Do You Drill into the Brick or the Mortar?

hello and welcome to the building share today we're gonna answer that question do you drill into the brick or do you drill into the mortar well it's easy if you know how but if you're not sure about to tell you firstly tools you will need now most of us have these things we've got a power drill the one I've got I remember getting thirty years ago it still works fine I've got some SuperDuper Pro ones but I keep this one at home for my own DIY also you're gonna need a cordless drill if you've got one as they called a screwdriver if not a normal screwdriver we'll do a level if you're going to be putting two points we're just going to drill one but if you had something you wanted to hang that was that far apart well you just put your level across there we're gonna use a six mil masonry drill bit and to go with that we use red wall plugs or wall anchors if you hang something bigger and you want a bigger plug then use a seven mil masonry bit with a brown plug and if it's something tiny use a five mil masonry drill bit with a little yellow plug but mostly that's very interior stuff okay so wind bricks are laid obviously the brick you'll put a brick down and then dump his mortar and put a brick and it will squash out and takes the mortar away now you don't always get 100% of mortar in there there can be air pockets behind and if you think about it on a house houses need to be repointed because of mortar crumbles the bricks don't crumble so the answer to that question is we always drill into the brick not into the mortar so here's my DIY depth gauge now all that is is a bit of tape that is a tiny bit longer than my screw so some of you might have the Posche depth gauges on your drill I lost that many years ago so I just use I just measure a bit longer than the screw put a bit of tape around and we know what to do well anyway I haven't had this drill out for years and years and years but still works put it on a hammer function if you do have a good cordless drill that will work put on the hammer function and put it on setting to setting one is the screwing setting two is for drilling okay so mark your hole it's irrelevant where I I do it let's just zoom in a bit here we're going to mark the hole and then [Laughter] okay so that's sorted now we just need to put the plug in zoom out a bit plug goes in push it in you may need to tap it home with a hammer and then it's a simple case of putting your screw in I normally give it a little tap with my hammer one second back back sorry I'm looking at the monitor up there right give it a tap and a hammer two reasons Percy to set the plug in properly and at the moment if you have a good look let's zoom in there you can see the plug head so if I tap that in there zoom in a bit more there you go you can see the plug head disappears and then we are able with our cordless drill then we're able to just screw again I'm on function one screwing and on screw not hammer there [Applause] so there you have it do you drill into the brick or into the mortar well every single time into the brick and that will take a heck of a wait so as long as you set your plug properly and the plug will only be set properly if you use a right plug for the right drill bit and you use a right little bit and masonry bit you're laughing so just to recap a six mil masonry bit with a red plug which is a six-mile plug and I've used an inch and 3/4 screw if you used a bigger screw that will be absolutely fine thank you

Channel: The Building Sheriff

Views: 749,874

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Keywords: building, construction, brick, drilling, drilling into walls, drilling into brick, the building sheriff, masonry drill bit, electric drill, drilling into brickwork, drill

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Length: 4min 42sec (282 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 13 2020