Are all ground anchor bolts the same?

Updated on Jan 27, 2025

Not all ground anchor fixings are of the same quality or strength. Beware of suppliers giving misleading information about how strong their bolts are.

The bolts generally aren't the issue as the concrete or brickwork is invariably the weak point!

We deliberately use a 4-bolt fixing spread over a wide area to compensate for the substrate.

Any single-bolt, or two-bolt fixing is necessarily more reliant on the quality of the substrate, even if it uses big bolts. Also, using a big bolt often forces you to hire an industrial drill, and for what? To keep the manufacturing costs down or to perpetuate a poor design!

It's much better to have a decent multi-bolt fixing spread over a wide area. This is not rocket science: It's common sense!

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