Mount Roll-up Hose Reel to Timber Frame

[marsflled]

I have a Gardena roll up 20m reel I want to fit it to the exterior of my timber frame house. The mounting bracket has the screw holes 58mm apart, but I imagine the studs in my wall are standard 35/45mm width.

How can I go about getting the m ounting bracket on my wall? 

[Dave-1]

Good Evening @marsflled 

First up I would like to say "Howdy" and welcome to the Bunnings community pages I really think these pages have great ideas to take a wander through.

For your question tho, You wall looks like its going to be fibro and I really dont like the ide of drilling holes into that. Good news tho!

If you look at your tap, to the left and to the right there are two vertical strips, these are cover strips to cover the join between the sheets of material. Under them will be the studs for the walls.

You can install some timber across the distance between them that is wider then the 58mm required for your bracket. That way you can mount your hosereel to that instead.

I like Merbau and was thinking something like this 140 x 19mm SpecRite Merbau Pre-Oiled Decking - Random Lengths and mounting this board horizontaly with some spacers made of the same timber to jut it off the wall. That way your bolts can be fixed. The cover strips of the joins should be able to be levered off gently with a large flathead screwdriver, making sure you only put pressure right next to the join as you dont want to crack the fibro. Once the new mounting block is installe dthen you can cut the old trim to fit and replace. 

Note the studs in the wall will probarlly be hardwood so pilot holes are a must..

The reason I suggested the Merbau and the width as I think it will match the nice area you have more so then a piece of H3 pine the same size

Dave

[marsflled]

Hi Dave, 

Thanks for the advice, I'll look in to the Merbau. 

Just to note this is part of an extension done in early 2000s so no asbestos (confirmed by previous owners). 

Thanks again for the help. 

[Dave-1]

Evening @marsflled 

Beautiful Even better, I really like the style you have. It reminds me of my grandmas place

Dave

[JacobZ]

Hi @marsflled,

Welcome you to the Bunnings Workshop community, it is great to have you join us.

As @Dave-1 has pointed out, the vertical timber strips will be sitting directly over a timber stud, so the best thing to do is to mount some timber between them to mount your hose reel to.

Use Zenith 10 - 8 x 75mm Galvanised Countersunk Rib Head Timber Screws to attach your timber to the studs.

The fixings that are supplied with hose reels are usually quite large, so you may need to either double up the Merbau like Dave has mentioned or use thicker H3 pine to ensure they do not poke through the timber into the fibro sheet.

Let me know what you think and if you have further questions, don't hesitate to reach out.

Jacob