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Get a piece of pine that's a bit bigger than the hole and carve a sort of plug shape. Hammer it into the wall as if it were a frozen sausage. If you don't have pine you can use an ethically sourced shrunken head. That usually makes a decent wall plug once you drive a screw into it and it expands. If you've got unlucky and the brick is too weak in that area you could try chemical fixing.
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I've ballsed up fitting the rawlplugs while fitting one of a handful of shelves, and the shelf started falling out.
Moderately weighty shelf to drywall... Fixing with a pair of 100x150mm L shape brackets
(90cm wide x 20cm deep. shelf itself weighs about 5kg (it's a solid wood worktop offcut) and then I'll put crockery on top.)
It's in the kitchen on an external wall. A few cm of drywall, small gap then brick behind. Gap isn't big enough for spring toggles or similar.
Suspect I just didn't drill the hole properly in the first place and it was a bit loose. So now have a ~12mm hole for a 10mm plug.
How to fix up...
Chemical fixing like this?
https://www.screwfix.com/p/rawlplug-r-kem-11-styrene-free-polyester-resin-300ml/32863
Prefer not to start cutting out pieces of the drywall etc for the sake of a few badly drilled holes.