How to Anchor a Post to a Brick

Attaching your new decking corner post to a brick home requires special anchors that are made for concrete and brick applications. A metal hit anchor has a sleeve that inserts into the brick and a fastener that enters the sleeve and expands it, like a molly bolt, to hold the anchor firmly in place. This type of anchor will also attach wooden fence posts to your brick home.

Measuring tape
Safety glasses
Hammer drill
Carbide bit
Masking tape
Wire brush
Shop vacuum
1/4-inch concrete metal hit anchor
Hammer

Instructions

- 1
  Measure the thickness of your wooden post and add 1 inch to determine the concrete metal hit anchor length you will need for fastening.
- 2
  Put on safety glasses. Insert a 1/4-inch-diameter carbide bit into the chuck of a hammer drill. Turn the drill to the hammer setting.
- 3
  Determine your drilling depth by adding the minimum embedding on the anchor instructions plus 1/4 inch.
- 4
  Wrap a piece of masking tape at your drilling depth from the tip of the drill bit in a circle around the bit.
- 5
  Drill a hole in the brick up to the masking tape mark.
- 6
  Clean the hole in the brick out with a wire brush. Insert the wire brush and twist it left and right while inserting and removing it until no more debris falls out of the hole.
- 7
  Place a shop vacuum hose flat against the brick and turn it on to clean any embedded debris out of the hole.
- 8
  Set the post next to the brick and mark the wood at the same area with the hole in the brick. Drill a 1/4-inch-diameter hole on the mark of the post. Set the post against the brick, aligning the holes.
- 9
  Insert a concrete metal hit anchor through the post and into the hole in the brick. Hold the post in place with one hand and drive the nail head of the anchor with a hammer until the head of the anchor is flush with the pole exterior.

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