Included with my radiator is a Fischer Radiator Fixing Set. How do I fit these? Do I need to use a socket and wrench? Why could they not just included normal screws?
How to attach radiator fixings to the wall?
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This is a plasplug and screw set, intended for use in brick, block or concrete walls. You tighten them with a spanner, or socket if you have one. The heads are harder to damage than cross or slotted heads, and easier to do up tightly. They will be very strong if correctly fitted.
Many cordless screwdrivers or combi drills come packaged with suitable sockets.
If you want, you can throw them away and use screws and plugs of your own choice.
Many cordless screwdrivers or combi drills come packaged with suitable sockets.
If you want, you can throw them away and use screws and plugs of your own choice.
The work like normal fixing but grip a bit harder to hold the weight better.
Use a spanner or socket but don't overdo it.
If you see the plaster being pulled in you're done, don't keep tightening.
Use a spanner or socket but don't overdo it.
If you see the plaster being pulled in you're done, don't keep tightening.
Not suitable for plasterboard stud walls though
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Of course
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dontbelieveawordofit
never use them. cause more damage than they’re worth normally.
Because what is included makes the fixing more sturdy if wall is brick or block. No good with lath and plaster or plasterboard
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dontbelieveawordofit
normal screw heads aren’t generally large enough to grip the slotted part of the bracket. if you use screws use the holes in the brackets not the slots.
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dontbelieveawordofit
typical bodge solution from someone whos never fitted a radiator. and unsufficient pull on the bracket. use the holes in the brackets.
Well why are there slides and fixed holes on a rad bracket then Einstein ? and yes I have fitted many more radiators than you
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dontbelieveawordofit
the slots are for numptys like you who cant get them straight . and for people who choose to use the outlandishly big plugs and hex bolts supplied , which the op didn’t seem too fussed on ,that have enough grip only in block and brick to stop the bracket sliding down the wall .ive fitted more than you??? grow up . don’t be a prat it’s not nice.
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unconscious irony.
How do the slots get the rads straight ? and if they are not needed why does every Rad manufacturer supply brackets with slots as well as holes ? I know why just asking if you do ?
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dontbelieveawordofit
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/straight
just in case you weren’t sure what straight means.
I didn’t say the slots weren’t needed. did I?
I said I don’t or rarely use them.
and yes it’s pretty blatantly obvious to me why there’s slots and holes. I suppose your a ‘plumber’ who went to plumbing school and knows everything there is to know about plumbing so nobody else who isn’t a plumber or hasn’t been to plumbing school and spends all their time exclusively chasing money around in their self important plumbers head and in their little plumbing van that says i’m god the plumber on it isn’t allowed to mention or think or do anything remotely connected to plumbing.
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