Personal taste I guess, I used to work for a co that didn't like staples, everyone had a gun in their bag

Staple gun that is

Edited November 6, 201114 yr by reidy

Better surely than 4mm White clips knocked in every 8"-less obtrusive IMHO-and less potential for damage to!.

agreed staples used correctly are fine imo

Can anyone reccomend a good gun / staple size? One tool I don't have which would save me no end of hassle. Not a fan of clips either but sometimes they have to be used!

rapid 28 appear to be the norm?

A large national i used to work for forbid using staple guns

A large national i used to work for forbid using staple guns

Could be any one of them I reckon then judging by the state of the installs I've seen in the past!-any excuse not to use clips, trunking or any other method of cable containment-unless cable tieing to 230v cables counts.

A large national i used to work for forbid using staple guns

just company policy, there many that don't like them as its easy for an idoit to staple though the cable

Nothing wrong with staple guns in the right hands, I've got a coax staple gun as well, very handy.

Staple guns for 6 core etc = great

but for coax? a no-no imo. if you compress the coax you affect its transmission properties higher up the spectrum, making balancing of systems hard to impossible in some cases.ok, if its only 10 meters of cable, but above that, not worth the risk.

Im speaking from knowledge of large aerial systems, but the principal holds true in cctv cabling too.