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If you were putting up a shelf in your garage that wasn't going to take much load, would you mount the brackets in mortar or avoid like the plague?


 
Posted : 27/01/2014 9:45 am
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You need sky hooks m8.


 
Posted : 27/01/2014 9:47 am
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Why mortar? If you have to drill you may as well drill into brick/block?


 
Posted : 27/01/2014 10:13 am
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Avoid mortar. Shelves get loaded up over the years.


 
Posted : 27/01/2014 10:17 am
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i cant work out what the reasons for mounting in mortar would be ....

mortar crumbles at the best of times - the last thing it needs is a hole in it ....


 
Posted : 27/01/2014 10:23 am
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Depends what the garage is made of but usually use [url= http://www.screwfix.com/c/screws-nails-fixings/shield-anchor-bolt-type/cat840436 ]anchor bolts[/url] because as globalti wisely said

Shelves get loaded up over the years.
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Posted : 27/01/2014 10:24 am
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I have had problems with using anchor bolts in blocks. I never seem to be able to get a balance between a solid fixing and just breaking the block when I tighten the bolt.

May be just because I am pretty handless mind!


 
Posted : 27/01/2014 10:27 am
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try - fischer hammer hit frame fixings

Holding up my world in the garage.

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Posted : 27/01/2014 10:28 am
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Depends what the garage is made of

Mortar? 🙂


 
Posted : 27/01/2014 10:30 am
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fischer hammer hit frame fixings

+1


 
Posted : 27/01/2014 12:13 pm
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The prev owner has drilled mortar in a number of places and I didn't know why, didn't seem the best idea to me so I thought I'd check with the collective. Thanks all.


 
Posted : 29/01/2014 10:09 am