Wall starting from steel uprights

[Zebsport]

Hi.

A friend has asked me to lay some blocks for a small barn on his farm. The building uses vertical steels (rsj's) to support the roof. The blocks in theory aren't structually relevant to the building, more to enclose the sides and keep the elements of the cows!!
The back and front walls are easy as the blocks can be slotted into the recess in the rsj's. On the sides its a bit more tricky. I really don't want to drill the rsj's to fit a conventional wall starter kit, i've tried welding but the steels require so much heat to get penetration that it just burns straight through the tie.
So any ideas? any super thick wall starter kits that will take welding?not bother with them?

Cheers zeb.

 

[mater]

go and hire a hilti gun and fire some fish tail ties into the steel

 

[Zebsport]

are they expensive to hire? the steel is 8mm thick would this be a problem?

 

[mater]

not sure on prices but will fire through that no problem

 

[Deluks]

You can easily drill 8mm with a cordless and good quality bit. Fix wall starter with self tappers in a small pilot hole. Using a starter with sliding ties will minimise cracking.

 

[^woody^]

Yes, a cartridge gun is the answer to fixing into these columns

However, I'm not sure if you can just go and hire them nowadays, As you may need a valid training certificate? I did hear that it was something similar for actually buying the nails/cartridges, but not sure about that either.

We used to use red cartridges and 25mm nails on the Hilti guns. No probelm, no fuss, no time wasted. Cover your ears though