Plugs + screws or Resin bolt for Juliet balcony?

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I've been meaning to fix a dodgy Juliet balcony since we bought our house a couple of years ago. It's currently held in place with two bolts and the other two have presumably fallen out over the years before we bought. I'm not sure if it's best use standard wall plugs and coach screws or if I should use Resin, sleeves (maybe? Ideally not as I can get away with a 12mm hole then without needing to buy a 16mm bit) and M10 threaded bolts into the centre of the brick. I have some M10 125mm rods left over from a recent decking project so just need another tube of resin.

I can't say I do much leaning on it but I'd rather get it right. Thoughts appreciated, I'm guessing you can't really go wrong with Resin.
 

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Resin on that IMO. Make sure you buy a tube that fits standard mastic gun. Cheapest you can find.
Put some masking around thred to keep clean as I once got some resin on thred by accident and could not get it off for nut to pass.
Easy job tbh with resin.
 
What's there now? Presumably the insert of a Rawl bolt or a Rawl plug - in which case a new bolt or larger coach bolt.
 
It's not a balcony, merely a guard and a normal expansive bolt will be fine.
 
As implied in the original post it is a Juliet balcony yes. The old bolt I believe is stuck within the brickwork so I'll probably secure into the second hole. Since it's not a load bearing balcony is a M10 expansion anchor sufficient then? Cost wise, it's the same as the resin approach.
 
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LOL. If you can't stand on it, it's not a balcony. No amount of marketing will change that very simple fact.

Thats a railing acting as a guard.

And if it helps, "balconies" present rotational moments which the fixings need to deal with. Railings fixed to the wall do not.
 
Whilst I do agree with you on that, they are factually known as Juliet Balconies - I wish it was a proper one though!

Good to know, I'll just grab some M8/M10 x 100 coach screws and relevant plugs from toolstation in that case. Hopefully that means I can drill the correct sized hole without having to remove the whole thing.
 
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^woody^ said:
LOL. If you can't stand on it, it's not a balcony. No amount of marketing will change that very simple fact.

Thats a railing acting as a guard.

And if it helps, "balconies" present rotational moments which the fixings need to deal with. Railings fixed to the wall do not.
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I mean I could be wrong but I think you'll find the term originates from some old English writer bloke from a few hundred years ago rather than some overzealous marketing.
 
burg said:
Whilst I do agree with you on that, they are factually known as Juliet Balconies - I wish it was a proper one though!

Good to know, I'll just grab some M8/M10 x 100 coach screws and relevant plugs from toolstation in that case. Hopefully that means I can drill the correct sized hole without having to remove the whole thing.
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Yes, the point is that "thing" is just something fixed to the wall, and does not need any special fixing to deal with any non standard forces that a projecting "thing" might require.
 
I find the idea that it isn't load bearing a bit worrying.
It could potentially be load bearing.

What if you were to wake up in the night after a heavy session on the sauce, needing urgently to carry out an act of emesis, and the window just happened to be open, so you head for the fresh air, slump against the railing and projectile all over the philadelphus virginal?
Your full body weight would be pushed against the railing, causing a lot of force on the bolts. Moreso if you're a fat bugger.
 
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I find the idea that it isn't load bearing a bit worrying.
It could potentially be load bearing.

What if you were to wake up in the night after a heavy session on the sauce, needing urgently to carry out an act of emesis, and the window just happened to be open, so you head for the fresh air, slump against the railing and projectile all over the philadelphus virginal?
Your full body weight would be pushed against the railing, causing a lot of force on the bolts. Moreso if you're a fat bugger.
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Every shimmied up or down a drainpipe? Fixed with a few 1.5" nr 8s.
 
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