Stramit board

[Scott_D]

Any suggestions on a good fixing method?
I am fitting a towel rail and the walls are stramit board (straw) with plaster board over

 

[Stoney Ground]

Any suggestions on a good fixing method?
I am fitting a towel rail and the walls are stramit board (straw) with plaster board over

Drill right through the wall to the other room, 10mm threaded stud with 50mm washers either side.

My TV bracket fell off the wall when I thought I'd used good fixings.

If you need to cheer yourself up, get a sparky to cut a double patress box in for you.

 

[stani]

Daft as it sounds but stoneys idea is probably the best option, I went to a hot water burst sometime early 70s when this rubbish was first used, the floors were unsealed chipboard, myself and another plumber couldn't understand why we felt like we were on a sponge floor until we fell through into the lounge then what felt like bailed straw fell on us, absolutely garbage.

 

[Last Plumber]

Went to fit a boiler once and found that garbage had been used.

One of those jobs where you think that if crying would help, you'd do it but it won't so you need to get on with it.

I ended up making an angle iron bracket that sat across two joists above ( loft floor joists), then two pieces of flat steel hanging down that I drilled and tapped with a cross piece between for the boiler hanging bracket to bolt onto.

When they knock that bungalow down, that bracket will be their main problem lol !

 

[tamz]

Hung about 600 rads on it in the 70's including about 90 700 x 36K2's using M5 wall anchors. As far as i know (and the scheme was local and i have been in many since) none ever fell off and that was without plasterboard.

 

[Chalked]

Somtimes screwing direct with a 12 gauge screw works.

But I do mean sometimes!

 

[NickH]

They used to use it for flat roof decks.
Pukka once you get a leak.

 

[Scott_D]

Do you mean the anchors you push in and expand with the gun/tool?

 

[townfanjon]

My gaff's internal walls are stramit , nightmare stuff. i agree with stoney in post 2 . That's exactly what I did to mount the kitchen rad, 5" double !!! Never moved since.