In fact amongst the bullshit and slagging I've stated it is stretcher bond brick with lime mortar. However I also suspect that it is double leaf, possibly with wooden wall ties.
I know a builder who knows these houses intimately I ask him - just remembered.
-- Mike W
Madness. Total Little Middle England madness.
I would probably look for a frame which would transfer the weight to the floor, and position it over a wall (50Kg is not heavy enough for it to need to be positioned over a structural wall), or spread across a few ceiling joists (but not in the middle of a long unsupported span). Fix it to the party wall and floor.
I've seen something like this used to hold a boiler over a hot water cylinder to make a single combined unit. You could try asking in a plumber's merchant if they have such a frame.
I can lift 50Kg easily mate. Are you saying that when I trawl 50kg up te stairs I am risking life and limb? Well you are not, but others are..
This thread is utter cobbblers.
I've got a 600 liter water tank in my loft. 600kg or over half a ton when filled.
It sits on the ceiling joists abutting a chimney breast. We did put a few more braces in. Its fine.
A typical person weighs what - 14 stone? That's 88kg. Are you sure its safe to walk in your loft?
50kg is just two bags of cement. Its not even enough sand to fill a wheelbarrow.or spread
What you've said seems to bear no relation to this thread, which is about hanging a 50kg weight 12" out from near the top of a brick wall (lime mortar in this case).
The worst case scenario is that someone working on the boiler looses their footing and grabs onto it, pulling with thier full weight.
Resin anchors into engineering blocks would be OK, but not any old fixings into soft bricks.
Do the boiler manufacturers offer any advice on fixing the boiler in that particular situation?
One way to get a stronger fixing is a couple of 2x4 or bigger vertical bearers, that are bracketed to the rafters at the top and a cross bearer at the bottom, as well as bolted to the wall. The boiler could then be fixed with suitable studs bolted though the bearers.
cheers, Pete.
I have a feeling that he is actually refering to himself, since the above seems like such a fitting explanation for may of his presumtions. So he can just dismiss physical laws when they fail to fit in with hit pet theory.
< snip. More mentalism >
it always about you isn't it...
I thought it was about ceiling joists collapsing. And its still no big deal.
In a solipsistic universe, by definition, yes.
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