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I need a good screw

  • 27-03-2017 10:36pm
    #1
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,861 ✭✭✭


    I don't do a huge amount of DIY and today I finished a box of screws that I must have bought when I got my first house nearly 20 years ago. They were 40mm Zinc plated countersunk jobbies and I used them for nearly everything that's ever been hung on the walls of all 3 houses I've owned in that time. So the time has come to buy another big box (200+)

    With life being too short to buy cheap screws, what brand would you recommend that will last me for another 20 years?


Comments

  • #2
    Fiskar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭Fiskar


    SPAX
    http://www.tucksfasteners.ie/Spax/Default.152.html


  • #3
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,861 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Fiskar wrote: »
    SPAX
    http://www.tucksfasteners.ie/Spax/Default.152.html

    Are Tucks trade only?


  • #4
    Fiskar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭Fiskar


    Not as far as I am aware but Screwfix and other hardware stores carry SPAX. I would not use any other brand.


  • #5
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,861 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Fiskar wrote: »
    Not as far as I am aware but Screwfix and other hardware stores carry SPAX. I would not use any other brand.

    Cool. Will be up that way tomorrow so I'll drop in and see what the story is. Many thanks.


  • #6
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    SPAX best on the planet, Chadwicks sell them also


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  • #7
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,279 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    Saw thread title and thought it would be better suited to After Hours. :)


  • #8
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,861 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Thanks guys. I got sorted for Spax in Tucks this morning. €8 for 200 4x40mm zinc plated countersunk. Can't argue with that price. Homebase charge the same for their own brand screws. There is a weird head on them that can use Robertson (square) bits too. Thought it would cam out easier, but I've driven one half a dozen times without it slipping. Apparently they can be driven without pilot holes, but they seemed a bit wobbly on a Pozidrive bit. Anyway, I'm a happy camper - should do me another few years.

    As for the thread title, I don't know what you mean...


  • #9
    bigbrotherfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭bigbrotherfan


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Saw thread title and thought it would be better suited to After Hours. :)
    I'm thinking the thread title was intended to catch our attention, which it did. Sorry I can't help you with your enquiry though. lol


  • #10
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,861 ✭✭✭stimpson


    You people are sick!


  • #11
    bigbrotherfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭bigbrotherfan


    stimpson wrote: »
    You people are sick!

    I trust you are not including me in that! I did NOT post this thread but could not help agreeing that the title was ambiguous, to say the least.


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