Hiding cabling and attaching to brick

[Robbie1980uk]

Hi all!

I have a few telephone cables tacked onto my hall wall. We have the plasterer coming on thurs to do the full hall. So I have started putting channels in to hide the cables. The problem is I can't attach the cables to the wall as its now on brick. How would I do this? Staples done work. Nails (on cable tidys) don't work. All cos it's on brick now.

Any ideas?

 

[steptoe]

try nailing at the mortar joints

 

[ProDave]

Stick them with dabs of quick drying gripfill adhesive.

 

[steptoe]

^ or that,

they are only telephone cables after all

 

[NozSpark]

I had some great cable ties once that have a sort of rawl plug and pin attached, drill a hole, push the plug bit in then whack the pin with a hammer.... Cable tie fixed to wall!

 

[Robbie1980uk]

I had some great cable ties once that have a sort of rawl plug and pin attached, drill a hole, push the plug bit in then whack the pin with a hammer.... Cable tie fixed to wall!

Where did u get them?

 

[Robbie1980uk]

Stick them with dabs of quick drying gripfill adhesive.

Might try that, how long does it take to set?

 

[steptoe]

I had some great cable ties once that have a sort of rawl plug and pin attached, drill a hole, push the plug bit in then whack the pin with a hammer.... Cable tie fixed to wall!

FISCHER

 

[NozSpark]

Where did u get them?

IIRC I got them from CEF,,, but if you search for cable tie plugs on eBay then you'll find something that will do the same job

 

[OnOff]

How about going and buying a cheap hot glue gun and a few sticks! The alarm fitter's favourite! Should work if the chase is fairly dust free.

Toolstation > Hand Tools > Carpenters Tools > Hot Melt Glue Gun

 

[Andy™]

a wood dowel cut in half fits nicely into a shallow 5.5mm hole if the cement it too hard / soft to get a nail into

 

[OnOff]

Hi all!I have a few telephone cables tacked onto my hall wall. We have the plasterer coming on thurs to do the full hall. So I have started putting channels in to hide the cables. The problem is I can't attach the cables to the wall as its now on brick. How would I do this? Staples done work. Nails (on cable tidys) don't work. All cos it's on brick now.

Any ideas?

Just a pointer, a buried cable is a buried cable. Presuming you're a diy'er? We have prescribed "zones" that in effect mean you shouldn't drill the band of wall horizontally or vertically from any switch or socket. I know phones aren't at mains voltages but hopefully you can see where I'm coming from. When these phone cables are all plastered in what's to stop someone banging a nail in, putting a shelf bracket up etc?

 

[Apache]

I had some great cable ties once that have a sort of rawl plug and pin attached, drill a hole, push the plug bit in then whack the pin with a hammer.... Cable tie fixed to wall!

These things?

Masonry Mount Black 9mm Pack of 100 | Screwfix.com

They have their uses!

 

[NozSpark]

No,, the plug is attached to the tie with a pin attached to the other side which spreads the plug hen it's whaked in with a hammer.

 

[steptoe]

Im sure Ive used some, and Im fairly certain they were 'fischer' brand, check spelling. (?)

 

[andy_spark]

fischer is the right spelling

Also available at TLC

Cable Tie Base - Black

And these are also extremely useful

Cable Tie Plugs - Black

 

[batty]

Can't you just nail some capping over it.

 

[Badger]

if im doing telephone.data,etc i usually cap all cables tbh i dont tend to try nailing direct i drill 5.5 hole red raw plug roofing clout nail in red raw plug and happy days job done!

 

[steptoe]

or throw a bit of bonding in, wait til it starts to go off then push the cables into it.!

 

[a12jpm]

http://www.screwfix.com/p/clip-fix-plus-single-clamp-es18-10-25mm-pack-of-100/93339?_requestid=1656458

I've used these before. Bit pricey but great time saver. Knock in fixers.