Chasing wall out for new plug socket.

Grz.26

Hi All, Just a quick one.

I have make a hole for a double plug socket in the wall about 3 foot up for where the TV is going to be. But i am having troubles in chasing out the wall to the floor. I am using a hammer and bolster, and not getting anywhere fast. Any ideas?

Regards

Richard.

ic

Use an SDS drill with a chisel attachment - will go through the brick like butter.

sloth

or, if you don't have an sds drill (which a lot of people don't) draw two lines about 3/4 inch apart then using a normal hammer drill just drill holes about 1 inch deep along the lines every inch. then using the hammer and bolster the brick work will come out a lot easier as you have weakened that area of the brick

ic

The 750W SDS drill I use is my dad's, he bought it from Netto about three years ago for £30. I've abused it, using it to chisel apart brick walls, chase out sockets and cable, mix concrete, drill a waste pipe hole through engineering brick. With the likes of Netto, Aldi and Lidl selling them occasionally so cheap, they really are worth getting!

olias

Before starting with the hammer and bolster, get yourself an angle grinder with a stone disc (If it's just a one off type job, you can get away with a cheap one for about £10 from argos or similar). Next mark out the wall with pencil lines as previously stated. Use the grinder to cut down the two lines to the required depth. Once done then you then get the hammer and chisel/bolster and chip out the 'tongue' left in the middle.

The grinder will produce a lot of dust so be aware of that.

Olias

wallbash

Angle grinder idea is great , in a complete renovation, but not practical
because of the 'huge' amount of dust as you stated.

SDS drills are great, if you have one , but hardly worth the effort of driving to the shops to get one for one 'plug hole'.

Stick with sloth idea, and get a bigger hammer:D

noxon

Screwfix have an SDS drill for £39.95

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/58494/Power-Tools/SDS-Drills/Direct-Power-BS26S3-5kg-SDS-Plus-Drill

Obviously it's not top-spec but for the price it's great. It took less than10 seconds to drill a 20mm wide hole through 30cm of external wall where our hammer drill, after hours of work, had failed to make an impression more than a few mm deep and currently OH is using it to channel masonry for sockets we're moving and while not ideal because the chisel rotates it's definitely faster and easier than the hand hammer and chisel method.

Volcano

Those cheap SDS drills really are worth it, its inevitable that they'll be another time you'll need it to drill a big hole in masonary or chisel at concrete and the speed they go through concrete and the like is amazing.

Angle grinders are good for precision work, but I echo what others have said about the dust, it's absolutely choking inside and unless you have the room gutted already, a few dust sheets over the furniture really won't be enough!

hartcjhart

if it is brick mark out the area the spray water on it little by little so it soaks in then use the grinder it cuts down the dust,anything else just use the hoover while grinding then its not so bad,
remember the rotation of the disc will show where to hold the hoover

hartcjhart

or you could use surface mounted trunking and paint to match the wall a lot easier

zax47

noxon wrote: »

.............currently OH is using it to channel masonry for sockets we're moving and while not ideal because the chisel rotates it's definitely faster and easier than the hand hammer and chisel method.

Check the manual and look at the controls - even the cheapest SDS drill I've seen had a "rotary stop" setting for chiselling without rotation!

EDIT TO ADD:

So does this one, from the manual, section 8;

8. CHISEL FUNCTION

1 Adjust the lever selector to position
“ “ to provide the hammer action (see Fig 7)
2 Adjust the dial selector to position
“ “ to stop rotation of the chuck (see Fig 8)
3 you are now set up for chisel work using

hammer action.