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Just saw a guy in Atlanta use a regular drill bit on a concrete wall for a coax line, and the whole anchor pulled out after two days.
I keep seeing people skip the proper masonry bit, and it matters because that wall anchor has zero real grip without a clean hole, so has anyone else had to go back and fix a job like that?
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aliceshah28d ago
Oh man, that's a classic. A regular bit just spins and makes a rough, oversized hole, so the anchor's basically just sitting in dust. I've fixed a few of those for friends, and you have to go up a size in anchor or use a whole different kind of fastener. It's always more work to fix it than to just do it right the first time with a masonry bit.
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angela_baker28d ago
Honestly, how many times have I seen that exact thing happen on a job?
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hart.mark25d ago
My last apartment had plaster walls that crumbled with regular bits. I switched to using a hammer drill and carbide-tipped masonry bits for every anchor. It made a clean hole and saved me so much time on repairs later.
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