Fill My Hole

Deary me, simple job and you have forgotten all about the most important thing you can have. It could be put solid where ever you wanted it by now, and to take it down would have been easy aswell.





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Rev-O said:
Light and smooth, I drilled them fine.

No need for the bit, unless it's on the side!
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Don't get cocky, it pulled out remember ;)

Drill a slightly smaller hole than what's recommended i.e 9mm instead of 10mm. Better that than too big and pulling out.

With a frame fixing you have to drive the screw and plug together into the hole, preferably through the bracket and then tighten down head the remaining inch or so onto the bracket.
 
i wouldn't use frame fixings, that's not what they're for, but in the real world of DIY they'll probably work.

hope they're not thermalite blocks Ollie or they really won't work\last
if you drilled it originally with a normal drill-bit they're thermalite.

from the weight and brackets your using, you don't need this type
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or
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this type will be fine
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and are better than these

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you can get a pack of various sizes in Wilkinsons, use the right size drill-bit, blow out all the dust from a blind hole and your done

thermalite blocks require a different approach :roll:
 
See how it goes with the frame fixings Rev: if that doesn't work I'll send you something OTT which will definitely do the job ... we made a bridge for a customer recently and there's still some ironmongery left over.
 
Well those Fischer nylon plugs are a wee bit short for me...I think I'd go with long frame fixing over that in a thermalite, if it is a thermalite. Those things easily pop.


Oh...they are 10mm to 12mm in diameter, silly me.

I agree with you whole heartedly then. :?
 
Never forget the elephant test... when I put something up, it stays up - long after the wall it's attached to falls down. Put it up, test it by me swinging on it (a not inconsiderable strain on a 2" wide glass shelf I can tell you) - if it moves, get bigger mounting hardware and remount using that.
 
Maybe, actually he could screw the brackets onto some longer wooden batten, that would negate most of this excessive anchorage, just use a few more standard plug n screws in the batten. If its in the garage, doesn't really matter what it looks like.
 
Well there you go Rev, after three pages of discussion over how to hang your brackets, we have some consensus if all else fails.

Screw and plug some batten on the wall, (batten is a thin strip of solid wood around (40 x 15mm ish, wider than the bracket anyway). Use something around twice the length of the bracket, securing the batten "quite" near its ends, that will reduce the load on the fixings and therefore the risk of "pull out". Then screw the brackets onto the batten.

If it still pulls out, use the frame fixings to further secure the batten.

Otherwise leave it outside.
 
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