Looking for advice of fixing into hollow bricks or fast wall bricks

[Jerryj]

Hi
I live in a house in Perth roughly 25 years old. Its double brick and the inside walls are made from a clay brick which has lots of holes in the brick which run the fyll length of the brick. I think they might have been called fastwall of hollow bricks. I am looking at renovating the kitchen and will need to fix to the walls in many locations. I am looking for a quick solution that can also hold some weight as I will have wall cabinets to hang amongst other. I have tried drilling these walls in the past and the drill always seems to slide to where the holes are and you can end up with a large hole. Putting in those butterfly spring loaded clips are an option dut would require a large hole in the cabinet and very time consuming. Any ideas please.

Regards Jerryj

[heavytrevy]

Tapcons will work well

[Jerryj]

Thanks for that, had a look on google they look good.
Cheers Jerry

[Boolligan]

Hi Jerry,

are you sure they are standard bricks...... say with 3 holes through them that act like the old frog and fill up with mortar juring construction ???? or are they concrete/besser blocks.... heaps more hollow space and larger in size. Hollow blocks are a real problem and concrete screws will only work if you dont hit the voids ... ie hit motar join or edges of block....... maybe investigate chem set type products

Cheers

[Wavenut]

Hi
I live in a house in Perth roughly 25 years old. Its double brick and the inside walls are made from a clay brick which has lots of holes in the brick which run the fyll length of the brick. I think they might have been called fastwall of hollow bricks. I am looking at renovating the kitchen and will need to fix to the walls in many locations. I am looking for a quick solution that can also hold some weight as I will have wall cabinets to hang amongst other. I have tried drilling these walls in the past and the drill always seems to slide to where the holes are and you can end up with a large hole. Putting in those butterfly spring loaded clips are an option dut would require a large hole in the cabinet and very time consuming. Any ideas please.

Regards Jerryj

Hi Jerry,

Best solution if applicable would be to timber and plaster a stud wall onto the existing wall, that way you can insulate it, run all of the electrical wiring and plumbing in accord AS and most importantly for your purpose - mount all of the cabinets etc. Will also give you a flush wall for splashbacks or tiles etc. Takes a couple of hours to cut and nail one in place, sheet up and secure. Good tradie worth their salt would have it done in a half day.

[sundancewfs]

The latest Fine Homebuilding Magazine had a fastener reviewed exactly for this purpose (hollow brick/block walls) it was a chemset type fastener.

[Jerryj]

Thanks Everybody

Cheers Jerryj

[Bloss]

Plenty of info here: Ramset Australia - Products (http://www.ramset.com.au/Document/Section/99/Products) you can use mechanical as well as chemical anchors . . .