Simple and basic but everyday and annoying.

[dontknowitall]

I use ...

Red plugs with 5mm drill bit and 4.0x40mm to 4.0x50mm screws.
Brown plug with 6mm drill bit wiggled a bit to make sort of 7mm hole using 5.0x60mm to 5.0x70mm screws.
For cavity walls I use those stubby aluminium things that screw in or Fischer 5 x 37 butterfly bolts.

I reckon on the above working really well about 95% of the time. Anything else (either in the packaging or handed over by the customer goes in the bin or is returned to the customer).

 

[md68]

A good tip to get the plug to bite.

Ram a few matches down the side of the plug & screw up. Always worked for me.

 

[ecowarm]

gee, i think i am just old enough to remember yankies and a hammer and one of those bits to make holes for raw-plugs that took around an hour each to chop.

70s memories.................site work ...... hanging rads with one of those rawl plug tools and a yankee. We got a battery drill from unifix free with 9 million screws and plugs and I think you could drill about 3 holes with it?

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

if a red plug is loose smash a brown one in with a number 10 screw however if its thermal****re your boned but have used new thermalshiiite fixings not bad tbh but follow instructions