About to start first fix electrics on the renovation project and was
wondering about buying a wall chaser to speed things up a bit (probably
neater too!).

House is a mixture of lightweight/concrete blocks in the extension and
brick in the original part.

Toolstation have an SDS atachment http://www.toolstation.com/index.html?
r=a&feature=52907&rr=R20m89054fXX4F9K&gclid=CI715o v545YCFQnmlAodW3dsOw
at £75

Screwfix seem to sell a number of different machines with this one
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/81200/...nders/Erbauer-
ERB125Y-125mm-Wall-Chaser at £99 the cheapest.

Anyone had any experience of using any of these care to comment.

Cheers

Martin
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Martin Carroll

"Martin Carroll" wrote in message
...
About to start first fix electrics on the renovation project and was
wondering about buying a wall chaser to speed things up a bit (probably
neater too!).

House is a mixture of lightweight/concrete blocks in the extension and
brick in the original part.

Toolstation have an SDS atachment http://www.toolstation.com/index.html?
r=a&feature=52907&rr=R20m89054fXX4F9K&gclid=CI715o v545YCFQnmlAodW3dsOw
at £75

Screwfix seem to sell a number of different machines with this one
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/81200/...nders/Erbauer-
ERB125Y-125mm-Wall-Chaser at £99 the cheapest.

Anyone had any experience of using any of these care to comment.

Cheers

Martin


Get one with the best dust extraction system. All these tools work at
chasing the masonry, but very few actually have a good dust removal system,
which, with the works they are going to do, is the most important part, in
my opinion. So a good one is the one that attaches easily and effectively
to the big vacuum cleaner hose. And the only way to find out which one that
is, is to go and get a grip of them all in your hands.

But that's just me.

Martin Carroll wrote:
About to start first fix electrics on the renovation project and was
wondering about buying a wall chaser to speed things up a bit
(probably neater too!).

House is a mixture of lightweight/concrete blocks in the extension and
brick in the original part.

Toolstation have an SDS atachment 52907

How does that work I wonder?


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On 7 Nov, 20:54, Martin Carroll wrote:
About to start first fix electrics on the renovation project and was
wondering about buying a wall chaser to speed things up a bit (probably
neater too!).

House is a mixture of lightweight/concrete blocks in the extension and
brick in the original part.

Toolstation have an SDS atachmenthttp://www.toolstation.com/index.html?
r=a&feature=52907&rr=R20m89054fXX4F9K&gclid=CI715o v545YCFQnmlAodW3dsOw
at £75

Screwfix seem to sell a number of different machines with this onehttp://www.screwfix.com/prods/81200/Power-Tools/Grinders/Erbauer-
ERB125Y-125mm-Wall-Chaser at £99 the cheapest.

Anyone had any experience of using any of these care to comment.

Cheers

Martin
--
Martin Carroll

After years of hand chiselling, and thinking of buying chasers etc,
last weekend I cut a chase with an SDS drill and chisel bit. Not only
was it quick and easy, but I bet it made whole lot less mess than a
chaser would. Spend the ton on a half-decent SDS drill and chisel
bit, then you'll have something you can use for a whole lot of other
applications too.

"GMM" wrote in message
...
On 7 Nov, 20:54, Martin Carroll wrote:
About to start first fix electrics on the renovation project and was
wondering about buying a wall chaser to speed things up a bit (probably
neater too!).

House is a mixture of lightweight/concrete blocks in the extension and
brick in the original part.

Toolstation have an SDS atachmenthttp://www.toolstation.com/index.html?
r=a&feature=52907&rr=R20m89054fXX4F9K&gclid=CI715o v545YCFQnmlAodW3dsOw
at £75

Screwfix seem to sell a number of different machines with this
onehttp://www.screwfix.com/prods/81200/Power-Tools/Grinders/Erbauer-
ERB125Y-125mm-Wall-Chaser at £99 the cheapest.

Anyone had any experience of using any of these care to comment.

Cheers

Martin
--
Martin Carroll

used my sds drill with a normal chisel bit to make the chanels for hte
kitchen wiring the other month,

but messy but not really dusty, fast, but not the neatest chanels,

i could have spent 25 quid on a proper chanel chisel bit, but for the only
time i'm likely to do any chanels it wasnt worth it, as i'd have also wanted
the electrical box sinking tools too, instead did them with a normal chisel
in the sds too, bit rough but a blob of plaster in the back before i pushed
the box home sorted that out.

"GMM" wrote in message
...
On 7 Nov, 20:54, Martin Carroll wrote:
About to start first fix electrics on the renovation project and was
wondering about buying a wall chaser to speed things up a bit (probably
neater too!).

House is a mixture of lightweight/concrete blocks in the extension and
brick in the original part.

Toolstation have an SDS atachmenthttp://www.toolstation.com/index.html?
r=a&feature=52907&rr=R20m89054fXX4F9K&gclid=CI715o v545YCFQnmlAodW3dsOw
at £75

Screwfix seem to sell a number of different machines with this
onehttp://www.screwfix.com/prods/81200/Power-Tools/Grinders/Erbauer-
ERB125Y-125mm-Wall-Chaser at £99 the cheapest.

Anyone had any experience of using any of these care to comment.

Cheers

Martin
--
Martin Carroll

After years of hand chiselling, and thinking of buying chasers etc,
last weekend I cut a chase with an SDS drill and chisel bit. Not only
was it quick and easy, but I bet it made whole lot less mess than a
chaser would. Spend the ton on a half-decent SDS drill and chisel
bit, then you'll have something you can use for a whole lot of other
applications too.



I'll second that emotion. It is the quickest and easiest way to chase
masonry that I have found, also.

In article ,
Martin Carroll writes:
About to start first fix electrics on the renovation project and was
wondering about buying a wall chaser to speed things up a bit (probably
neater too!).

House is a mixture of lightweight/concrete blocks in the extension and
brick in the original part.

Toolstation have an SDS atachment http://www.toolstation.com/index.html?
r=a&feature=52907&rr=R20m89054fXX4F9K&gclid=CI715o v545YCFQnmlAodW3dsOw
at £75

Screwfix seem to sell a number of different machines with this one
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/81200/...nders/Erbauer-
ERB125Y-125mm-Wall-Chaser at £99 the cheapest.

Anyone had any experience of using any of these care to comment.

I have a tool like the 125mm-Wall-Chaser but different make.
Came from screwfix some years ago. Should be fine for what you
have in mind. They have been available for as little as £60 so
it might be worth looking around. They work in just brick fine.

As someone else said, they kick out a ton of dust. A Dyson is
the only vacuum I've found that works with the rate and volume
of dust produced, although the dust will sand-blast the inside
of the dust container.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

Martin Carroll wrote:
About to start first fix electrics on the renovation project and was
wondering about buying a wall chaser to speed things up a bit (probably
neater too!).

House is a mixture of lightweight/concrete blocks in the extension and
brick in the original part.

Toolstation have an SDS atachment http://www.toolstation.com/index.html?
r=a&feature=52907&rr=R20m89054fXX4F9K&gclid=CI715o v545YCFQnmlAodW3dsOw
at £75

Screwfix seem to sell a number of different machines with this one
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/81200/...nders/Erbauer-
ERB125Y-125mm-Wall-Chaser at £99 the cheapest.

Anyone had any experience of using any of these care to comment.

Yup. Have you read:

http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Wall_chaser

The SDS + chisel is a big stepup and improvement over manual chasing. If
you have a drill with a good bit position lock and a sensitive speed
controller you can also be quite neat. However this will create lots of
mess and a fair bit of airborne fine dust (not in the same league as an
angle grinder though!).

The chasers are however very clean (if your vacuum can keep up) and a
good deal faster still (a lightswitch drop in modern plaster would take
about 10 secs with a chaser for the initial cut, and then perhaps
another 30 sec to break out the fillet. With a SDS and chisel on its own
it would be several mins work).

The SDS gouges can be good - but work best in modern plasters. On older
stuff they have a habit of knocking off great swathes of top coat
adjacent to the chase.

I have the Sparky one:

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/pr...ser-230v/path/

The design is a bit of a handful, but it does have the power to cut
fast, and the extraction port is well positioned to catch very nearly
all of the dust.


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John.

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In article ,
(Andrew Gabriel) writes:
I have a tool like the 125mm-Wall-Chaser but different make.
Came from screwfix some years ago. Should be fine for what you
have in mind. They have been available for as little as £60 so
it might be worth looking around. They work in just brick fine.

Actually, £39.99 in ALDI, although they'd run out in
the Dunstable branch. Probably not the world's best quality,
but at that price if it only does the one house rewire, it's
well worth it.

As someone else said, they kick out a ton of dust. A Dyson is
the only vacuum I've found that works with the rate and volume
of dust produced, although the dust will sand-blast the inside
of the dust container.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

In article , Andrew Gabriel
writes
In article ,
(Andrew Gabriel) writes:
I have a tool like the 125mm-Wall-Chaser but different make.
Came from screwfix some years ago. Should be fine for what you
have in mind. They have been available for as little as £60 so
it might be worth looking around. They work in just brick fine.

Actually, £39.99 in ALDI, although they'd run out in
the Dunstable branch. Probably not the world's best quality,
but at that price if it only does the one house rewire, it's
well worth it.

As someone else said, they kick out a ton of dust. A Dyson is
the only vacuum I've found that works with the rate and volume
of dust produced, although the dust will sand-blast the inside
of the dust container.

Having thought about it a bit more I will probably surface mount the
cables, a lot less hassle (and dust). I did this on the last renovation
project without too much hassle.

Martin
--
Martin Carroll