Hopefully you are enjoying the Bank holiday weekend. I hope everyone has a great time 😉

Nail plugs! I never knew they existed. Thanks.

All the problems and answers straight to the point!! Thank you, very well done!

As usual, top notch advice from the Ultimate Handyman. Thanks for your no-nonsense approach and the very clear instructions.

Excellent video, thanks. Don't know how I missed it when it was first released. Learning points for me were the nail plugs, the opened saddle for several cables and drilling to open up the hole in the clip for the larger nail. All brilliant, thanks.

Love you videos, a continuous learning curve - thanks and keep em coming Nick.

Nail plugs are a new one on me as well. Filed away for future reference! Thanks Chez.

Thanks for the info/video Chez... Have a great week - weather is fab!

Thanks, installed some outdoor lights with super neat cable organisation thanks to your guidance.

Great tip on the Profix nails! Ordered!

Nicely explained yet again. You are a multi-skilled guy, UH. I've never seen these nail plugs - thanks for the heads-up!

Love the nail plug hint, will get some of those thanks a lot, great stuff.

I've come back again after using the Profix nail plugs. They grip better than I ever imagined in brick and crumbly or hard mortar - and that with drilling 5.5mm holes rather than the recommended 5.0mm. My aerial cables are SO neat now. Side note: I used plastic Roman nose cable entry plates to hide some terrible brick burst-out. The plates arrived with the backs hopelessly "unflat" so silicone wouldn't hold them flush to the wall. After immersing them in boiling water then holding them flat and spraying with cold water they worked a treat.

Never seen those nail plugs before - many thanks, I will certainly use them in the future! Cheers

Brilliant guide, thank you!

The nail plugs are new to me and i buy them tuesday immediatly. Thanks you for sharing and caring! Happy Easter sir!

Fantastic video. Thanks for sharing. Very helpful.

Thanks great video. Nail plugs are a revelation and something I will consider in next time. Thanks so much.

Great tips there, thanks. Must look at nail plugs next time, had too many frustrating cases of trying to knock masonry nails into perished mortar.

Excellent video - just what.i needed! 🔨👍🏻

Great video with lots of very practical tips. thanks for posting this out for us

Very useful tips here on something I’ve never managed to get 100% right. Happy Easter 👍🏻

Very useful video, the nail plugs are a great idea. Happy Easter!

Running it down the downpipe is a great idea. Thanks!

Not seen those nail plugs before, very nifty on rendered walls... Cheers for the great tip, I'll be getting a few of those for my Cat-5 network cables :)

Nail plugs! A godsend! Cleats - ditto. Have wasted all day trying to remedy poor aerial wiring; every masonry pin bent due to granite-hard mortar. Now I have a choice of solutions. THANK YOU!

Great tips as always! Nail plugs! Fantastic what a great idea. I have used cable tie plugs before. You drill a 6mm home smack the plug in which has a cable tie loop and then fix you cable over it with a cable tie.

Good tips for surface cabling. I always try to put cabling in external cavities where possible, especially security and cctv cabling.✌😎

just what i was looking for. Thanks

Nice advice there. I favour knock ins. You can secure multiple cables easily and add more at a later date if you wish.

Another great video, always wondered what was the best way to fix cables, now I know, something you can't learn from a book, the nail plugs look good...thanks

Very nice, and good reference for the future.

All your videos are so informative. Would be happy for you to do any jobs for me. You clearly take pride in your work!

Wow, I never knew you could get special plugs to nail clips into - I used to just remove the nails and put screws in and just use bog standard wall plugs. Also, I like your life hack with the SWA cleats - I doubt any sparkies do this but it's a neat little idea. Good video 👍

Great tip making a drip loop.

Another great vid. Thanks

Excellent. Thanks

Excellent timing this Chez.. Just had our roof redone..and now need to resecure the aierial cable..:) Bikini weather in Darwen today :)

Thanks Never heard of nail clips!

Thanks for sharing👍

Is there a brand or two of adhesive cable clips which you can recommend for dry wall inside the house? The dry wall has only been painted with white paint and I worry that the clips won’t stick.

I was just looking for this last night. Planning on running some cat 6 and I have rendered walls. This has been so helpful

You give great advice. I find a lot of what i need on the tube. A lot of it is from the US. I have a major thing that needs to be done. Power to my garage to make it a work shop

ordered nail plugs - we dont have them in Israel, never knew they even exist. i will try to use wood chips till they arrive. Great video, thank you!

Yes I did this job a few weeks ago fitting a camera and two smart colour changing LED lights on our back wall. Lost a few clips which will no doubt show up in my motoryclce tyre in the near future. I also fitted a hidden internal switch (well it's behind the curtains) which works well and nobody died (yet) so all is well. Happy Easter mate

Where can i get larger masonary nails to replace the short nail in clips i already have?

Thanks 👍

Thanks!

Amazing channel 👍

Very useful information thanks for that ultimate handyman happy bank holiday

When working up a ladder, how do you recommend managing bag/box of vlips and hammer? When i use trousers with bag pockets i find the clips are hard to get to. And never sure where to put hammer!.

nice one cheers dude

Thanks bro

great vid didn't know the nail plugs existed. what size/length of nail would you recommend for the nail plugs. Many thanks

Happy Easter.

What's the lengh of that masonry nails in millimeter, that you use with that nail wall plug? Could you say please? thank you

That accent adds educational value somehow!

I cut the end off an SDS chisel (from one of the Screwfix combo sets) and drilled a small divot into the end with a 6mm drill. Put your SDS drill into hammer only, and it will drive wall plugs in like butter. Also, if you put a short piece of 20mm HDPE around it to act as a sleeve, it makes a good earth rod driver.

I not sure what type clips to I need I have a 25meter cable 2.5mm 24amp I been told I need a 11mm but seem big I hear some say 8 or 9 so I confused its a 3183y 3 core flexible cable can you please advice many thanks

Thanks for the video - the clip plugs are a good idea - never used them before. What is your view on running normal twin and earth outside, say to an external light. I've seen somewhere that this should be avoided as the cable "ages" in the sunlight?

We used to use those nail plugs but noticed that they were often twice the price of an equivalent Tower wall plug. Nail plugs are around £2.60 per 100 and the Tower plugs are on average £1.20 per 100. We use the Tower plugs on all our cable jobs now and they work just fine.

I bought the nail plugs thank you. Where do I buy the cable cleats do you have a link for that?

how would you go about fixing to rendered or pebble dash wall? wall plugs and screws? would the same apply to running cables in conduit/pvc pipe?

i am going to install a new video doorbell. i will need to fix a very thin and lightweight wire to supply power from existing doorbell. i would rather like to use double sided adhesive tape for it. i think the adhesive may hold it on the wall probably for very long time as the cable is light. i know it sounds risky but i don't like the idea hammer the wall and make cracks on it. would you comment on such task? thank you. i love your chanel. what ever i search on google (not even youtube) your chanel is first to appear. thanks.

What is that rubber cable holder called and where do I get it

I'm the same about nail plugs,I'll have to invest in a box of them. Didn't know they existed👍👍👍👍👍. Some of us are working (treble time 😬😬). Enjoy the holidays everyone. Ps how's the ticker doing.

I posted a comment on here a while back about using 5mm uno plugs in a 4.5mm hole but another good tip is if you want to get even cheaper with the nail plugs you can split some offcuts of excess timber using a chisel or even just a knife (if you have any lying round) to a diameter slightly bigger than the pilot hole so they fit more snugly in the hole. The way I do it is cut them square as possible at one end and then round off the edges on the other end so it makes it easier to drive in with a hammer. It’s more of an old school method as a lot of tradesmen used to fix various things to walls in this fashion and then the nails would be driven straight into the wood and make it split half way through the grain so it has expansion.

one thing to add to this if you are installing it cables inside the property you now need to use fireproof clips if there is any chance of the cable collapsing prematurely. That applies to telecom data CCTV as well as mains

Hello m8 I’m having a full rewrite on a bungalow , had a few quotes just 2 questions, does wire in loft have to be clipped, and when wire channeled in wall does it have to have conduit on it for protection, most of the electricians have said they don’t need doing , but others insisted on doing it , I’m confused who’s right ???

Damn those nail plugs. I've always knocked in a cut off piece of hardwood dowel and a squirt of 'no more nails'.. It looks like I'll be heading off to eBay now! Thanks Chez.. 👍 Edit; that's that done. £4 for 100 pieces..

2.27 .. the drip loop isn't "important". It's an absolute must. Rain water clings like mad to cables and if it's fed straight into a wall then you may just as well use a hose to squirt 100s of litres of water per year into your cavity and all over your joists and floorboards.

Just been cutting the grass and the lawnmower has stopped working I’ve changed the fuse on it but nothing any suggestions it’s a flymo electric lawnmower

Cables clips/ cleats need fire rating now mate dont forget 18th edition requires all areas not just fire exits now. Keep up the good vids

No metal/pvc truckings for the wires?

What about a tiled side of a building, which I have?

P clips mate are good aswel bit pricier than normal clips though,

Most cable and sat TV installers go on a special course where they teach them to drill a cable hole from inside the house with an SDS drill and push it as hard as they can so the hole on the outside busts the brick face and is at least 10 times bigger than the drill bit.....nice tidy work as usual UH :)

Wireless! 😉👍

Damn,now you tell me nail plugs exist! Two months late😭😭😭😭😭😭👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😯😁😁😁😁😁

You could drill into the wall and use wooden dowels and tap the nail into the dowels, Just a cheaper idea.?...thanks for the video

I have found one can pull the nail from the clip and then drive a suitably gauaged screw through the hole. A hole can then be drilled and plugged and the clip screwed in.

Good tip on the ladder stopper but yours looked greater than a 1-4 ratio.

7:13 what is the arrow pointing to I need that

There has to be some real good cable clips with masonry nails rather than having to switch them. ive gone through so many and you get some concrete which will bend any nail. i dont really like the idea of wall plugging before fixing for a cable due to the time overhead on long runs

Nail plugs?? Must be a UK thing cause I can't find those on the Home Depot website.

the only thing you have to watch with internal cable clips is they have to be metal or fire resistant around internal door ways even when inside trunking

Using yellow 5mm rawlplug UNO plugs also has the same effect as using the plugs designed for nailable clips. I would recommend drilling maybe a 4.5mm hole so that the there is more plug for the masonry nail to bite.

i known someone who used to actually lay the cable in the brick joints and repoint over it ............. yh, maybe pass regs if its just a data cable but hell no for electric

Nail plugs? I guess that would be what here in Oz we call spaghetti. Cheers

Just what did you call that T&E cable? ..... ahh flat! - for some reason i heard ya say 'twa...' cable lol

Great, after I’ve just pegged 30 metres of cable around my garage and car port fir new security lights you come up with a solution to cable clips not always fixing.....ggrrrrrrr. 🤣

4:43 Once you go bla... Oh never mind...

Just checked, for a 100 pack of nail plugs, B&Q are cheaper than ebay, just goes to show.

0:41 that isn't twin & earth :)

And if your a cable guy in a rush you use as few of those as possible lol

Easier in Norway where most of the houses are tree houses

The cable cleats are upside down.

Them clips with masonary waste time

A question for British viewers, what kind of accent is this ?