here at efixx we absolutely love a product that makes electricians lives easier and I believe
i'm holding in my hand here something that's going to do just that so this is the rapid sliding wall
bracket from Walraven what's the thinking behind this guys well if it's going to save electrician's
time joe it must replace the traditional method traditionally we take a piece of wood create
ourselves a noggin between two uprights of a stud wall in order that we can fix the box
absolutely so obviously you've got to get your bit of timber you've got to measure up
and then you've got to cut it then you've probably got to cut it again to make sure
it goes in so hopefully we're going to see that installing this will be quicker
than that so okay with that in mind i think the only thing to do is you just start installing
that and you've given me a luxury head start I'm going to find a piece of wood
there is a saw as well and we're going to position it somewhere between the two noggins at no height
in particular i think just to make it nice easier you're ready yeah let's start then okay so not
overly familiar with installing these right okay i'm kind of feeling my way a little bit here so
the old chestnut is it is it measured twice cut three times is that the one slide bend there we go
and a half we've got all the kits so you better hurry up are we worried about specific heights
no no not at all i think it's all about the speed of process not me bending down
all right so that's that side in
now we'll have a
okay so we're gonna have a closer look at actually installing this in a minute
what we're doing here is just having a look at the ease and speed of installation
i'm done so am i oh wow that was rapid oh nearly done nearly done yeah just all the
all that massive fixing fixed it that quick yeah absolutely let's take a closer look
so as always joe you made that look incredibly easy i'm gonna have a demonstration on that we've
got two brackets in front of you this time yeah so wall raven produced the rapid sliding wall bracket
in two sizes so we've got the shorter size here which will span gaps from 250 mm to 400 ml wide
that's 10 inches to 16 inches if you're listening from the past and then we've got the larger size
which will cover spans from 400 to 600 mm which is 16 inches to 24 inches and that expands between
measurements is really important because it allows you to adjust for the joist
gaps yeah absolutely so different different widths of both stud and joists as well okay so
will we have a demonstration taking the shorter one yeah absolutely so we're going to install
that here i want to bring in hand can okay so what's the first thing you have to do then joe
so very simply when you get the product it looks like this so you just give it a little bend there
and that will just snap cleanly along those pre lines there pre-marked lines and then it's just
a matter of slotting the two end pieces together and they just slide in nice and easily like that
so one size is slightly smaller than the other so it just slips in really nice and easily and
did that move in and out quite simply yeah absolutely so you can uh change that you can
you can change it so if you push it in too far it can come back out again which is really good
what's next so then all you've got to do is just bend up that end there
like that and then bend that end up like that as well you can see i'm just just doing this
with my bare hands this is not not very difficult to do and i'm going to look at putting this into
this gap here that we want to bridge so what's quite nice about this is that you've got a couple
of different points here that this end piece will now really easily bend along so we could bend it
along there or we can mount it along there and that gives you different fixing depths
okay which is really quite smart i'm going for the shallower one here because i want to get my
uh electrical accessory to the right depth so it's very simply just a matter of i think lining that
up with the edge of the stud is the way i think that it's quite good to do yep and then just
bend that again that will daisy against the stud yeah really nice and simple and then it's just a
matter of of touching that in there again i think it's probably easier to fix one end you can go and
fix the other end you've got a couple of different places you could fix it yeah so we've got
these four fixing points on the front I'm just going to use two of those because I think that
will be more than sufficient in this case yeah and because I'm fixing it on the front here I'm going
to use nails with a nice shallow head on there so that it's not sticking out too far and distorting
the plasterboard right but you could if you wanted to fix it on the side here so you can see you've
got those two little holes there yeah so you could screw through there into the side of the stud if i
prefer to do it that way okay so just a couple of nails on each side and you're gonna be fitted
down yeah absolutely again could go for all four but i think two sufficient in this case
there we go so that's one of those in and then we'll just brush the other one in
the opposite corner okay like so and then i'm just going to push this across to that side
slide that out makes sure it's level there's no cutting of wood three and blowing it times
et cetera i think it's quite good as well just to give once you've slid that out because it
sort of bends off that way just give it a little push direction again just to get it really wedged
in there and then you're going to just level it off with your eye yeah line it up there
yeah give that a bend and then just make sure that we get that reasonably square because i've
left my spirit level across the studio there okay you've always got eyes use your eyes okay so put
that in there and two more nails and that's it third yeah absolutely so we'll wash that one in
get that in there and then just tease the other nail out of that
okay and wash that you can also use this and that is the bracket installed
how about that yeah that's good let's go back to the original joist idea it doesn't quite fit does
it drops etc we're going to trumpet nails and hold it into position and as always you know i i was
doing that slowly to explain what was happening you know you think if you were doing that in a
rush seconds i think that would take seconds and of course it's installed now and you've got the
option of fitting the box to it yes how easy is that again really nice and easily uh so all we're
going to do here is just bring in the hand cam yeah so what we're going to do is just line this
up to obviously you know the right height and level and all that sort of stuff and then we're
just going to clunk a hole through the back here now i've been a bit naughty here again i'm using
the counter sunk head screws on on this box okay just thinking one of your learners did that would
be uh yeah well there is round headed screws as well and it just protrudes slightly doesn't it
from the actual uh joist fixing point so we've got a little bit there so the dry line wall
can be installed from around that box that's exactly the same really easy as well yeah again
that's just biting in through these pre-drilled holes along the back and just screw that in there
and again as you say that's protruding slightly to make life a little bit easier for the borders
and the skimmers when they come in just make sure I've got that level because my OCD won't let me do
anything else and just give that a little nip up and that is the job done well that was easy okay
so there was no stage of that that was difficult if you think back to the the piece of wood we'd
have to find on site along with the saw that we'd have to find on site in order that we cut it then
we'd have to go and probably often find some more now is it a larger or screws etc in order to fit
the nog in between two joists i think we proved that that is a considerably faster absolutely and
makes electrician's life easier but it doesn't just use for box though is it what else we use
it for so this has been designed with other uses as well so you could fit this to uh for installing
pipe work so maybe to support conduits dropping down inside the wall again bit of a perennial
problem have you fixed the conduit in the center of a wall drop there between studs so there's a
great solution it is really really good and just just a little point as well something that that we
noticed along the way is that actually you don't have to bend this in the direction that we did you
can bend that flap the other way right which gives you slightly different uh mounting depth options
as well okay that's good especially when you fit in pipes of different sizes etc exactly we always
like products at efixx that save electricians time and joe would you describe the product and suggest
whether you think it saves electrician's time well that is the wlaven rapid sliding wall
bracket RSWB and i think that that absolutely is going to save electrician's time and we like that efixx