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Bringing a breeze-block external wall out by 50mm.

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Hi all,

Doing a bathroom install and want to bring a breeze-block external wall into the bathroom by 50mm. When I do this normally I end up pilot drilling the wood and then fitting rawl plugs to the breeze block before finally drilling screws through the wood into the rawl plugs.

Takes forever.

Is there a nail that can go in a nail gun that will fix timber straight to a breezeblock wall without shattering the breezeblock or destroying the timber? Looking at 50x50mm timber.

There must be a quicker way and I don't like using glues - the wall will have 10mm tiles on it and plasterboard afterwards.
 
You could nail it using masonry nails but I personally be happy expecting nails to hold a wall covered with tiles.
 
I know you can buy 4" long nails for nail guns so that would leave 2" in the wall. Times that by lots of nails and I think it would be ok, but my concern is would the nail gun actually fire them through the block or would it split it I guess.
 
I guess I could just effectively make a small stud wall in front of the existing wall actually, that might work better.
 
Probably much better chance of being able to make it a flat wall too!
 
or do what everyone else does drill through the wood and block with a long masonary bit and use untapered plugs knock them through with the screw
 
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