The chimney goes through my room, will I hit it?

[Frozenguy]

I need to put a yellow bicycle hook into a wall in my room. It goes in about an inch past the drywall.
The chimney takes out a corner of my room, if you can imagine instead of a normal corner, the corner is coming into the room by about 1.5ft X 2ft.

The chimney isn't like, right there right? I dont want to create a crack in some fire safety wall. Can anyone shed some light on this?
Its a good construction home not older then twenty years.

Thanks for any help.

Frozenguy

 

[Pirate]

Chances are you have about 6 or more inches to play with.

You can use a thin screw driver or wire and poke it in where ya want the hook to check behind the drywall if it makes ya feel better. But I am pretty dang sure your in the clear.

Knock on the drywall and you should be able to hear if its hollow as well. I seriously doubt the chimney tube rests against the drywall. There must be a space for safety. The chimney would be metal pipe if its only 20 years old.

I've been in construction for 30+ years. I wouldn't hesitate to do it if it was me.

Hope that helps.
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[Lord Doobie]

nobody needs to put a yellow bicycle hook into a wall

 

[Frozenguy]

Chances are you have about 6 or more inches to play with.

You can use a thin screw driver or wire and poke it in where ya want the hook to check behind the drywall if it makes ya feel better. But I am pretty dang sure your in the clear.

Knock on the drywall and you should be able to hear if its hollow as well. I seriously doubt the chimney tube rests against the drywall. There must be a space for safety. The chimney would be metal pipe if its only 20 years old.

I've been in construction for 30+ years. I wouldn't hesitate to do it if it was me.

Hope that helps.
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That does help thank you so much! I feel confident now, but I'll still run the wire through to get a feel just as a check/test. Never hurts to check. But thank you!

nobody needs to put a yellow bicycle hook into a wall

I was just asking because thats the most I would use. I have thinner hooks that I'll probably end up using.

 

[PharmaCan]

Why bother? Any hook you put into drywall is not going to support/hang anything.

If you post what you want to hang from the wall there, you can get some good ideas on how to do it in a way that will work.

PC

 

[Pirate]

Run a finished piece of white strip board (or finish of choice) from stud to stud and screw the hook into that.
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