Had to fix a pole for a friend yesterday. The son had already started but gave up when he couldn't drill a hole in the lintel. I thought at first it must be steel but a small HSS drill couldn't touch it. I assumed it must therefore be concrete and tried my SDS hammer drill successfully without bringing the whole lot down. Now, I think I was lucky to get away with it, but what would the team have done in this situation?
Lawrence
Lucky to get away with what?
Masonary bit in a hammer drill with ear defenders. Some cursing & swearing.
Or a rawldrill / rawltool and a hammer for the nostalgic and patient.
Or alternatively an oversized plank of wood to bypass the lintel so that normal fixings can be made into brick etc...
I had a couple of bad holes like that. Got about an inch in (aiming for
1.5"). I just cut the plugs back and stuffed some araldite in the hole - did the trick very nicely, good firm fixing.
I tend to try and go above the lintel.
I half expected most of the plaster to drop off or the hole to get progressively larger and larger in diameter.
Yes, 'fond' memories of many hours trying to do a few holes. The Makita combi won't touch these lintels but the Lidli SDS takes a few seconds per hole.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember PeterC saying something like:
And the kids today would'nt believe you.
Ditto. Such effort for so little reward - mind you, it made one develop an aptitude for the easier solution/better positioning, etc.
SDS has turned us into softies. I love it though.
If you think about it - its the same principal as an SDS - thump, turn, thump, turn.
Someone here worked out the joules involved a while ago.
The mere mention of the words "curtain poles" make me wanna head for the shed {that's the one at the bottom of the garden, not the one at the retail park ;) }
Same here. I like the curtains to be close to the wall, so I bend in the end of each rail and also have some overlap.
I fit dozens of the buggers. Last week I fitted 10 window blinds (into the soffit) & 5 large curtain poles in the same house.
Thank God for SDS drills :-)
Until you hit a catnic ;)
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