On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:46:43 -0800, jgharston wrote:

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.

We were fixing a stout batten to a flimsy wall and put several 8mm holes
in nice and deep - full depth of the drill bit - to get 2 grey wallplugs
into each hole. Right length screws and you've got a really strong
fitting.

Then went into the kitchen next door to put the kettle on and realised
that an entire run of tiles on the other side was lying on the floor. The
tiling was hollow-sounding anyway, and the drill bit had just gone
through the 75mm block wall on each hole!





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