Plugs + screws or Resin bolt for Juliet balcony?

[Ivor Windybottom]

Someone who shimmies up your drainpipe can't sue you, as they're taking their own risk. Someone who leans on a handrail can.

It looks like there are two screwholes per bracket, only one has been used. You could double up if using resin, but not expanding bolts which might make the brick split and fall apart if you put two into one brick.

 

[Deluks]

Every shimmied up or down a drainpipe? Fixed with a few 1.5" nr 8s.

Can't say I have, sounds like you have experience.
Making your escape when her old man came home early?

 

[Deluks]

In my alcohol infused scenario, the force would be pushing the screws away from the wall. On a drainpipe, or even standing on a platform, the forces would be going down.

Sort of related (or not) .. a fun YouTube channel on the subject of forces on various types of bolts.

 

[burg]

Perhaps back to resin it is! Certainly can't complain about the strength then...

 

[^woody^]

Can't say I have, sounds like you have experience.
Making your escape when her old man came home early?

Normally on my surveys to check the eaves.

The pull out forces required to get bolts out of a wall are way higher than some drunken fat-body will exert. Whole scaffolds can be tied to walls without a drop of resin for instance, masts and antenna that flap about in the wind with high instant moments of force too.

 

[RandomGrinch]

Now, you won't believe this, but I've actually shimmied up a drainpipe, on a University field trip to Verona, to retrieve a football from a balcony - I seem to recall the drainpipe was attached with something a bit heftier than a couple of no.8x1.5"!

 

[^woody^]

Now, you won't believe this, but I've actually shimmied up a drainpipe, on a University field trip to Verona, to retrieve a football from a balcony - I seem to recall the drainpipe was attached with something a bit heftier than a couple of no.8x1.5"!

We're there Two of you Gentlemen of Verona?

 

[RandomGrinch]

We're there Two of you Gentlemen of Verona?

There were over 50 of us, and we were based in Milan for the week - so probably more like the outlaws?

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I wouldn't use anything that expands into bricks, especially modern ones, they're likely to fall apart and leave you with a much bigger problem replacing it.

Ensure the holes are super-clean after drilling, use an air spray.

 

[burg]

I wouldn't use anything that expands into bricks, especially modern ones, they're likely to fall apart and leave you with a much bigger problem replacing it.

Ensure the holes are super-clean after drilling, use an air spray.

I was just going to go with some SS M8 x 110mm coach screws and standard 10mm Nylon wall plugs in the end. I've secured other smaller bits to the exterior to the house and I've not faced much of a problem in terms of bricks crumbling (1996 property). Should be sturdy enough and at least the heads match the existing ones rather than threaded rod + bolt.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I think you're right. A Nylon plug should hold firmly enough without blowing the bricks apart.

Definitely stainless.

If you do double up on them then ensure the plugs are oriented so they expand sideways rather than vertically.