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Anchoring a top rope at home 2-Apr-2009 At 8:05:28 AM atreyudelacy

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Most people have pretty much has summarised this already, but just to reiterate.

If you call Ramset, and ask for a copy of their specifiers resource book (maybe give them the
impression that your an engineering student?) they will most likely give it to you (free). In this you can
see the capacities for a range of different anchors, and respective SWL's for shear and tension into
solid, 3-hole, and 10-hole bricks, and also concrete blockwork. However this will only give you the
capacity of the anchor, not the wall.

You will need an engineer to determine the capacity of the existing wall, however without access to a
set of structural drawings for the adjacent building then the capacity they calculate will be quite
conservative. Guaranteed. Don't just ask your local tradie for some advice (No offence to any builders
out there), but as simple as a brick wall may seem, its not, and unless you're a structural engineer,
then you don't have the understanding to really know whats going on.

In any case, I think that there are much simpler solutions. How wide is your courtyard? If its not too
wide (say much more than 5m or so) and you don't like the idea of having a some big verticals coming
down at each side of your woodie (and really no-one does), then you could run some horizontal
members at the top of your woodie (to your roof level, or first floor if you have one). this way all the
lateral loads are transferred into your house, and you only need a few dyna-bolts into the adjacent
brick wall to take some small vertical loads. I have seen this done before, and it is a MUCH better
solution. You can also use the horizontal members to put a roof over the top and keep it all dry!