I put a couple of wall-hangers up for my bikes a while ago, into the party wall of a 1910s brick house. As far as I can tell it's failing plaster straight onto brick. Within a few weeks both had fallen off the wall - my diagnosis being the rawl plugs and screws hadn't gone far enough into the proper brick, big chunks of plaster came down. I want to re-hang them: should I just be looking for longer more substantial rawl plugs and screws or do the metal-sheathed rawl plug chaps offer any advantage for my requirements?
Check there’s some good brickwork under there first :)
Longer screws and a deeper hole will do you. Lightly screw into a rawl plug then tap it gently in to the hole until its through the plaster and settles in to brick. Wind out the screw then add your fixing.
I put a couple of wall-hangers up for my bikes a while ago, into the party wall of a 1910s brick house. As far as I can tell it's failing plaster straight onto brick. Within a few weeks both had fallen off the wall - my diagnosis being the rawl plugs and screws hadn't gone far enough into the proper brick, big chunks of plaster came down. I want to re-hang them: should I just be looking for longer more substantial rawl plugs and screws or do the metal-sheathed rawl plug chaps offer any advantage for my requirements?
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