Just noticed this today. Home owned house with private drive. The only people who have had access to my house this year are open reach who installed fiber however this seems completely unrelated to their work. Any guesses on why, who or what for? Pretty perplexed.
by Opfaff
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Probably BT to secure their ladder when doing some work so they don’t have to have a second person to keep the ladder safe.
They may have used a ladder and for safety reasons put this anchor in the wall. You tie the bottom of the ladder to the anchor to stop it slipping out when you climb. Sky installers do the same.
It’s next to a door. You sure it’s not for a hook to hold the door open and you have just never noticed it before?
Rock climber probably
It could well be OpenReach. They use expanding screw eye bolts exactly like that to secure ladders to the building. They should have removed it though and filled the hole.
Probably an installer to secure their ladder … but normally they’re supposed to remove them afterwards. That’s what the Sky guy who did ours said, anyway.
I think your house is just going through a bit of a rebellious phase.
Buttplug for your wall.
Ladder tie off point. They would normally take it with them and pop in a plastic plug.
So you can tow it
Houses are a bit big to put a collar around. It’s for attaching a lead when you take it for a walk.
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Attachment point for dog lead. Gotta walk the house.
Bet it really threw you through a loop when you found that.
It’s a glory hole for doggers. I’ll share this on Facebook.
This is an anchor point, the local council use them to stop your house flying away if you appear to have a disproportionately large number of balloons visible above your roof line. It makes collecting council tax very difficult if your house flies off.
Dog lead?
It’s an iron dog for securing a ladder, Fred Dibnah will be round shortly to deconstruct your chimney.
House nappers hun stay safe x
Nipple ring for houses. Don’t worry, it’s a phase and they will grow out of it.
Looks like an anchor point for ladders.
When the kids play up . You know
Hammock?
Your house identifies as a bull.
It’s an old fashioned ring pull similar to cans of drink. If there’s an emergency and you’re thirsty pull it and lovely cold pop will pour out.
In case they need to take it away, tow ring.
It’s an eyebolt for Openreach / Kellys / Quinns to attach their ladder to the wall for the climbing system they use. Idea is if setup correctly and they fell off their ladder, the ladder would stay in place and they’d be caught by the safety system.
Should’ve removed it and filled the hole though.
Source: Worked for Openreach when they brought this system in. Someone passed out at the top of a ladder and died from hitting their head so they had to bring this system in.
Ladder wall anchor.
TETRA bolt. You’ve had some work done for your phone/Internet?
It’s incase ‘they’ need to move your house 6 inches down the road. Totally normal. Nothing to worry about.
I work for openreach and can confirm this is us. I don’t work customer end so I can’t confirm if this needed to be removed and filled at the end of the job.
Probably used to secure ladder for 1 worker to work safely.
I’m starting to think none of us have anything unique to say
You can attach your dog’s lead to it while you run inside and take a piss
For clipping on a dog lead? Or holding the gate open with some form of chain??
The regs changed when I was fitting Sky years ago and everyone had to be ‘full arrest’. So it’s probably where someone had to bolt their ladder to the wall.