Tubular steel bar

[Firky]

Do they deliver?

Nope - well I don't think so. I have a sat nav if you want it?

 

[Pip]

That place only an hour's walk away, I'll try there!

The wood idea sounds fine to me, but my much more practical other half says he will not countenence a man of my size doing pull-ups on half a dozens screws in a Victorian brick wall! Is he being too careful, do you think?

Lots of big, long screws, and rawlplugs to match, I reckon.

 

[laptop]

Think about 1-inch steel gas pipe. Or, given the span, maybe the next size up.

With it you get brackets that bolt round it nicely - three #6 screws in each should be OK if you have wood to screw into.

If you have to fix it to brick, you're certainly best off fixing some 2" x 3" wood into the brick with fuck-off big coach-bolts, then screwing the pipe brackets into that.

Butchest clothes and off down the plumber's merchant

 

[rich!]

Do they deliver?

they're a weird franchise or something, 'cos you order from them and someone local delivers the stuff. We get through a lot of strange metal bits...

 

[ViolentPanda]

That place only an hour's walk away, I'll try there!

The wood idea sounds fine to me, but my much more practical other half says he will not countenence a man of my size doing pull-ups on half a dozens screws in a Victorian brick wall! Is he being too careful, do you think?

Are you sure it's brick under the plaster?

If so, then as long as you use say half a dozen decently-sized screws and wall-plugs into the brick then you'll be fine, as long as you drill the bricks with a good masonry bit. The interior of brick house-walls don't tend to become anywhere near as friable as the exterior.

I can stick a dozen extra-butch wall-plugs and screws in the post to you, if you'd like, then "practical man" can size them up.

 

[Wookey]

Right, I'm going to take VPs and Laptop's advice with the screws and the wood, I think. If it all falls down I shall be blaming you two, and sending you the chiropractor's bill!!

PS: Do you have a pic of the screws to use, and the rawlplugs to use also? I've used little ones before but never anything this big (coach bolts you say?? - Have seen them singly in the B and the Q.)

 

[laptop]

Do you have a pic of the screws to use, and the rawlplugs to use also? I've used little ones before but never anything this big (coach bolts you say?? - Have seen them singly in the B and the Q.)

Pics - here.

Screws: 6 x 2" long Number 10 thickness should do your weight well, unless you're massive (Whether you use #10 or #12 depends on the size of the hole in the brackets - and the finishing on the hole decides whether you need countersunk (conical head, fits into conical recess), or round-head or pan-head...

Coach-bolts... four quarter-inch should do it. No harm going for 3/8 though. How long depends on the thickness of the plaster - is it Victorian? In that case you want bolts at least 3" longer than the thickness of the wood - an inch for the plaster and two in the brick. I have no idea where you get fuckoff big quarter-inch x 2" rawlplug-like things to put the coach-bolts into. Except by post from VP

 

[chainsaw cat]

Wellingborough cat C prison has a workshop with a bar cutter and a load of tubular bars.

I don't like references to Cat C prisons


Signed,

Cat, C

 

[Wookey]

I don't like references to Cat C prisons


Signed,

Cat, C

Tenuous, but I still lol'd.

 

[Wookey]

Pics - here.

Screws: 6 x 2" long Number 10 thickness should do your weight well, unless you're massive (Whether you use #10 or #12 depends on the size of the hole in the brackets - and the finishing on the hole decides whether you need countersunk (conical head, fits into conical recess), or round-head or pan-head...

Coach-bolts... four quarter-inch should do it. No harm going for 3/8 though. How long depends on the thickness of the plaster - is it Victorian? In that case you want bolts at least 3" longer than the thickness of the wood - an inch for the plaster and two in the brick. I have no idea where you get fuckoff big quarter-inch x 2" rawlplug-like things to put the coach-bolts into. Except by post from VP

Thanks lappy!

Will try at the B+Q, if not then I might have to bother VP.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Thanks lappy!

Will try at the B+Q, if not then I might have to bother VP.

It's no bother. I sorted out a dozen #12 x 2.5inch screws (countersunk posi-drive head) and 2 different sizes of wall-plugs for them last night, just in case.