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To date, the bikes have hung from hooks in a brick wall. Drill hole, add a rawl plug, screw hook in, job done. I now need to move the bikes to another wall, constructed from breezeblock.
This is obviously not as solid as brick. Indeed, with a merely pilot hole I can screw the hooks in by hand. This does not give me a great deal of confidence however that I can hang bikes from the hooks, long term.
What's the best idea? Longer term, I have been considering a sliding rail, but the ceiling in the garage is 270cm so it's either full stretch to hang bikes, use a step of some sort, or construct a frame from which to hang the rail. I still think that's the best long term solution, so for now the question is how do I safely hang bikes from a breeze block wall til I can fit that, or do I just bite the bullet and go for the rail?
Fit a large wooden batten to the wall at the height you want the hooks to go. Use the correct type and number of screws. Then screw the hooks into the batten. FWIW I found fitting the hooks at an angle of around 45 degrees below horizontal made hanging the bikes slightly easier.
Concrete blocks come in a range of strengths, so it depends on what you have. There are a variety of different fixing options, have a look at screwfix or similar.
I would just use some good quality plugs. Fisher Duopower or similar.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/fischer-duopower-wall-plugs-10mm-x-50mm-50-pack/5424p
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I would just use some good quality plugs.
Worked for me at our last place. Just had to be careful with the drill (0.5mm down iirc) as its easy to make the holes oversized. Decent plugs and no sign of any issues after years of use
Mine are just fixed with large plugs and screws. Not had one pull out in the 20 years they have been mounted.
Had to move them further up the wall as bikes have got longer.
As above they are fixed so that the wheels are at 45% so that we can get the bikes closer together
I have aircrete blocks for my bike storage wall and no fixings would last longer than 12 months. The holes usually ending up twice their drilled size once the plugs pulled out. I boarded over the blocks with 18mm ply, which is fastened by some large, DeWalt I think, plugs, coach screws and the board face against the blocks was liberally dotted with green Gripfill too. Seems to have done the trick.
I did wonder if the better solution would have been a semi-vertical bike rack, but they are pricey. Wasn't confident with a rail system as my DIY skills are mediocre at best!
A big batten for me, actually two of them, about a dozen big screws into each, then the hooks into alternating battens to get the height difference. All the waggling and tugging on the hooks was nicely isolated from the (terribly made and finished) wall.
New build garage, concrete blocks here. Have attached 18mm OSB to the back wall with hammer fixings, and using Planet X folding hooks fixed to the OSB. Easier to move things around, getting the height and spacing right for 4 bikes would've been a faff and left the wall like swiss cheese otherwise.
+100 to wood battens, OSB, etc.
We've got blocks like rough grey rice crispy cakes. You can't drill accurately enough and they're too soft to fix hooks direct reliably without faffage
As above, screw a long batten at least 2" thick and put your hooks into that.
Hammer fixings are the easiest as you can drill straight through the batten into the wall. It will make things far easier to line up or concrete screws,but again pre drill the batten as it allows you to mark the hole positions. A liberal application of no more nails builders glue stuff along the back will help bond it than just relying on the screws.
If you want to hang them from the roof you could do a simple 2:1 system with the hook on a piece of line and hoist them up - would make a bit more space also.
I measured again last night and have decided to go straight for the hanging rack. Will be ordering rollers and so on later and will pick up some channel strut from a local dealer
I was going to try to upload some photos of the solution I went with but recalled I'd already done so here
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I was going to try to upload some photos of the solution I went with but recalled I'd already done so here
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there has been an update since then though so I may try an upload in the next post...