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John Rumm wrote:
On 10/03/2011 22:52, Nick Leverton wrote:
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Steven Campbell wrote:
As I was drilling the remainder of the brick to hold the back box, the brick
fell into the cavity so I'm now left with a hole with no place to secure the
back box!!

You're lucky. My sister-in-law was chiselling out a hole for a back
box when the bricks fell out into the next-door room leaving a nice
brick-shaped hole through the wall.

All these herculeans are welcome to come round and dig us out some back
boxes, I've done two rooms of this brick so far and not looking forwards
to the rest !

A decent SDS drill makes it child's play... I can do a double socket
cutout in brick in 10 mins these days.

Bit more of an amateur here with a Screwfix special SDS, plus our
bricks hereabouts have extra hard but brittle inclusions in (I warned
the electrician who rewired previous property to bring his extra-hard
chasing tool and he didn't believe me !).

Nick
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