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I am trying to mount a 2'x3' glass whiteboard that weighs ~14lbs to the wall in a new condo. Best I can tell, there is a concrete barrier very close to the surface drywall, and it isn't giving me enough room to install drywall anchors.

I'm open to doing pretty much anything to get this thing mounted, but I don't know what my best bet would be here. Should I look into drilling into the concrete? Is there a better way?

I own the place and am completely OK with doing something irreversible to the wall.

Bonus points: I'm playing with the idea of adding a bike rack to the wall as well so any solution that would let me mount significantly more than 14lb (and I could use for the bike) would be awesome!

isherwood
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I'd drill into the concrete and use some sort of masonry anchors, wall plugs should be sufficient for the white board because it goes close to the wall.

For a bicycle something stronger is needed, because it's heavier and mounts further form the wall. I'd go with expanding bolts. 10mm seems a good size.

Or just drill into the wall an glue steel bars in with a 2-part resin. (Chemset, builders filler etc), then put somethign over the bars to make them look nice.

Jasen
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