fixing into hollow brick wall

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Hi. What's the best way to make fixings into hollow bricks (the ones like air bricks)? I have a couple of wall brackets to put up to hold guitars - so not a huge weight but not something I would like to see fail. Some people suggest drilling then filling the hole with gripfill, putting in a wall plug, waiting for it to dry, then screwing in like normal. Does that work? Or is there a better method?
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Use the correct screw in plugs for the blocks and it will be fine.You need the spiral plugs with wings, prevent the plug rotating, other plugs just pull out.
 
Thanks. I am not sure what you mean by spiral plugs. The only spiral things I can seem to find in the likes of Screwfix are fixings for plasterboard.
 
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They certainly look like airbricks - or at least the ones I saw coming out of next door when some internal walls were being taken down looked like them. Whether that's what they actually are, I don't know. An electrician complained about them when fitting some sockets elsewhere on the same wall (but to be fair to the bricks, he was useless). I think he referred to them as honeycomb bricks.
 

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