that, I'll normally try to fix the capping with cable clips... perhaps I'm just rough :LOL:
 
The capping in the picture is the wrong way round, sides should be flush with the wall and the indent covers the cable(s).

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Do any of you replying/advising know for sure what the regulations are in the OPs country?
 
Do any of you replying/advising know for sure what the regulations are in the OPs country?

They don't have regulations out there judging by some of the photo's i've seen of installations! :LOL: However, (i'm going to stick my neck out here) capping is capping and we all fix it in a similar way. Can't imagine there is an actual regulation in relation to how it is fixed other then securely.
 
That's true - I'm just conscious that other things might be missed - e.g. if a similar Q was asked by someone in the UK on a Bangladeshi forum, with a photo showing a diagonal cable route - if that was OK there and respondents didn't know it wasn't here then good advice would not be given...
 
I am in the UK? I dont understand?

The capping in the picture is the wrong way round, sides should be flush with the wall and the indent covers the cable(s).

The capping is the right way around? Re-check the original photo. The sides are not flush to the wall as I have not fixed it to the wall yet. Hence the original post!
 
Ah. Now I see. My country was Bangladesh on my profile. Thats where I was born. Parents were working out there! In the UK now. Sunny Wales.
 
Glad you cleared that up Harris.

There are some folk on here who thing its clever to say they live on Easter Island and then ask about UK regs.

I usually reply with derisive remarks like

"blimey I didn't know you even had electricity out there"

and then become instantly unhelpful - maybe even get their post moved to Electrics Outside of the UK

but thats just my vindictive streak.

Are you Ok wrt the replies you've had?
 

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