• reader [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    19 hours ago

    if you don’t do it right it can be hard to solidly screw into masonry.

    If your new place has solid wood to screw into I wouldn’t worry about it much.

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      17 hours ago

      Nope, it’s 40 yo masonry, classical type of brick, those solid small orange ones made of cooked mud

      • reader [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        9 hours ago

        ah

        the right size masonry bit, screws, and plastic sleeve anchors to grip the hole in the brick might do it, but the metal style anchors are much stronger if you’re worried about it coming loose. either beefy masonry screw anchors or the expanding metal sleeve kind