Hanging things from breeze blocks

[Bloodrayne]

Hi all,

Although I've hung a few things around the house over the years, none have tended to be that heavy - I am now looking at hanging my bikes (including a 15kg+ one) in the garage on the breeze block wall.

I have limited experiences with breeze blocks, but in my older house removed a shed and was surprised by how easy they fell apart and crumbled - my house is 15 years old (if that matters!) but I just wanted to do a double check before drilling into something and causing irreplaceable damage.

Any guidance/lessons learned from experience? Or am I just worrying excessively when I should be drilling?

Thanks!

 

[robj20]

I've hung a few 30kg+ radiators in my house on thermolite blocks which is even worse than breeze block.

Used Fischer SX plugs.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/fischer-fischer-sx-nylon-plugs-14-x-70mm-20-pack/28011


And these screws,
https://www.screwfix.com/p/turbocoach-coach-screws-yellow-zinc-plated-6-x-70mm-100-pack/22717

Start with a smaller bit, and don't use hammer action.

 

[The_One]

worrying over nothing

have a few bikes hung from brackets in my garage which is breezeblock

 

[Buffman]

I imagine each bracket (2?) will have multiple points for screwing in (and associated plugs?)

Thus 15kg load isn't too significant (in comparison to older days when people had 50+kg tvs mounted!). I would just use good rawlplugs or fischer plugs as posted above.

 

[Bloodrayne]

Cheers all - much appreciated!

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Just make sure you drill depth thats the key

Breeze can be a bit iffy in places, but if you have depth to the fixing you will be fine
I tend to use frame fixings/hammer in fixings now for these sort of thing, cheap and go nice and deep

https://www.screwfix.com/p/easyfix-frame-fixings-8-x-100mm-10-pack/19356?_requestid=256707

Its different if you are screwing into a ceiling, but into walls these things are great