What is the best way to secure a flower window-box on a window-ledge? The window-ledge is granite so it is impractical to drill this. The wall around the window is brick, and I though of attaching a wood or metal strip across the window. Is there a better way?
Securing a window-box
Jul 04, 2010
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filling it with soil is the usual method
window box retaining brackets, e.g.
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A terra cotta or concrete window box is the only solution IME. Plastic is fine till it dries out, which is once a day at the moment
I find Devon Granite easy to drill - with an SDS!
Our solution as to get a local chappie to make something for us:
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now has a trough in it - I just put those there when I took the photo a while back)
Gordon
I put a couple of eye-bolts into the brickwork each side of the window and then strung a wire rope between them at a height just below the top of the window box.
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