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rsteventon

Fixing XPS to the walls ?

rsteventon
15 years ago

Hi All,

I was in a hardware store last night and noticed you could get fender washers and a nailgun using .22 calibre to drive the nails into concrete.

Has anyone tried this with fender washers to fix XPS to the wall ? In theory, it should be possible if the charge is exactly right compared to the concrete hardness and length and diameter of the nail.

My worry is that I will just blow the nail + fender washer right through the XPS and damage it so much that it won't stay attached to the wall.

The benefit of doing this is I don't need to drill a bunch of holes in super hard high pressure concrete.

Of course, I could do the same thing with the framing to the floor/etc.

This whole lot could even be cheaper than tapcon's.

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