Gun cabinet fixings

[hairycow]

Just wondering as to what fixings people are using to secure their gun cabinets to a breeze lock wall, I have used a Hilti plug and bolt headed fixings in the past but just wondering if anyone has a better option.
Cheers

 

[Will the chippy]

Concrete screws, thunderbolts, coach bolt and plug, Rawl bolt, DeWalt drop in anchors, resin and studding. They all work. It's just a case of what tools you've got to hand.
Is it breeze block, concrete block, thermalite block, lightweight concrete block?
It's the thermalite blocks that are a real pain to fasten too.

 

[peter a]

Resin anchors work well in thermalite blocks. I think it was Hilti anchors that had a glass phial with resin that you put in the drilled hole and then knocked your threaded rod into that.

 

[Tim.243]

Just wondering as to what fixings people are using to secure their gun cabinets to a breeze lock wall, I have used a Hilti plug and bolt headed fixings in the past but just wondering if anyone has a better option.
Cheers

I would and do use Chem fix, there is no reason you can't add extra holes to the back of your unit as a tube of c-Fix goes a long way. Dust is the down fall I have a Hilti kit and a "puffer" so blows the dust out.
A length of M12 studding washers and nuts.
Masonry drills cut big so 13/14mm the trick is to load some C-fix on your thread 1/3 fill the hole and twist the studding in like you would wind a bolt in to a thread that way you should not get any voids.
DON'T do it in this heat FFS lol

 

[cjm1066]

Got some resin anchors if you are interested.

 

[Tazz]

Concrete screws, thunderbolts, coach bolt and plug, Rawl bolt, DeWalt drop in anchors, resin and studding. They all work. It's just a case of what tools you've got to hand.
Is it breeze block, concrete block, thermalite block, lightweight concrete block?
It's the thermalite blocks that are a real pain to fasten too.

This is getting more technical by the minute, I think for most on here beyond rawplugs and rawbolts it’s all witchcraft

 

[hairycow]

Hmm definitely a wide choice, might stick with some rawl plugs and bolt headed screws as don’t really want anything poking out the wall when I remove it, might have to call into hilti unless there is a better rawl plug.
Have chemi bond as I’m fitting rise and fall gutter brackets with it but just don’t want threaded bar poking in the cabinet and out the wall every time I decorate.

 

[Len the dog]

Chemical anchors really couldn’t be any simpler, drill a hole, puff out the dust, squirt in the self mixing resin, shove in some threaded rod and offer up the cabinet. Wait the proscribed time for the resin to set, bung on a washer, then a nut, tighten it, sit down with a cuppa.

 

[Jh1986]

Both my cabinets are done with chemical and threaded bolts. As above, it's just so easy. They dry hard pretty quick and by the next day they're immovable and you can tighten up the bolts.

 

[hairycow]

I’m going to give it a go tomorrow
Cheers

 

[sy247]

Chemical fixing

 

[bramble basher]

Mine weighs just over a ton so it just sits there
That be said Hilti have some fantastic fixing kit not cheap but very good
Bb

 

[Tom Buidhe]

Faced the same challenge when we moved to a house that had dry lined, block walls.

Drilled a 22mm hole through the plaster board. 12mm hole into the block.
Dusted out the holes.
Inserted 22mm tube cut to sit dead flush with decorated surface of plasterboard.
Good dosing of this stuff

Rawlplug R-KEM II Styrene-Free Polyester Resin 300ml - Screwfix

Then inserted the required lengths of all thread into the resin filled holes.

Easyfix BZP Steel Threaded Rods M10 x 300mm 5 Pack - Screwfix

Left it a few hours to properly go off then mounted cabinet snugging it up against the tube inserts between plasterboard surface and block.

FLO was happily swinging on it when he came to inspect at renewal.

 

[Arch]

I used M8 threaded rod about 10” and has an Allen type head that protrudes out of the wall,
As above a washer and then 2 bolts on the top,

Chemical resin into the dust free hole, got both bolts, washers, nuts and the resin from BAPP for bolts, the bloke said they sold loads for gun cabinet fixings.

 

[Greenmist]

Concrete screws or thunder bolts as they're sometimes called, make like so much easier

 

[Arch]

I wouldn’t be happy relying on those biting into breeze block,

 

[Will the chippy]

Breeze block there fine. Thermalite blocks you'd struggle with.

 

[Antikka]

Recently discovered Rigifix for a friend's new house...

Rigifix Fixings - Drywall Fixings - Plasterboard Fixings

www.orbitalfasteners.co.uk

Quite good.

 

[royalewithcheese]

Faced the same challenge when we moved to a house that had dry lined, block walls.

Drilled a 22mm hole through the plaster board. 12mm hole into the block.
Dusted out the holes.
Inserted 22mm tube cut to sit dead flush with decorated surface of plasterboard.
Good dosing of this stuff

Rawlplug R-KEM II Styrene-Free Polyester Resin 300ml - Screwfix

Then inserted the required lengths of all thread into the resin filled holes.

Easyfix BZP Steel Threaded Rods M10 x 300mm 5 Pack - Screwfix

Left it a few hours to properly go off then mounted cabinet snugging it up against the tube inserts between plasterboard surface and block.

FLO was happily swinging on it when he came to inspect at renewal.

This is the way for securing to breezeblock or thermal block

 

[JDS1]

Going into breezeblock - concrete fixings with washers, just keep the drill hole tight, say 6mm