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UdemyHow to Install Flagpole Bracket to Stucco Wall: FREE Video!
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Korshub's take
Get the bracket into wood, not just plaster
A flagpole bracket that isn't anchored into solid wood behind a stucco wall will eventually work loose, a common problem the instructor has seen repeatedly, especially with plastic anchors that just spin in place. This free video explains why: modern stucco is often just a thin coat over an insulation board, sometimes with no plywood backing at all, so it can't hold real weight on its own.
The course shows you how to locate a wood stud behind the wall, and, critically, what to do when your bracket is wider than a single stud, a scenario that trips up even experienced installers.
Who it's for
DIYers and homeowners installing a flagpole bracket on a stucco exterior who want it to actually hold, not just look installed.
Key takeaways
- Why plastic anchors fail on modern stucco construction
- How old, thick concrete stucco differs from modern thin-coat stucco
- How to find a wood stud behind a stucco wall
- What to do when the bracket footprint is wider than one stud
About this course
In this video course viewers will learn all they should need to know in order to install a flagpole bracket to a stucco wall. It's funny how many people out there don't know how to install a flagpole bracket to a stucco wall, sad actually.
I don't know how many times I've come up to a house & seen the flagpole bracket not screwed in properly to stucco. Some flagpole brackets have been installed into stucco with plastic anchors I've seen before, where the screws just spin in the plastic anchors & really aren't tight.
There's lots of variables when it comes time to install a flagpole bracket especially installing one into a stucco wall. Have you seen stucco now days? Most of the time the stucco is just a thin layer of stucco installed over an insulation board with possibly OSB plywood behind that & in some cases no OSB plywood behind the foam board at all so do you really think little plastic anchors will hole into this type of stucco wall?
In the old days stucco was a full 3/4" thick concrete material & you couldn't even put a drill bit through it unless of course you used a drill bit designed to drill through concrete stucco. Now days they don't install stucco like that anymore rather the way I just previously described. So how would you go about installing a heavy flagpole bracket up to a stucco wall that appears to not be able to hold a flagpole bracket without hitting wood backing? Not easy.
Well you will learn how to find a wood stud behind where most flagpole brackets are installed & how to actually find the wood stud & what to do when your bracket is wider than a wood stud. Yes you will learn a lot on this video course for sure.
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