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Agreed, but not for the soft blockwork used now days in house construction, that's usually only on the garage /kitchen wall! the rest will be timber framed.

Most houses over here are still block construction on the ground floor, with studding only used internally on the 1st floor. If I have to drill a hole in block it's not a great hardship to pop in a plug, rather than use a much more expensive alternative - for timber framing wood screws still work as well as they always have.

Concrete screws definitely have their place, but I'm not convinced it's holding lightweight electrical fixtures.
 
An idea to deal with the going out of adjustment problem...

Why not get one with fixed sizes such as this:

The ideal T-stripper style are not VDE insuated, but for most work (especially the ones for thin instrument wire) work really well.
The thing I like about the one I showed is that it will get into and work in confined spaces - no need to be able to pull it sideways.

If you just have one, it's cheap enough to have along with all the others, for when it's handy.
 
Most houses over here are still block construction on the ground floor, with studding only used internally on the 1st floor. If I have to drill a hole in block it's not a great hardship to pop in a plug, rather than use a much more expensive alternative - for timber framing wood screws still work as well as they always have.

Concrete screws definitely have their place, but I'm not convinced it's holding lightweight electrical fixtures.
I never said they did, personally I would never use them, it was just an alternative I was pointing out as available, nothing beats a plug and screw. (help yourself)
 
Why? Why not get one with fixed sizes such as this:

The ideal T-stripper style are not VDE insuated, but for most work (especially the ones for thin instrument wire) work really well.
Wickes did (may still do) a version of this that actually had correct UK sizes on for a nice price - was my standard for years before I found the CK strippers, and a set of Knipex installation pliers.

Still have the issue with cutting close in backboxes that needs a different tool (Jokari) - someone please design a tool that works for all those scenarios, is small, and also less than £20 please thanks...
 

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