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Anonymous10/12/25, 10:52No.2950363Wall-plug in brick wall
Hello!
My coat hanger was affixed to a wall via a wall-plug, however I drilled in at the mortar. After some years the plug fell out due to too much weight being put on the hanger. I'm wondering what the best way to go about this is.
My father recommended that I buffer the hole with some material like a napkin so that the wall-plug can stick in again, however this seems like a short-term solution. It would mean I can avoid going to the store for material, so I'm here to as a question:
1) should I drill a bigger hole and get a bigger wall-plug to go with it?
2) is there some material I can use to patch up the hole and then drill in again?
3) Is my father's solution (buffering for the wall-plug with a napkin or something) really a good idea? It would save me a trip to the store
Thank you in advance
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Anon10/12/25, 17:13No.2950393
It depends on the load, if you're going to baby it, then the napkin solution can work. Other alternative is cutting one anchor in half and shoving the half into the hole. Or drilling a deeper hole and inserting a better+longer anchor.
The very proper solution would be larger hole + liquid anchor, the liquid anchor fills gaps very well and creates an extremely strong plug in any* sized hole. But the liquid anchor will grip the fastener extremely hard, so if you want to insert/remove screws at a later point, you'd have to get a full body plastic anchor (one that doesn't have big holes in the sides, like Fischer's), shove that into the liquid anchor, wait until the liquid is half-set, drive the screw, ???, very strong fixation.
The ones that have holes in them will let the liquid anchor leak in, and either make it impossible to insert or impossible to remove the screw.
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Anon10/12/25, 17:43No.2950398
Your father's solution will work, if you want a quick and cheap solution.
If you decide to patch the hole, you should drill it with a much bigger drill and then use the same material the wall is made of, ie mortar, to patch it. And then drill again for the new anchor.
But that will be a lot of work.
The solution with the liquid anchor from the anon above may be a better one.
The good thing about your dad's solution is that it involves almost no work and if it doesn't work, you can always choose another one.
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Anon10/12/25, 18:59No.2950416
fill the holes with plaster and stick new plugs in
let it set then screw back the hanger
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Anon10/12/25, 19:28No.2950422
Fill in the hole with bulkier cloth or rubbermat or cork. Any thing fills gives a good grip
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Anon10/12/25, 19:40No.2950423
Use chemical anchors, they grip like psych ward socks.
Or put a bigger anchor
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Anon10/17/25, 01:53No.2951241
What’s on the other side of the brick? If it’s a void or soft insulation, you could drill all the way through and use a toggle bolt. With enough of the threaded bolt sticking out, put your washers, nut and go from there.Story time:
>company hired me to fix a big metal box that kept falling off the wall
>deactivate & disassemble equipment in box, then pull it off the conduit / wall
>about 20 different people had tried to reattach this box over the years.
>it’s mounted to insulation foam with a thin layer of wire and stucco on the outside
>behind that is more foam. Styrofoam, spray foam, every kind of foam.
>a variety of hardware is stuck in the foam: toggle bolts, lag bolts, screws, nails, drywall anchors, concrete anchors. These people have tried it all
>until I came
>discover that the gap was full of steel conduit in a recessed exterior nook, owners wanted it covered up, so they threw foam at the problem
>Four ft. “Void” between exterior and interior electrical room
>Used 4 sticks of all-thread as tall as I am, cut the xtra off, secure to interior plywood
>mount box, put it all back together
>give it a few good kicks, it doesn’t budge
Felt good.glare