how would i go about doing this? i bought some regular eye hooks, but they're made for wood i think.
how would i go about doing this? i bought some regular eye hooks, but they're made for wood i think.
Find the size anchor wedge to fit it, just like you would use in a floor. These expanding wedges will grab better, Without the wedges, as you thread in the eye bolt the cement may crumble leaving a situation similar to a stripped hole so to speak. They probably have other products that will do the trick as well, I have not looked lately.
Eye hooks in concrete ... hmmmm. I'm familiar with concrete nails, but not screws ...
In the basement of my last house I built a little pony wall [ie framed about a 10' section] for the sole purpose of distributing the weight of the lag bolt that I hooked my whoopies to. So there were framing with concrete nails five feet in either direction from my attachment point.
Does that make sense? I feel like I need a drawing here ...
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You should get a machine thread eye bolt instead of a lag or wood anchor. I would use a hammer drill and set 3/8'' drop in anchors. Then you should be able thread them right in. You can remove them if you want as well.
Just when I thought you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this... and totally redeem yourself!
Here you go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yda9XIGH9Uk
Why not just use a 2x4 as a movable post? Attach it at the top by lag screwing it into the wood deck plate and a tapcon at the bottom. That would allow more flexibility both vertically and laterally along the wall with minimal drilling to your masonry.
David
you might consider screwing a 4' piece of "deck board (5/4" x 6" x 4') into the concrete using Tap-Cons. if it's a block wall screw into the motor joints.
then attaching "D" ring hooks to the board.
any time you can spread out the stress, it's a good thing.
and tap-cons screw directly into the concrete (after pre-drilling the correct hole in the crete)
Just when I thought you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this... and totally redeem yourself!
I've seen enough loose, sloppy fasteners in concrete to make me more than a little bit spooky about this. For starters, all concrete is not the same, so that's an unknown. If I were going to do this, I'd look into Hilti fasteners. You can get them at Home Depot, and rent the tool for setting them there, too.
Dave
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."~~~May Sarton
if your doing this in a basement do what i did i got a section of plank that is used for decks and screwed it into the beams under your floors ... it distributes the weight nice works really well .. than i have an eye bolt into the board
like in this thread ....
http://www.hammockforums.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=43144
It puts the Underquilt on it's hammock ... It does this whenever it gets cold
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