So I want to hang up a pull-up bar in the basement wall that is concrete. My dad says that we can't drill holes into the wall because water would leak through. Is he right or wrong? We have had water leak through into the basement when it rains a lot. I just don't see how the water would get through to the holes.
Drilling hole in basement concrete wall (2025 Update)
May 25, 2019
Last reply: 8 months ago
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Can you not hang a bar from the floor joists above instead ?
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Depends on the detail of the hole. If you go right thru the wall and the waterproof membrane on the outside of the wall, water can get thru and it isnt hard to drill right thru some walls, depending on how thick the concrete is
And the detail of what is used in the hole to hold the screw etc matters too. A small hole with one of those plastic plugs that the screw goes into may be fine, because the hole doesn’t need to go right thru the concrete, but a bigger hold with one of the metal things that get cinched up to hold the bolt into the wall can end up with space the water can get thru. I'd normally use one of those for a pull-up bar.
Have you looked at portable pull up bars? Results of a quick search:
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