Peter smith wrote:

I thought I'd grab partners drill and have a go at putting my pan rack
thingy up. OK its a normal drill, and I put in a masonary bit, drilled
in and it went ok for about 1.5 inches then it was like mutant rock!!!
It would not budge!! .. SO I put it on hammer action and it chipped away
a little more but not no where near enough to put a raw plug in as per
instructions saying. PArtner is too busy laughing at my attemtp to get a
straight answer out of him, I think he passed oput from laughter for
some reason lol... I did ask him for months ot put it up but hes has not.

Any ideas what I''m doing wrong ?

... be gentle am a bit wet behind the ears with DIY I usually just do
the painting lol.

Hammer drills can drill a lot of walls, but not all. You might there
fore need an SDS drill, SDS is a far more effective system.

Another maybe is you may have hit some steelwork inside the wall. If
so, dont try and drill through it, just move your holes a bit and try
there. This is the most likely explanation, so try another hole or 2.
But not 20

Hopefully you have a masonry bit rather than an HSS spiral bit. Here's
a good article on them:
http://www.wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index....tle=Drill_Bits

Lastly just a chance you might have a junk quality bit that died part
way through its first hole. It needs to still hahve the piece brazed
into the end thats wider than the main shaft of the thing.

Another drilling article:
http://www.wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index....ing_Techniques


NT